Greetings Friends of CITRIS!!
As gas prices soar and energy politics heat up, the work we're doing here at CITRIS should be encouraging. Leading the way is i4Energy, our collaboration with the California Insitute for Energy and Environment and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. I am pleased to announce that Dr. Carl Blumstein, a close advisor to CITRIS, has agreed to take an office here at Sutardja Dai Hall where he will serve as i4Energy's Managing Director. Read the full letter >> |
Electric Vehicles for Energy Storage to Stabilize Utility Grid
by Gordy Slack
The state's hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles could be efficient and portable sources of energy storage if they can be woven into the grid, says Joel Kubby, Associate Professor of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz. He and his colleagues are working toward that goal using a 25kw, three-wheeled electric vehicle (EV), which Kubby calls "a big battery pack on wheels." With help from a 2011 CITRIS seed grant, they are installing an EV recharge station and developing a smart-battery management interface system to integrate the car into their nanogrid testbed.
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Alberto Cerpa's Optical Turnstile
by Gordy Slack
If building managers could count the occupants of the buildings they run in real time, and if they could track where those occupants go, it would allow for new degrees of efficiency in air conditioning buildings. But if managers could also predict where those occupants would be an hour in advance, it would turn building management on its head, save billions of dollars in energy costs and drive down greenhouse gas emissions. Read the full article >> |
