URAP

Daniel Kammen - Professor, Energy and Resources

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

California has committed to fully eliminate carbon pollution from electricity by the year 2045, by passing landmark state bill SB100. Alongside, several bills have been passed to move towards deep emissions reduction in all sectors, including buildings and transport. Decarbonizing existing buildings (around 13 million residential homes along with large...

Daniel Kammen - Professor, Energy and Resources

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

The technological basis for launching and operating orbiting solar generating plants is rapidly improving due to decreases in the cost of rocket launches ($/kg of payload), and improvements in durable thin-film solar and microwave beaming technology. The project is to build data-sets to inform a series of projections...

Daniel Kammen - Professor, Energy and Resources

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The purpose of this project is to collect, analyze and visualize data on energy, transportation, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, GHG drivers, household carbon footprints, climate action planning, and equity into a single, data-driven climate action portal for all California cities and communities...

Daniel Kammen - Professor, Energy and Resources

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

This project focuses on assessment of energy system resources, GHG balances and design of regional opportunities for expansion of distributed generation and micro grids in urban-agriculture interface zones across regions in California and regions with similar geo-physical resources and socio-economic features. The project will use Geographic Information...