Date: 15 April 2019Time: 12:00pmLocation: Baker Hall 129, Conference Room Speaker: Don MacKenzie Topic: How might automated vehicles affect energy use and emissions? Abstract: Early research has suggested that automated vehicles (AVs) could have myriad direct and indirect effects on travel demand, energy consumption, and emissions from transportation, with the net impacts highly uncertain. AVs could […]
Date: 8 April 2019Time: 12:00pmLocation: Wean Hall 3701Speaker: James KellowayTopic: Machine Learning for Solar Forecasting in the National Grid ESO Abstract: The National Grid ESO has publicly committed to being capable of running the Great Britain electricity grid fossil fuel free by 2025. To do this, we will need to embrace new methods and new […]
Date: 1 March 2019 Time: 12:00pm Location: Baker Hall 129, Conference Room Speaker: Teevrat Garg Topic: The Local Environmental Costs and Economic Benefits of India’s Coal-Fired Power Plants Abstract: Developing countries characterized by increasing electricity demand face a dilemma: fossil-fuel fired electricity production is cheap and reliable yet has substantial environmental consequences. This paper uses […]
PhD student Priya L. Donti’s workshop paper on “Inverse Optimal Power Flow: Assessing the Vulnerability of Power Grid Data” was recognized recently as a highlighted paper at the AI for Social Good Workshop at NeurIPS2018. One of the workshop organizers also tweeted about it here: Tweet
Date: 11 December 2018 Time: 12:00pm Location: Baker Hall 129 Speaker: Valerie Karplus Topic: Did scrubbing the government clean up the air? Polluter responses to China’s anticorruption campaign Abstract: We ask whether or not investigating city mayors during a nationwide anticorruption campaign in China affected the concentration of sulfur dioxide (SO2), a major air pollutant, emitted […]
In this video, Carnegie Mellon University Professor Neil Donahue explains what we need to know about climate change. Using animation, this video shows what happens to carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in a way that is easy to understand.
In the article A fork in the road for U.S. power, Ben Geman of Axios discusses the nationwide trend toward a lower-carbon mix, while the Trump administration is preparing steps that would halt coal’s decline. The focus of the article resides heavily with the paper Assessing the evolution of power sector carbon intensity in the United States, by Carnegie […]
Have you ever wondered how the climate has changed from your grandmother’s birth, to when your children will retire? PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering student Greg Schivley at Carnegie Mellon University has come up with a great, easy to use tool to answer this question. In the app Climate change and life events you simply select a […]
In the article by David Roberts of Vox.com, Roberts discusses the secret behind energy storage in the US. “The way it’s typically used in the US today, it enables more fossil-fueled energy and higher carbon emissions. Emissions are higher today than they would have been if no storage had ever been deployed in the US.” In his article, he […]
In the latest paper Estimation of the year-on-year volatility and unpredictability of the United States energy system by Carnegie Mellon University PhD student Evan Sherwin, CEO of Lumina Decision Systems and Adjust Faculty Max Henrion, and Inês Azevedo, the authors discuss the increased volatility and unpredictability over the past decade in energy consumption, supply, and prices. […]
