When: Monday, November 7, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Where: Koelbel 255
Speaker: Adam Reed
When: Monday, November 7, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Where: Koelbel 255
Speaker: Adam Reed
We will discuss global energy justice in our last Monthly Meeting of the semester.
When: Monday, December 5, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Where: Koelbel 255
Speaker: Dr. Lakshman Guruswamy
BERC China Focus is pleased to have hosted monthly Coffee Chats with researchers and professionals in the field of energy and environment this semester. In this series of three Coffee Chats, students discussed green technologies, research experiences, and career decisions with Yaosen Tian from LBNL, Professor Baoxia Mi from UC Berkeley’s Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept., as well as Junyi Du and Sue Chau from the Chinese American Environmental Professionals Association (CAEPA).
Join us for an exciting, in-depth presentation of emerging cleantech solutions from Caltech, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. For the first time in C2M’s seven-year history, all participants are existing start-ups, including five from Cyclotron Road.
Following the presentations, we invite you to stay for a networking reception with faculty, students, scientists, and energy industry professionals.
Cross-Posted from the Berkeley Science Review. Original article.
Authors: Daniel Aranki, Roel Dobbe, Jaime F. Fisac, and Cathy Wu
Cobalt is the most expensive raw material used for building lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries are used in smartphones, laptops, and electric vehicles. In the past year, the price of refined cobalt has been above $20k. Also, in the past 5 years the demand for this element from the battery sector has tripled and is projected to double again by 2020.
This past weekend, nearly 40 participants from UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, and the Bay Area gathered for Brave New Hacks, the 4th annual BERC Cleanweb Hackathon. The event was a huge success, and 7 teams made pitches at the end of the 24-hour event in front of a panel of judges, including Kate Knox of Advanced Microgrid Solutions, Jackie Weidman of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute, and Sam Saxena of LBNL.
Energy Week 2016 was the biggest one yet, with three action-packed days of events, starting with a keynote address from Tom Steyer, featuring 2 panels on energy entrepreneurship, a design thinking workshop, and a second keynote address from cleantech investor Ira Ehrenpreis.Our journal team has a full spread of coverage on
This year, one of our goals at the SEC has been to have continuous engagement with the energy community at Stanford, especially outside of our main events like Energy Week and Energy 360. As a result, we’ve had members and officers take part in some very interesting events, and get the opportunity to meet some truly amazing people who are working in energy and sustainability.
Given recent events, including the election of a climate denier and coal buff as President, Thanksgiving conversations might be even more awkward than normal. Luckily, us folks at the SEC have your back – we’ve compiled a list of all the great energy news that will both reassure you for the future and make your dinnertime conversations more fun. Check it out below, and happy thanksgiving!
The Cool Stuff
On November 2, 2016, BERC held its annual 2016 Resources Roundtable, featuring the Water-Energy Nexus. Attracting over 100 UC Berkeley students, faculty, and professionals, the conversations shed light on current and anticipated challenges to the water-energy nexus, as well as steps towards achieving a sustainable future in a world with growing population and resource demands.
Every small contribution counts! Don’t forget to check your social media feeds and share our posts with your network to help us promote our amazing community.
This year BERC will participate in the annual Big Give campaign organized by UC Berkeley. This year’s theme is the “Berkeley effect”: The butterfly effect explains change. The Berkeley Effect changes the world. If a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas, then surely the generous hearts, good deeds, and great leaps of UC Berkeley can spark positive change all over the globe.
By Center for Environmental Public Policy
The Paris Climate Agreement covers 98 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Its adoption in 2015 at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and recent ratification create an unprecedented opportunity to address our most pressing environmental threat. Seizing that opportunity demands mobilizing trillions of dollars in public and private finance to implement the transformational climate policies required to achieve the Paris goals and sustain our communities and economies.
What is the cost of scientific misunderstanding? How many lives are lost as a result of false assumptions and inaccurate data representation? More importantly, what can I do, as a scientist, to address these misunderstandings and save those lives?
An example heat pump water heater and an airy bathroom. Source: http://tinyurl.com/z7csmw4
In the past year, Venture capital (VC) funding for early-stage cleantech companies seems to have mostly dried up. The good news is that other cleantech investors are stepping up to fill the void- including our own University. But before diving into the details of Berkeley’s Cleantech University Prize, let’s explore the VC cleantech funding issue further.
For two weeks this August, students from around the world gathered at UC Berkeley for the first ever Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp. The goal? To train the next generation of nuclear professionals to generate ideas and solve problems with significant real-world impact.
For the first time, GTM organized a one-day summit exclusively dedicated to solar software.
Cobalt is the most expensive raw material used for building lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries are used in smartphones, laptops, and electric vehicles. In the past year, the price of refined cobalt has been above $20k. Also, in the past 5 years the demand for this element from the battery sector has tripled and is projected to double again by 2020.
This past weekend, nearly 40 participants from UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, and the Bay Area gathered for Brave New Hacks, the 4th annual BERC Cleanweb Hackathon. The event was a huge success, and 7 teams made pitches at the end of the 24-hour event in front of a panel of judges, including Kate Knox of Advanced Microgrid Solutions, Jackie Weidman of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute, and Sam Saxena of LBNL.
Energy Week 2016 was the biggest one yet, with three action-packed days of events, starting with a keynote address from Tom Steyer, featuring 2 panels on energy entrepreneurship, a design thinking workshop, and a second keynote address from cleantech investor Ira Ehrenpreis.Our journal team has a full spread of coverage on
This year, one of our goals at the SEC has been to have continuous engagement with the energy community at Stanford, especially outside of our main events like Energy Week and Energy 360. As a result, we’ve had members and officers take part in some very interesting events, and get the opportunity to meet some truly amazing people who are working in energy and sustainability.
Given recent events, including the election of a climate denier and coal buff as President, Thanksgiving conversations might be even more awkward than normal. Luckily, us folks at the SEC have your back – we’ve compiled a list of all the great energy news that will both reassure you for the future and make your dinnertime conversations more fun. Check it out below, and happy thanksgiving!
The Cool Stuff
On November 2, 2016, BERC held its annual 2016 Resources Roundtable, featuring the Water-Energy Nexus. Attracting over 100 UC Berkeley students, faculty, and professionals, the conversations shed light on current and anticipated challenges to the water-energy nexus, as well as steps towards achieving a sustainable future in a world with growing population and resource demands.
Every small contribution counts! Don’t forget to check your social media feeds and share our posts with your network to help us promote our amazing community.
This year BERC will participate in the annual Big Give campaign organized by UC Berkeley. This year’s theme is the “Berkeley effect”: The butterfly effect explains change. The Berkeley Effect changes the world. If a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas, then surely the generous hearts, good deeds, and great leaps of UC Berkeley can spark positive change all over the globe.
By Center for Environmental Public Policy
The Paris Climate Agreement covers 98 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Its adoption in 2015 at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and recent ratification create an unprecedented opportunity to address our most pressing environmental threat. Seizing that opportunity demands mobilizing trillions of dollars in public and private finance to implement the transformational climate policies required to achieve the Paris goals and sustain our communities and economies.
What is the cost of scientific misunderstanding? How many lives are lost as a result of false assumptions and inaccurate data representation? More importantly, what can I do, as a scientist, to address these misunderstandings and save those lives?
An example heat pump water heater and an airy bathroom. Source: http://tinyurl.com/z7csmw4
In the past year, Venture capital (VC) funding for early-stage cleantech companies seems to have mostly dried up. The good news is that other cleantech investors are stepping up to fill the void- including our own University. But before diving into the details of Berkeley’s Cleantech University Prize, let’s explore the VC cleantech funding issue further.
For two weeks this August, students from around the world gathered at UC Berkeley for the first ever Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp. The goal? To train the next generation of nuclear professionals to generate ideas and solve problems with significant real-world impact.
For the first time, GTM organized a one-day summit exclusively dedicated to solar software.
Every two years, the energy efficiency community gathers on the beaches of Pacific Grove, CA to attend the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy Summer Study. This community ranges from engineers concerned with the most narrow technical details of hot water heating, to data scientists that seek to tease out new savings opportunities from enormous smart meter datasets.
Major/Field of Study
MBA, Haas School of Business
Tell us what you’re working on!
Product Management in the Mobile Location Based Services field for a major Tier 1 Telecommunication carrier in the US.
What’s next for you?
Management Consulting
When I learned of the hiring of Patti Poppe as CEO of PG&E, my thoughts went to the impressive number of women leading major utilities throughout the country. I wondered why the utility industry, rather than tech or healthcare, seems to have such a tremendous record of success for female executives. And with the annual BERC Women in Energy event fast approaching (it’s on Thursday 12/10 at 6pm PT!), I figured now is the time to educate myself.
Among the numerous changes to society caused by COVID-19, an experiment is playing out in city streets and sidewalks across America. Following lockdowns, as cities began exploring how to reopen businesses safely, a sudden need for policies and procedures to expedite access to outdoor spaces emerged.
As battery prices continue to fall and the penetration of variable wind and solar generation rises, power plant developers are increasingly combining wind and solar projects with on-site batteries, creating “hybrid” power plants. I had the opportunity to lead a research effort up at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab which outlines the drivers of the new trend while discussing options for integrating the new technologies onto the grid.
A solar panels are warranted to perform their best for 25 years. So because the first major wave of solar panel installation was around 2010, the United States has about 15 years before solar panel recycling becomes a major issue. However, a surge in PV panel waste is coming and it pays to prepare. By 2050, there will be ten-million tons of PV waste volume in North America
Luckily, much of the materials in silicon and thin-film panels can be recycled,
Each year BERC hosts our flagship fall event, Resource Symposium, a half-day event that brings together professionals, policymakers, and academics on critical resource-related topics.
Spring Break is a great time to relax, spend time with family, or travel. For me, Spring Break was the perfect opportunity to attend the ICEPAG 2019 Microgrid Global Summit. The International Colloquium on Environmentally Preferred Advanced Power Generation (ICEPAG) is an annual clean energy conference presented by the Advanced Power and Energy Program (APEP) at UC Irvine. With a focus on microgrids, ICEPAG invites professionals in both academia and industry to share their cutting-edge developments.
Marcus Lehmann
Current position: Co-founder & CEO, CalWave Power Technologies Inc.
Cal Affiliation: Visiting Research Student, Mechanical Engineering (2012-2016)
BERC continues to take the world by storm, racking up double wins at UCLA's Energy Case Challenges Competition last month!
Check out the Haas blog link for more information and congratulations to Sid Mullick, Cici Saekow, Mark Sheiness, Kylie Sale, William Lynn (from Edison International/Southern California Edison), Bree Soares, Kate Tomlinson, Joyce Yao, Deborah Tan, and Nick Matcheck, all Haas MBA 20.
Zero waste, recycling and the environmental impacts of our built environment fueled debate at this year's installment of BERC's Resources Roundtable, drawing decisionmakers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and private waste management.
So, you’ve got a great idea for turning your hard-tech research into a product or service. Great. But no matter how miraculous your discovery sounds, it cannot be turned into a viable commercial venture unless it can be scaled to meet the demand of a target market, and then manufactured and sold at a price that both sustains your business and meets your customer’s requirements for price (what they pay) and value (what they get). You have to obey the laws of capitalism!
On October 4, UC Berkeley and BERC hosted the 4th annual Smogathon highlighting the latest innovative air pollution solutions. The event was first launched in 2015 in Poland as a hackathon and has since evolved into an international competition with hundreds of applications featuring real strategies designed to improve air quality and reduce smog.
Buzz has been growing around electric water and space heaters as potent technology for helping California reach its ambitious greenhouse gas reduction goals. Recent state moves to require solar panels on all new residential homes by 2020 certainly make electric water and space heaters more carbon efficient.
Also helping are more efficient heater models that can produce more than three times more energy than they consume – by sucking up the heat in surrounding air or soils and pumping it into water or air.
This past spring break, 23 students from various majors were selected to participate in Solar Spring Break (SSB), a partnership between UC Berkeley’s Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) and Grid Alternatives (GRID). GRID is a nonprofit solar organization that seeks to bring renewable energy to low-income homeowners, while also providing solar education to volunteers. UC Berkeley SSB teams are traditionally sent out to Oakland neighborhoods, but for the first time this year, a team was also sent to the Salinas Valley.
Thanks to all who came out to BERC Alumni Night 2018!
On the evening of Thursday, April 26, BERC hosted Alumni Night at the offices of WSGR in San Francisco, bringing together alumni, current students and friends of BERC for a night of networking, fun and fundraising.
Are you interested in cutting edge technologies? Consider joining the Cleantech to Market (C2M) course at Haas this fall.
One of the highlights of BERC’s 2018 Energy Summit in February was the recording of the popular Interchange podcast, this one featuring a conversation between host Shayle Kann and Ryan Hanley. Ryan is a renewable energy industry veteran now with Advanced Microgrid Solutions and formerly based at Pacific Gas & Electric Co., Tesla and SolarCity.
Join us in accelerating cleantech innovation! Attend one of C2M’s Info Sessions—Pizza Will be Served!
Thursday, March 8, 12:30 – 1:30 in Haas School of Business Room S489Friday, March 9, 11:00 – 12:00 in Haas School of Business Room S489
Are you interested in how solar power can help rural communities leapfrog dirty power production technologies? Curious whether “clean coal” is an oxymoron? Want to know why California is investing $45 billion to build some (big) water pipes?
BERC’s communities talked about all of these topics last year!
Today, our generation faces some of the most daunting challenges in history; combating global warming, addressing rising energy demand, and ensuring access to energy for all. Dealing with these challenges requires creative and innovative solutions across a multitude of disciplines, and it must involve people from all over the world who are committed to a sustainable future.
Last November, Cleanweb Berkeley hosted it’s 5th annual Hackathon, entitled ‘Whose Hacks? Our Hacks!’. With previous Hackathon winners having been in information technology for flexible demand and shared solar services, we wanted to challenge participants to take on lesser explored subjects at the intersection of data, energy and resources: environmental justice and the politics of climate change. The politics of climate change in the U.S.
By Marie Thompson
What happens when you mix five full-time MBA first years from four different countries and completely different backgrounds with an energy case competition early in the year? For us, the answer was a winning recommendation and a first-place finish.
This is the third of a multi-post blog series by the BERC-Action community. The opinions expressed here do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire BERC organization.
This is the second of a multi-post blog series by the BERC-Action community on President Trump’s proposed budget. The first piece was on the Importance of the EPA. The opinions expressed here do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire BERC organization.
Friday, December 1, 2017
8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Sibley Auditorium
Bechtel Engineering Center
UC Berkeley Campus
Gain unique insights into leading-edge cleantech innovations
This is the first of a multi-post blog series by the BERC-Action community on President Trump’s proposed budget. The opinions expressed here do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire BERC organization.
Check out and register for the Mobile Monitoring Challenge!
https://earth.stanford.edu/…/registration-open-mobile-monit…
Do you want to fight air pollution and win $100,000?
At the beginning of the summer, 30 BERC members had the pleasure of touring the Tesla factory in Fremont. Due to a strict non-disclosure agreement, I cannot include specifics about what we saw. Suffice it to say, Tesla is doing very impressively as an electric car manufacturer.
Hi Energy Enthusiasts!
The Stanford Energy Club has been up to a lot this quarter and we’re going to end with a bang this week as students and faculty transition to finals and summer.
Bloom Energy Tour
Energy Club members had the opportunity to go visit Bloom Energy’s power generation systems which utilize an innovative new fuel cell energy technology with roots in NASA’s Mars program. Students learned a lot and got to see cutting edge research in action
Stanford Energy Club and Law School Mixer
As our energy mix becomes increasingly decarbonized, regulators and grid operators face new challenges from many directions. A growing concern in regions with high penetration of renewables is the risk of uneconomic retirement of flexible capacity, such as natural gas-fired power plants.
Hi Energy Enthusiasts, we’re only two weeks into Spring Quarter, but the SEC has already been up to a lot!
Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) and Stanford Energy Club Happy Hour
We had a great event with YPE where undergraduates and graduates studying energy issues got to meet with recent graduates working in the energy industry at Scotty’s Bar in Palo Alto. It was well attended and everyone made genuine connections while having a great time.
Scientists have confirmed that our climate is changing at an unprecedented rate and in dramatic ways. Our climate is intimately linked to the global economy—from farmers in Vietnam to real estate in Miami, almost every aspect of the global economy is exposed to the effects of climate change.
What better way to end your week than learning about the low-carbon development pathways in Chinese cities?
The energy industry today faces major challenges. How will we develop clean sources of power that don’t pollute our planet, that provide energy access to the millions who don’t have it, and that maintain the reliability and stability of our electric systems? To tackle these complex challenges, we need more innovative solutions from all players in the industry, both new and old. GE is one example of a large, established company that is investing heavily in clean technologies and new digital strategies.
Hey guys! The SEC has been up to a lot of stuff this quarter – here are the highlights:
Networking Night 2017
Jim Rogers, Former CEO of Duke Energy, addresses cleantech professionals, academics and students at the BERC Energy Summit.
“Cleantech opportunity today is as great as it has ever been.”
That’s how Jim Rogers, Former CEO of Duke Energy, kicked off this year’s BERC Energy Summit on Friday, February 24.
The analogy of blockchain to jazz was made more than once at Event Horizon, the first major conference on blockchain technology in the energy industry held last week in Vienna. Decentralized, free-form, and without a conductor, blockchains have the potential to transform incumbent centralized power structures.
Hey Guys! We’ve had a busy quarter so far – take a look at what we’ve been up to over the last few weeks.
Women in Tech + Social Impact
The Stanford Women’s Community Center held their first Work Series panel this quarter on Women in Tech + Social Impact! SEC members Yatian Qu, Lexi Butler, and Jessie Lad were among the panelists, and talked extensively about making an impact in the tech industry!
There will be no seminar-style talk this week, but we will go over all the awesome energy-related opportunities out there for students and preview our upcoming conference! Come chat and have some FREE Cosmos Pizza!
When: Monday, February 6th, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Where: Koelbel 230
The 11th annual BERC Energy Summit is on Thursday and Friday, February 23rd and 24th and I cannot wait! Each year, BERC brings together 600 people from across academia, cleantech, the public sector, and more to connect about energy issues at our flagship conference. Under this year’s theme, The Path Forward: Building our Energy Future together, the BERC Energy Summit will explore how we can advance a clean energy future in today’s divided political climate.
Brooke Maushund, 2016 BERCU Co-President, speaking at the Women Leaders & The Global Transformation Summit at COP22. 11 November 2016. Photo courtesy of Brooke Maushund.
Brooke Maushund, 2016 BERCU Co-President, speaking at the Women Leaders & The Global Transformation Summit at COP22. 11 November 2016. Photo courtesy of Brooke Maushund.
BERC has joined a coalition of student energy clubs from across the country in urging the Trump administration to demonstrate leadership on clean energy, and promote support for an industry critical to future American prosperity. In an open letter addressed directly to President-Elect Trump, student leaders highlight the continued and burgeoning success of the clean energy industry, its importance to American infrastructure and job creation, and its necessity in ensuring the country remains a global economic leader.
Last month, I attended the National Distributed Energy Futures (NDEF) Conference in San Francisco. The focus of this perennial conference is on “building a better electricity grid that unlocks the value of distributed energy resources”. Yeah, that sounds like a lot of buzzwords to me too, but the core concepts explored at the conference were well in line with a lot of BERC members’ interests.
Although it’s only a few days until finals, the SEC has been busy doing cool energy-related things. We highlight some of them here, in our latest activity roundup:
SWEP Hosts Cross-Campus Open House
Solar and Wind Energy Project (SWEP), Stanford Energy Club’s newest community, recently organized a cross-campus energy open house. The event, which was sponsored by the Uytengsu Teaching Center, was designed to expose students to a sampling of clean energy project opportunities at Stanford, and included presentations by Professors John Dabiri and Mark Jacobson, as well as the Stanford Energy Club and Stanford Solar Car Project.
Colvin Wang and a number of other SEC officers attended a panel last week on the future of batteries hosted by the Churchill Club, a technology and business forum based in Silicon Valley. This is his recap of the event.
When: Monday, November 7, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Where: Koelbel 255
Speaker: Adam Reed
We will discuss global energy justice in our last Monthly Meeting of the semester.
When: Monday, December 5, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Where: Koelbel 255
Speaker: Dr. Lakshman Guruswamy
BERC China Focus is pleased to have hosted monthly Coffee Chats with researchers and professionals in the field of energy and environment this semester. In this series of three Coffee Chats, students discussed green technologies, research experiences, and career decisions with Yaosen Tian from LBNL, Professor Baoxia Mi from UC Berkeley’s Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept., as well as Junyi Du and Sue Chau from the Chinese American Environmental Professionals Association (CAEPA).
Join us for an exciting, in-depth presentation of emerging cleantech solutions from Caltech, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. For the first time in C2M’s seven-year history, all participants are existing start-ups, including five from Cyclotron Road.
Following the presentations, we invite you to stay for a networking reception with faculty, students, scientists, and energy industry professionals.
Cross-Posted from the Berkeley Science Review. Original article.
Authors: Daniel Aranki, Roel Dobbe, Jaime F. Fisac, and Cathy Wu
Cobalt is the most expensive raw material used for building lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries are used in smartphones, laptops, and electric vehicles. In the past year, the price of refined cobalt has been above $20k. Also, in the past 5 years the demand for this element from the battery sector has tripled and is projected to double again by 2020.
This past weekend, nearly 40 participants from UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, and the Bay Area gathered for Brave New Hacks, the 4th annual BERC Cleanweb Hackathon. The event was a huge success, and 7 teams made pitches at the end of the 24-hour event in front of a panel of judges, including Kate Knox of Advanced Microgrid Solutions, Jackie Weidman of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute, and Sam Saxena of LBNL.
Energy Week 2016 was the biggest one yet, with three action-packed days of events, starting with a keynote address from Tom Steyer, featuring 2 panels on energy entrepreneurship, a design thinking workshop, and a second keynote address from cleantech investor Ira Ehrenpreis.Our journal team has a full spread of coverage on
This year, one of our goals at the SEC has been to have continuous engagement with the energy community at Stanford, especially outside of our main events like Energy Week and Energy 360. As a result, we’ve had members and officers take part in some very interesting events, and get the opportunity to meet some truly amazing people who are working in energy and sustainability.
Given recent events, including the election of a climate denier and coal buff as President, Thanksgiving conversations might be even more awkward than normal. Luckily, us folks at the SEC have your back – we’ve compiled a list of all the great energy news that will both reassure you for the future and make your dinnertime conversations more fun. Check it out below, and happy thanksgiving!
The Cool Stuff
On November 2, 2016, BERC held its annual 2016 Resources Roundtable, featuring the Water-Energy Nexus. Attracting over 100 UC Berkeley students, faculty, and professionals, the conversations shed light on current and anticipated challenges to the water-energy nexus, as well as steps towards achieving a sustainable future in a world with growing population and resource demands.
Every small contribution counts! Don’t forget to check your social media feeds and share our posts with your network to help us promote our amazing community.
This year BERC will participate in the annual Big Give campaign organized by UC Berkeley. This year’s theme is the “Berkeley effect”: The butterfly effect explains change. The Berkeley Effect changes the world. If a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas, then surely the generous hearts, good deeds, and great leaps of UC Berkeley can spark positive change all over the globe.
By Center for Environmental Public Policy
The Paris Climate Agreement covers 98 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Its adoption in 2015 at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and recent ratification create an unprecedented opportunity to address our most pressing environmental threat. Seizing that opportunity demands mobilizing trillions of dollars in public and private finance to implement the transformational climate policies required to achieve the Paris goals and sustain our communities and economies.
What is the cost of scientific misunderstanding? How many lives are lost as a result of false assumptions and inaccurate data representation? More importantly, what can I do, as a scientist, to address these misunderstandings and save those lives?
An example heat pump water heater and an airy bathroom. Source: http://tinyurl.com/z7csmw4
In the past year, Venture capital (VC) funding for early-stage cleantech companies seems to have mostly dried up. The good news is that other cleantech investors are stepping up to fill the void- including our own University. But before diving into the details of Berkeley’s Cleantech University Prize, let’s explore the VC cleantech funding issue further.
For two weeks this August, students from around the world gathered at UC Berkeley for the first ever Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp. The goal? To train the next generation of nuclear professionals to generate ideas and solve problems with significant real-world impact.
For the first time, GTM organized a one-day summit exclusively dedicated to solar software.
Every two years, the energy efficiency community gathers on the beaches of Pacific Grove, CA to attend the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy Summer Study. This community ranges from engineers concerned with the most narrow technical details of hot water heating, to data scientists that seek to tease out new savings opportunities from enormous smart meter datasets.
Major/Field of Study
MBA, Haas School of Business
Tell us what you’re working on!
Product Management in the Mobile Location Based Services field for a major Tier 1 Telecommunication carrier in the US.
What’s next for you?
Management Consulting