The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation’s and world’s energy challenges through research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and education.
Carnegie Mellon University Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University addresses the world’s most important energy-related challenges by enabling collaborative research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach, entrepreneurship, and education. As one of CMU’s only university-wide institutes, we seek to optimize energy resources, reduce the environmental impacts of energy production and use, and develop breakthrough technologies and solutions that will have meaningful global impact.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon Univer...Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University is focused on developing and demonstrating the technologies, systems and policies needed to accelerate the transition to a sustainable energy future.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation’s and world’s energy challenges through research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and education.
Carnegie Mellon University Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University addresses the world’s most important energy-related challenges by enabling collaborative research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach, entrepreneurship, and education. As one of CMU’s only university-wide institutes, we seek to optimize energy resources, reduce the environmental impacts of energy production and use, and develop breakthrough technologies and solutions that will have meaningful global impact.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon Univer...Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University is focused on developing and demonstrating the technologies, systems and policies needed to accelerate the transition to a sustainable energy future.
BUS 890: Culminating Experience in Strategic Management, FALL 2010
The culminating project is an in-depth case analysis of Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. The analysis includes multiple concepts from the course to help explain the strategies, actions and performance of the company.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon Univer...Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation's and the world's energy challenges including pathways to a low carbon future, smart grid, new materials for energy, shale gas, and building energy efficiency through research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and education.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon Univer...Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation's and the world's energy challenges including pathways to a low carbon future, smart grid, new materials for energy, shale gas, and building energy efficiency through research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and education
Solar technology uptake limitations in ugandaisaiah Eitu
Uganda like most African countries is blessed to have access to abundant natural renewable energy (sunshine), from which clean electricity can be harnessed with the help of solar panel plates. solar technological adoption in Uganda however remains very low despite government positive gesture through tax waiver. The key question this paper asks is ; Why is the uptake of the solar technology still very low in Uganda?
This publication presents a compilation of extended abstracts of VTT’s recent research on energy and eco-efficient built environment. Sustainability as a dominating driver of technology development can also be seen in the R&D portfolio of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. A clear focus of our research for the building sector is sustainable construction, particularly the energy efficiency of the built environment.
Buildings and the whole built environment are in a key role when societies are mitigating climate change and adapting to its consequences. Despite the temporary economic downturn, construction globally remains one of the most significant areas of human activities globally. Due to the urgency of measures related to climate change and the need to provide a proper environment for living and working, a large number of national and international measures have been agreed to guarantee the future development of sustainable built environment for all. Indirectly, this has lead to a need to develop existing and completely new technologies and processes for the built environment with a speed faster than ever and with a more holistic performance metrics than ever.
“Built environment” here refers to buildings and districts as well as the physical networks for water & waste, transport, energy and information. From a technological point of view the built environment is increasingly becoming a holistic “machine” requiring consideration of all the technologies in the system simultaneously. Yet the technologies are only there to serve a purpose. Long-term human needs, like sustainability, are at the end the foundation for all the development.
Market transformation in the energy sector. The implications of battery storage and reducing renewable energy costs to the Australian environment. Presents projections from NREL, DoE, CSIRO, GDF Suez, IRENA and others
How to reach the hard-to-reach (energy users)?Leonardo ENERGY
Energy efficiency is sometimes called "the greatest market failure of all times" - it makes so much sense, is imperative to achieve the energy transition affordably, and yet it remains difficult to achieve the energy efficiency potential that technological and policy innovations promise to deliver. Is this because our technological and policy advances fail to reach all energy users in the same way? We believe that there is a significant percentage of the human population who can be regarded as “hard-to-reach (HTR) energy users”. These are the people policymakers, utility programme managers and research experts often struggle to engage with when designing and rolling out technological and behavioural interventions. Their barriers and needs are different to those "lower hanging fruit" energy users we understand well. This HTR audience segment becomes even larger once we expand from hard-to-reach individuals and groups in the residential, to those in the non-residential, particularly the commercial sector – especially if we look across all fuels and energy services, including mobility. This, potentially very large energy user segment is the focus of this new research collaboration and we present our first findings in this webinar.
BUS 890: Culminating Experience in Strategic Management, FALL 2010
The culminating project is an in-depth case analysis of Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. The analysis includes multiple concepts from the course to help explain the strategies, actions and performance of the company.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon Univer...Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation's and the world's energy challenges including pathways to a low carbon future, smart grid, new materials for energy, shale gas, and building energy efficiency through research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and education.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon Univer...Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation's and the world's energy challenges including pathways to a low carbon future, smart grid, new materials for energy, shale gas, and building energy efficiency through research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and education
Solar technology uptake limitations in ugandaisaiah Eitu
Uganda like most African countries is blessed to have access to abundant natural renewable energy (sunshine), from which clean electricity can be harnessed with the help of solar panel plates. solar technological adoption in Uganda however remains very low despite government positive gesture through tax waiver. The key question this paper asks is ; Why is the uptake of the solar technology still very low in Uganda?
This publication presents a compilation of extended abstracts of VTT’s recent research on energy and eco-efficient built environment. Sustainability as a dominating driver of technology development can also be seen in the R&D portfolio of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. A clear focus of our research for the building sector is sustainable construction, particularly the energy efficiency of the built environment.
Buildings and the whole built environment are in a key role when societies are mitigating climate change and adapting to its consequences. Despite the temporary economic downturn, construction globally remains one of the most significant areas of human activities globally. Due to the urgency of measures related to climate change and the need to provide a proper environment for living and working, a large number of national and international measures have been agreed to guarantee the future development of sustainable built environment for all. Indirectly, this has lead to a need to develop existing and completely new technologies and processes for the built environment with a speed faster than ever and with a more holistic performance metrics than ever.
“Built environment” here refers to buildings and districts as well as the physical networks for water & waste, transport, energy and information. From a technological point of view the built environment is increasingly becoming a holistic “machine” requiring consideration of all the technologies in the system simultaneously. Yet the technologies are only there to serve a purpose. Long-term human needs, like sustainability, are at the end the foundation for all the development.
Market transformation in the energy sector. The implications of battery storage and reducing renewable energy costs to the Australian environment. Presents projections from NREL, DoE, CSIRO, GDF Suez, IRENA and others
How to reach the hard-to-reach (energy users)?Leonardo ENERGY
Energy efficiency is sometimes called "the greatest market failure of all times" - it makes so much sense, is imperative to achieve the energy transition affordably, and yet it remains difficult to achieve the energy efficiency potential that technological and policy innovations promise to deliver. Is this because our technological and policy advances fail to reach all energy users in the same way? We believe that there is a significant percentage of the human population who can be regarded as “hard-to-reach (HTR) energy users”. These are the people policymakers, utility programme managers and research experts often struggle to engage with when designing and rolling out technological and behavioural interventions. Their barriers and needs are different to those "lower hanging fruit" energy users we understand well. This HTR audience segment becomes even larger once we expand from hard-to-reach individuals and groups in the residential, to those in the non-residential, particularly the commercial sector – especially if we look across all fuels and energy services, including mobility. This, potentially very large energy user segment is the focus of this new research collaboration and we present our first findings in this webinar.
The Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation's and the world's energy challenges including pathways to a low carbon future, smart grid, new materials for energy, shale gas, and building energy efficiency through research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and education.
Renewable Energy Education and Awareness at the University Level in PakistanUmair Shahzad
The rapid increase in the enrolment of students at higher education level in Pakistan in recent years is
expected to grow further. It is very essential for universities to update the educational curriculum according to latest
technological needs .Energy is a significant issue of Pakistan. The country has been facing severe crisis of energy since last
two decades. Availability of educated and trained personnel is important for successfully implementing any plans for
alternative energy sources. Owing to rising concerns about fossil fuel depletion and global climate change, there is an
imperative need for renewable energy experts and specialists, who are able to design, install and maintain these systems.
Most of the engineers are not even aware of the working technology of renewable energy systems, therefore, it is essential to
devise and introduce new courses and curriculum which prepare engineers of the future to work with renewables to utilize
alternative energy systems and contribute their part in putting an end to energy crisis. Gone are the days when miniscule
knowledge of renewable energy was sufficient for students. In today’s era, it is crucial to include courses which cover the
domains of technology, resources, design, implementation, economics, policies and applications of renewable energy
systems. At present, there is no strong foundation at various universities to provide education and awareness regarding
renewable energy and its long term benefits. The role of internet is very vital regarding renewable energy education and
awareness. This paper presents the importance of imparting renewable energy education to students at university level in
Pakistan.
Bunaken Island | Nov-15 | Smart Villages Findings and ProgressSmart Villages
By John Holmes
Off-grid electrification for development of small islands represents a number of unique challenges under the broad category of rural electrification. Small, off-grid island communities are particularly vulnerable to diesel price fluctuations and natural disasters, and thus, enhancing resilience through more sustainable and cheaper energy technologies should be a key priority. Financing the transition to these technologies – usually photovoltaic, micro-hydro or sometimes wind – is an essential hurdle to overcome. Once electricity systems are in place it is equally important that they are sustained in the longer term with effective arrangements for operation and maintenance, cost recovery etc. Related to this, is the productive use of the energy provided to increase islander incomes.
The workshop on Bunaken Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia from 3 to 5 November 2015, organised by the Smart Villages Initiative in collaboration with Kopernik, will explore these issues and develop recommendations for policy makers, development agencies and other stakeholders in energy provision to island communities.
More info: http://e4sv.org/events/off-grid-islands-electricity-workshop/
Powerful forces, including demographics, globalization, and rapidly evolving technologies are driving profound changes in engineering professionals in our society. The changing workforce and technology needs of a global knowledge-driven economy are dramatically changing the nature of engineering practices and education, demanding far broader skills than simply the mastery of scientific and technological disciplines. Over the last decades, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and regional state colleges have joined forces with many major research universities to embrace innovation and entrepreneurship as critical to their mission and role in their communities. The leaderships at HBCUs recognize the importance of innovation, commercialization, entrepreneurship, and the creation of economic value for their communities, especially for these institutions with land-grant missions.
University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) is a land-grant institution with 270 years rich history and legacy. Today, UMES has been reclassified as a Carnegie Doctoral Research (Moderate) University by the Carnegie Foundation and is on its request to become a pioneering HBCU in promoting innovation, commercialization and entrepreneurship for academic eminence. The Engineering, Business, and Technology programs at the School of Business and Technology at UMES play critical roles in advancing this new mission. To achieve this, we at the School of Business and Technology have developed roadmaps and strategies in four perspectives: We promote student innovation and entrepreneurship; we encourage faculty innovation and entrepreneurship; we actively foster collaboration in university and industry, and we engage with regional and local economic development efforts. In this seminar talk, I will elaborate on the efforts and initiatives we have developed with the goal of translating creativity on campus into business opportunity.
Development of Smart Grid Interoperability for Energy Efficiency Systemsijtsrd
The power grid is at present undergoing a chronological transform of state from the conventional structure where a utility owns the generation, transmission and distribution services into an integrated smart grid in a monopolistic market which introduce consumers as active players in managing and controlling the power. This report provides development of smart grid interoperability for energy efficiency. A systematic approach for developing smart grid interoperability tests was adopted by analyzing two houses, two industries and two institutions while looking at the analysis of their active power. This analysis of active power gives the exact idea to know the range of maximum permissible loads that can be connected to their relevant bus bars. This project presents the change in the value of Active Power with varying load angle in context with small signal analysis using wind, solar and generator grid . The result obtained showed that, consumers can then choose the cheapest energy to be consumed at convenience with a major focus on the institutional results which showed that, with either solar or wind they can have constant supply for a period between 8am to 10pm on daily basis, since their major operations are done in the day. Oluwabunmi Bilikisu Owolabi "Development of Smart Grid Interoperability for Energy Efficiency Systems" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-6 | Issue-7 , December 2022, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd52487.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/electrical-engineering/52487/development-of-smart-grid-interoperability-for-energy-efficiency-systems/oluwabunmi-bilikisu-owolabi
2. QESST is an Engineering Research Center sponsored by the National Science
Foundation (NSF) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that is focused on advancing
photovoltaic science, technology and education in order to address one of society’s
greatest challenges: transforming electricity generation to sustainably meet the growing
demand for energy. Photovoltaics (PV) leverages one of the 20th century’s greatest
scientific advances—quantum mechanics—to realize electricity generation that is
fundamentally different than other electricity generation, with no moving parts, high
reliability and high efficiency.
Solar energy has the unique capacity to meet the entire world energy demand, and at
current growth rates, photovoltaics will have sufficient capacity to meet the entire new
U.S. electricity demand within five to 10 years.
QESST is developing new photovoltaic technologies that address the critical barriers to
realizing transformation of electricity generation. An interdisciplinary team—consisting
of faculty and researchers from multiple universities, scientists and leaders from world-
renowned companies and leading PV entrepreneurs—is building a strategic partnership
to generate innovative solutions to sustainable electricity generation that will:
• realize continuous improvements in performance (efficiency), cost and
manufacturability of PV technologies through focused research on the underlying
material science, energy conversion processes and advanced manufacturing
approaches
• reinvigorate interest in science and engineering education by using renewable
energy as an inspirational example that challenges students’ intellectual growth
and technical skill, and allows students to develop creative solutions and solve
important societal problems
• position the American PV industry to lead through innovation and stimulate
economic development in the expected trillion dollar PV market
The impact of QESST
For the past decade, the PV industry has grown at an average compound annual
growth rate of nearly 40 percent. At this growth rate, the PV industry will enable all new
global demand for electricity in the next 10 years. Sustaining such growth rates is an
enormous challenge—but one that has been met by other semiconductor industries.
The goal of the QESST ERC is to develop a technology path for photovoltaics that has
significant impact and supports continued rapid growth by allowing existing commercial
photovoltaic technologies to circumvent trade-offs in performance and cost and enable
commercial photovoltaics to exceed the goals envisioned today.
the qesst
3. There is no one “silver bullet” material or revolutionary device that will transform
the existing electricity generation system, making it sustainable and cost-effective.
The QESST approach integrates technology and participants and creates a bridge
between disconnected PV technologies and research and development efforts. We
have mapped a path of interwoven technology and process advancements that will
result in a continuously expanding implementation of revolutionary new approaches
to enhance performance, reduce cost, and enable new functionality that will:
• lead to disruptive breakthroughs in the performance and cost of sustainable
energy through advances in material sciences particularly relating to surfaces,
interfaces and defects, photonics, energy conversion processes, advanced
nanofabrication and characterization technologies and new multifunctional
energy conversion devices
• enable the PV industry to continue to expand production by developing
technologies that support the scale-up of new devices into large-scale
manufacturing
• introduce readily scalable, highly efficient, transformative PV technologies that
circumvent cost/performance trade-offs and maintain compatibility with PV
manufacturing techniques
an evolutionary path
to revolutionary devices
4. QESST has attracted more than 40 solar energy companies that span the spectrum
from basic materials, semiconductor manufacturing and PV production to energy
system installation firms and utilities; from start-up and high-growth PV firms to
established large companies moving into the PV industry. The QESST Industrial
Affiliate program seeks to maximize the impact of university research and education
through entrepreneurship and innovation that speeds the translation of research
results into commercialization.
Our unique structure and composition including a large base of industrial members,
an academic team that values and appreciates technology transfer, a wide-ranging
education and outreach program, and excellent facilities and infrastructure support
provides an ideal platform to stimulate economic development. All QESST university
campuses partner to drive intellectual property (IP) licensing, technology transition
and startup/spinoff company formation and student ventures into the innovation
cycle. Multiple venture capitalists, industry analysts and economic and small business
development organizations work with QESST as innovation partners.
industry and innovation
QESST is motivated to answer how the PV industry can simultaneously optimize
environmental quality, economic development and social advancement. This
sustainability awareness provides strategic guidance to our research and educational
activities. The cross-cutting theme of sustainability in QESST includes:
• mass-flow and industrial ecology analyses to address the environmental
implications of new technology and approaches we develop
• development of economic models to understand the lifecycle cost of photovoltaic
energy systems
• real-time technology assessment and anticipatory governance to investigate the
role of policy and governance on future growth of the PV industry
sustainability
5. QESST is headquartered in state-of-the-art laboratory, clean room and office space
in the MacroTechnology Works building at the ASU Research Park—a venue ideally
suited for leading a collaborative network of industry-relevant research. To support
QESST, ASU and partners have invested in a full suite of equipment for fabrication
and characterization of silicon, III-V, nano-structured and thin-film devices as well
as cell and module pilot manufacturing lines. QESST leverages cyber-infrastructure
to empower effective information sharing between all participants—universities,
industrial partners and external stakeholders.
Through a wide range of programs—university education, public engagement and
outreach, pre-college curriculum development, teacher training, participation with
policymakers and external stakeholders—QESST aims to use sustainable energy
as a vehicle to revitalize the popular perception of science and engineering. QESST
broadens participation in science and engineering through its support of community-
based projects that are well connected to our students’ social contexts.
QESST leverages education at all levels to engage students and develop a trained
workforce capable of advancing the fast-paced solar industry. QESST conducts
educational research to determine the best practices for training this workforce,
and develops programs and curriculum which utilize those best practices. QESST
students, in-service teachers and youth have the opportunity to make meaningful
connections with national and international experts in PV. QESST has built an
international collaboration with leading universities in Asia, Europe and Australia.
These partnerships enable valuable interactions for our students and allow wide
dissemination of our findings on the best practices for training students in renewable
energy, PV and semiconductor research.
facilities
education and outreach
For more information visit our website at www.qesst.org
QESST main labs and office spacechristiana honsberg, QESST director
6. P.O. Box 879309 Tempe, Arizona 85287-9309
QESST is revolutionizing energy for the world.
Electricity is the lifeblood of modern society—powering everything from
cities to pacemakers—and the demand for electricity continues to grow.
The electricity generation system faces challenges: harmful environmental
impacts; the lack of access to electricity for over one-quarter of the world’s
population; threats to national security; resource-supply problems; and
difficulty in powering autonomous applications. A new system for supplying
electricity is needed. QESST is transforming the existing electricity generation
system, making it sustainable, ubiquitous and multifunctional by developing
photovoltaic and quantum energy converters that fundamentally alter how
energy is used.