A Clean, Green Energy Future: A Closer Look at ISE’s Current Projects
A recent expose in Questrom School of Business Magazine, Everett, explores the intersection of alternative energy and business. Featuring the Institute for Sustainable Energy, Everett takes a close up look at several of the Institute’s current projects, including how the City of Boston can become carbon neutral by 2050. Read the full article here.
DC welcomes BU Institute for Sustainable Energy
On Tuesday, April 25th the Institute for Sustainable Energy and BU’s Federal Relations office co-hosted a Washington DC reception overlooking the nation’s Capitol to introduce policymakers to ISE. Boston University President Robert A. Brown, ISE Director Peter Fox-Penner, and ISE Senior Fellow Dorothy Robyn addressed more than 65 federal, private sector, and academic officials gathered […]
Two Reports Analyzing US Department of Defense and Federal Energy Management Co-Authored by ISE Senior Fellow, Dorothy Robyn
Dr. Dorothy Robyn, a Washington DC-based ISE Non-Resident Senior Fellow, specializes in energy resiliency of US military bases. She is the former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations and Environment where she oversaw $850 billion portfolio that included 300,00 buildings and 28 million acres of land. Most recently, Dr. Robyn served as the Commissioner […]
Seminar Presentations
Energy Storage Brett A. Perlman Hurry or Wait Dean Murphy and Jurgen Weiss
John Helveston, ISE Post-Doc, wins Best Dissertation Award
ISE Post-doc John Helveston will be recognized at the annual conference of the Industry Studies Association (ISA) for his dissertation work, which was selected for the 2016 best dissertation award. Helveston’s dissertation, “Development and Adoption of Plug-in Electric Vehicles in China: Markets, Policy, and Innovation,” examines the rise of electric vehicles in China and how the government and […]
Professor Philip Hanser’s Off-Grid PV research published in Utilities Policy Journal
ISE affiliated faculty member Philip Hanser has published, along with associates in the Brattle Group, an article analyzing the technical and economic feasibility of moving households off the grid through photovoltaic (PV) solar. The article will appear in the Utilities Policy journal. Given recent technological advances in solar energy and large-scale battery storage, as well […]
Policy and the emergence of driverless, shared, and electric vehicles
On November 15-16, 2016, Postdoctoral Associate John Helveston represented the ISE at the “3 Revolutions Conference” hosted by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis (ITS-Davis). The conference brought together 40 academic, government, industry, and policy experts and stake holders to consider the relevant policies for steering the emerging transportation revolutions […]
New Sensors for Smart Lighting
Electrical and computer engineering professor and ISE Affiliate, Thomas Little, is part of a team from the Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications Engineering Research Center (LESA ERC)—a combined effort of Boston University, the University of New Mexico, Thomas Jefferson University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) faculty and graduate students—motion sensor lights and energy efficiency. Funded […]
Just Add Water
Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE) has received funding from the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation (CGMF) to identify how Texan municipal water agencies in urban environments can transition to an Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) model. Population growth, increasing demand for water in an area that is already water stressed, and aging infrastructure […]
New whitepaper: Hurry or Wait?
Jürgen Weiss and Dean Murphy released a whitepaper with the Brattle Group on the national of energy switching. Climate change risk will likely require the decarbonization of our economy, in large part through investment in renewable generation. Since technological progress will likely lower the future cost of renewable generation capacity, however, delaying decarbonization could save money by benefitting […]