Agenda
Main content start
DOE University Consortium EARNEST Kickoff
January 30, 2024
Agenda
| 09:00am - 09:30am | Opening Remarks |
| Roland Horne, Interim Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University | |
| Arun Majumdar, Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability | |
| Kevin Lynn, Director, Grid Modernization, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Office, U.S. Department of Energy | |
| 09:30am - 09:45am | Introducing EARNEST |
| Inês Azevedo, Associate Professor, Energy Science & Engineering, Stanford | |
| 09:45am - 10:30am | Plenary Session: Co-creation of Knowledge of Traditionally Underrepresented Communities |
| Moderator: Holmes Hummel, Managing Director, Energy Equity & Just Transitions, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford | |
| Chad Nordlum, Energy Project Manager, Native Village of Kotzebue, Alaska | |
| Lisa Redsteer, Engineering Outreach Coordinator, Northwest Indian College | |
| Mari Rose Taruc, Energy Justice Director, California Environmental Justice Alliance | |
| Michael Wara, Director, Climate and Energy Policy Program, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University | |
| 10:30am - 10:50am | Break |
| 10:50am - 11:35am | Plenary Session: How Can the University Research Ecosystems Support the Federal Goals for Decarbonization, Resilience, Affordability, and Energy Justice? |
| Moderator: Sally Benson, Professor, Energy Science & Engineering, Stanford University | |
| Tracey LeBeau, Administrator and Chief Executive Officer, Western Area Power Administration | |
| Dan Reicher, Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Woods Institute for Environment, Stanford University | |
| Gene Rodrigues, Assistant Secretary for Electricity, Office of Electricity, U.S. Department of Energy | |
| 11:35am - 12:20pm | Plenary Session: State Regulatory Challenges and Policy Solutions |
| Moderator: David Victor, Professor; Peter Cowhey Center on Global Transformation Chair in Innovation and Public Policy, U.C.-San Diego | |
| Alice Busching Reynolds, President, California Public Utilities Commission | |
| Joshua Byrnes, Board Member, Iowa Utilities Board | |
| 12:20pm - 1:20pm | Lunch & Roundtable Discussion: US-Mexico-Canada Energy Collaboration Opportunities |
| Moderator: Kevin Lynn, Director, Grid Modernization, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Office, U.S. Department of Energy | |
| Eugene Tso, Deputy Director for U.S. and Americas in the Bilateral Affairs Division, Natural Resources, Canada | |
| Fedrico López de Alba, Acting Manager, Environmental Protection, Electricity Commission, Mexico | |
| 1:20pm -1:40pm | Remarks: Steven Chu, Professor, Molecular & Cellular Physiology and Energy Science & Engineering, Stanford University |
| 1:40pm - 2:20pm | Technical Session 1: Solutions for Remote or Isolated Grids |
| Moderator: Mani Venkatasubramanian, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Washington State University | |
| Claudio Cañizares, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy, University of Waterloo | |
| Quyhn Tran, Power Systems Engineer, University of Hawaii | |
| Michelle Wilber, Research Engineer, University of Alaska Fairbanks | |
| 2:20pm - 3:00pm | Technical Session 2: Challenges and Solutions for Interconnected Systems |
| Moderator: Inês Azevedo, Associate Professor, Energy Science & Engineering, Stanford University | |
| Saurabh Amin, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, MIT | |
| Nils Angliviel de La Beaumelle, Ph.D. Student, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University | |
| Kamran Tehranchi, Ph.D. Student, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Stanford University | |
| Jean-Paul Watson, Senior Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Technical Session 3: Challenges and Solutions for Cities |
| Moderator: Venkat Banunarayanan, Vice President, Integrated Grid, NRECA | |
| Yilu Liu, Governor’s Chair for Power Electronics, University of Tennessee-Knoxville | |
| Rajeev Ram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Parth Vaishnav, Assistant Professor, Sustainable Systems, Climate + Energy, University of Michigan | |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm | Break |
| 4:00pm - 4:50pm | Roundtable Discussion: Expected Fundamental Research Contributions from EARNEST |
| Moderator: Liang Min, Managing Director, Bits & Watts Initiative, Stanford University | |
| Jeff Dagle, Chief Electrical Engineer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
| Priya Donti, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, MIT; Co-founder and Chair, Climate Change AI | |
| James McCalley, Professor, Electrical Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering, Iowa State University | |
| Ram Rajagopal, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University | |
| 4:50pm - 5:00pm | Closing Remarks |
| Inês Azevedo | |
| Liang Min | |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Networking Reception and Research Poster Session |