Research at PEEC

PEEC Funded Energy Efficiency Research

Energy Efficient Behavior Research Projects
Team Title
PI: Brian Knutson
RA: Nik Sawe
RA: Anshuman Sahoo
Experiments with Appliance Choice
PI: Banny Banerjee
PI: Scott Klemmer
PI: Carrie Armel
Summer Energy Feedback Infrastructure Project
PI: Matthew Harding
Paying for Good Deeds: Using Financial Incentives to Achieve Energy Efficiency
PI: Byron Reeves
RA: Carrie Armel
Serious Games and Energy Use Behavior
PI: Greg Walton
PI: Scott Klemmer
RA: David Paunesku
A Randomized Intervention Field Experiment to Reduce Home Energy Use
PI: Sam Chiu
RA: Eric Carr
Measuring Travel/Driving Behavior Modificiation through Real-time Fuel Consumption Information and Incentive/Disincentive Transportation Programs
PI: Thomas Robinson
PI: Carrie Armel
RA: Marilyn Cornelius
Increasing Energy Efficiency Behaviors among Adolescents
PI: Carrie Armel
RA: Adam Bad Wound
RA: Benjamin Dudek
Behavior and Decision-Making Research Related to Energy Efficiency and Climate Change
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Energy Efficient Buildings Research Projects
Team Title
PI: Raymond E. Levitt
PI: Erica L. Plambeck
RA: Dana Gavrieli
Identifying and Mitigating Structural Barriers to Diffusion of Energy-Saving Technologies in the Building Industry
PI: Gianluca Iaccarino
PI: Martin Fischer
RA: Erin Hult
Towards Improved Energy Simulation Tools for Buildings - Improving airflow parameterizations within energy simulation using CFD and building measurements
PI: Martin Fischer
PI: John Haymaker
PI: Vladimir Bazjanac
RA: Victor Gane
Improving Energy Efficiency of High-Rises through Requirements Driven Parametric Modeling
PI: Martin Fischer
RA: Tobias Maile
Santa Clara County Jail-Energy Efficiency Retrofit, Monitoring, and Modeling
PI: Martin Fischer
PI: John Haymaker
RA: Benjamin Welle
An Integrated Conceptual Design Process for Energy, Thermal Comfort, and Daylighting
PI: Curtis Frank
PI: Sarah Billington
Energy-Efficient Biodegradable Foams for Structural Insulated Panels
PI: Martin Fischer
PI: Vladimir Bazjanac, LBNL
RA: Tobias Maile
Conditions for Comparison of Predicted and Measured Operational Performance of HVAC Systems
PI: John Haymaker
RA: Benjamin Welle
Process Integration and Design Optimization in Support of Energy Efficient, High Performance Building Design
PI: Clyde "Bob" Tatum
RA: Brian Gilligan
Increasing the Effectiveness of Investigation, Definition and Execution of Retrofit Projects to Increase Building Energy Efficiency
PI: John Haymaker
PI: Caroline Clevenger
Improving Energy Efficient AEC Decision Making Through Statistical, Model-Based, Search of Multidisciplinary Impacts
PI: Andrea Goldsmith
PI: Stephen Boyd
Faculty: Hamid Aghajan
RA: Itai Katz
RA: Huang Lee
Wireless Sensor Networks Technology for Smart Buildings
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Energy Modeling Research Projects
Team Title
PI: James Sweeney
RA: Pedram Mokrian
Energy Economics and Policy, Stochastic Modeling of Electric Systems
PI: James Sweeney
RA: Jiyong Eom
Incentives and Politics of Utility-Based Energy Efficiency Programs in California
PI: James Sweeney
RA: Brad Powley
Projecting LED Competitiveness
PI: James Sweeney
RA: Anant Sudarshan
Deconstructing the "Rosenfeld Curve"
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Energy Policy Research Projects
Team Title
PI: Lanier Benkard
PI: Mar Reguant
RA: Wichsinee Wibulpolprasert
The Dynamic Effects of the Light Bulb Ban
PI: Lawrence Goulder Evaluating Design Options For Two U.S. Policies To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
PI: Thomas Weber
RA: Naveed Cherazi
Intertemporal Incentives for Carbon Abatement:Combining Market and Nonmarket Forces
PI: Matthew Harding
PI: David Rapson
Appliance Efficiency and Long-Run Energy Demand
PI: James Sweeney
PI: John Weyant
RA: Raj Chowdhary
RA: Raghavender "Raghu" Palavadi Naga
RA: Tien-Tien Chan
RA: Amul Sathe
RA: Joe Westersund
RA: Kenneth Gillingham
RA: Amy Guy
RA: Arianna Lambie
RA: Anant Sudarshan
Contributing to CARB's AB 32 Cost-Effectiveness Determination
PI: Frank Wolak
RA: Shaun McRae
Designing Mechanisms to Involve Financial Demand in Wholesale Electricity Markets
PI: Lawrence Goulder
RA: Ring Zhou
RA: Arthur van Benthem
RA: Misha Dworski
RA: Marc Hafstead
Analysis of US Policies to Improve Automobile Fuel-Economy and Reduce Gasoline Consumption and Analysis of US Policies to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
PI: James Sweeney
RA: Amy Guy
Analyzing Risk and Return Including Energy Efficiency and Other Enabling Technologies in Clean Tech Investment Portfolios
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Energy Efficient Systems Research Projects
Team Title
PI: Erica Plambeck
RA: Ozge Islegen
Supply Chain Design under Uncertain Production and Transportation Costs (Influenced by Climate and Energy Policy)
PI: Christopher Edwards
RA: Adam P. Simpson
Development of a Thermodynamically Based Method of Incorporating Environmental Impact into Decision Making for Energy
PI: Mark Jacobson
Faculty: Cristina Archer
RA: Mike Dvorak
RA: Elaine Hart
RA: Gerard Ketefian
Analyzing and Optimizing Supply and Demand of Intermittent Renewable Electricity through Transmission Load Flow Modeling
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Energy Efficient Transportation Research Projects
Team Title
PI: Yinyu Ye
RA: Nicole Taheri
A Robust Mechanism to Dynamically Provide Grid Services with a Fleet of Plug-in Electric Vehicles
PI: Kenneth Goodson
RA: Saniya LeBlanc
RA: Yuan Gao
Novel Materials and Packaging for Thermoelectric Waste-Heat Recovery in Buildings and Transportation Systems
PI: Balaji Prabhakar
RA: Deepak Merugu
RA: Naini Gomes
RA: Ramji Venkataramanan
An Incentive Mechanism for Reducing Congestion-related Costs in Transportation Systems: A pilot program in India
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