States Driving the Energy Transition
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ENERGY ENTREPRENEURS AND THE ENERGY TRANSITION
Anderson Barkow Co-Founded BoxPower after spending three years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Corporate and Investment Bank, where he underwrote debt products and managed risk to Fortune 500 technology companies. He brings experience in impact-focused ventures from experiences at RSF Social Finance and Wakabi Boda Solutions, an SMS based app seeking to solve last mile distribution in Uganda. He is a 2019 Halcyon Fellow, DRK Entrepreneur, 2019 GSBI Fellow, and 2019 Wild Gift Fellow. Louis Langlois is the Vice […]
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ESM – First Class Graduates
The first cohort of students in the Energy Systems Management program graduated in May 2019. There was a fantastic event where the graduating students presented their final projects, including papers on carbon capture and storage, microgrids for resilience, FERC Order No. 841, vehicle-to-grid technology, and electric vehicle adoption. Other students presented integrated resource plans for PacifiCorp, Arizona Public Service, and Public Service of Colorado and other places. All the presentations can be seen HERE. Families came from around the country […]
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Role of CCAs
MS in Energy Systems Management (ESM) co-hosted an ESM Speaker Series with Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) and Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) at USF’s downtown campus with Justin Pine ESM MS ’19, Rachel Bird and Michael Callahan. The moderator was Irene Boghdadi ESM MS ’20 (expected). A video recording can be found HERE. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this recording are those of the presenters and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of any agency or business. Rachel Bird is Borrego […]
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ESM Professor Jim Williams Presents at the Vatican
The purpose of the meeting was to discuss how finance ministers can do more on climate. Pope Frances leant his name to the proceeding, which was hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (whose first director was Galileo). There were about 50 people attending, including about 25 finance ministers, largely from Europe and Latin America, plus a couple from Africa and Asia, and other key figures in international finance such as presidents of multi-lateral development banks and United Nations funds […]
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Renewable Energy Finance
MS in Energy Systems Management (ESM) co-hosted an ESM Speaker Series with Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) at USF’s downtown campus with Maddie Brown ESM MS ’19, Marisa Sweeney and Mark Weitzel. The moderator was Mike Lowell ESM MS ’19, Policy Director and Development Engineer at Amber Kinetics, who is currently working on increasing local energy resilience with an emphasis on microgrids and trans-active energy. A video recording is HERE. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this recording are those of the presenters and do not necessarily […]
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ESM Welcomes Three Fulbright Scholars
Meet Rehana Aziz ESM MS ’21 Rehana Azia from Gilgit, Pakistan is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) and Solar PV Technical professional with seven years of working experience. She has been involved in solar PV system designing, system installations, and product development. Her initiative ‘SHE in Energy’ promotes women in the male-dominated energy sector, and she is one of the first female solar installers in Pakistan. During her MS studies, she will explore currently available renewable energy micro-grid technologies around […]
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Microgrids and the Energy Transition
MS in Energy Systems Management (USF Energy) co-hosted a USF Energy Speaker Series with Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) at USF’s downtown campus with Nikky Avila, Nirupama Prakash Kumar, and Sandra Kwak. The moderator was Mike Lowell, MS in Energy Systems Management class of 2019, and Policy Director and Development Engineer at Amber Kinetics, who is currently working on increasing local energy resilience with an emphasis on microgrids and trans-active energy. A video recording is available here. Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this recording are those of […]
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Meet USF ENERGY student Marc Gaulier
My career in clean energy started in earnest when I was featured in a TV commercial for a real estate company in Yangon, Myanmar. (The commercial is still playing on a 50-foot billboard in downtown Yangon.) On the set for the commercial, I met a fellow expat entrepreneur who was interested in building rice husk-fired generators for rural electrification projects, and he gave me an engineering job a few months later. Over the following year, the focus of Indigo Energy […]
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The Electrification of Transportation
MS in Energy Systems Management (ESM) co-hosted a USF Energy Speaker Series with Young Professionals in Energy (YPE) at USF’s downtown campus with Noel Crisostomo and Francesca Wahl. The moderator was Jessica Pernod, MS in Energy Systems Management, class of ’20. Noel Crisostomo is an Air Pollution Specialist leading transportation electrification and grid integration policy at the California Energy Commission. In this role he coordinates regulatory, technology assessment, incentive design, and forecasting efforts for plug-in electric vehicle charging. Previously, Noel was lead utilities regulatory analyst at […]
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