energy – UCI

Advanced Power and Energy Program Releases California Renewable Hydrogen Production Roadmap

Written on June 23, 2020.

Roadmap provides guidance on actions needed to launch and scale the California renewable hydrogen production sector to advance state policy goals IRVINE, Calif., June 23, 2020 – The Advanced Power and Energy Program (APEP) recently completed a roadmap for the scaling and build-out of the renewable hydrogen, or RH2, production sector in California to serve a broad range of applications in the energy and transportation sectors. RH2 can be a key foundation in decarbonization strategies,...

Designing an Energy-Efficient Cement

Written on March 15, 2017.

March 15, 2017 – Two engineering assistant professors think they’ve found a way to manipulate the most commonly used building material in the world – cement – to make it less of an energy drain while not compromising its superior strength. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, space heating and cooling accounts for more than 50 percent of energy consumption in buildings. A staggering amount of energy seeps out through walls, windows and doors. “It’s imperative...

Undergrad Wins Brower Youth Award

Written on September 6, 2016.

Sept. 6, 2016 – Samueli School undergraduate Will Amos has been named one of six national winners of the 2016 Brower Youth Award recognizing outstanding youth leaders making a difference in the environmental movement. Amos, an environmental engineering major, leads a UC Irvine team of art and engineering students creating a bicycle-powered, closed-loop 3-D printer/print recycling station. The project, partially funded by the Calit2/UROP-sponsored Multidisciplinary Design Program,...

UC Irvine increasing on-site solar power production fourfold

Written on November 4, 2014.

UC Irvine is quadrupling the amount of green power it generates on-site with the addition of solar photovoltaic canopies on three campus parking structure roofs. Irvine, Calif., Nov. 4, 2014 —UC Irvine is quadrupling the amount of green power it generates on-site with the addition of solar photovoltaic canopies on three campus parking structure roofs. Construction has already begun on the Social Science Parking Structure on Campus Drive. It will be followed by installations on the Student...

UCI, others net $122 million for solar fuels research

Written on July 29, 2010.

The team of California universities will form an Energy Innovation Hub. KRISTEN SCHOTT, OC Metro A team of California universities – including UC Irvine – has garnered a $122 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to form a consortium to find new ways to generate fuels from sunlight. The Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub will be led by the California Institute of Technology, in partnership with UCI, UC Santa Barbara, UC...

$122 million to turn sunlight into fuel

Written on July 22, 2010.

Pat Brennan, The Orange County Register A group of California universities that includes UC Irvine landed a $122 million grant Thursday to attempt a scientific breakthrough: converting sunlight directly into fuel. The five-year project, to be funded by the Department of Energy and led by Caltech, will seek to create an artificial way to perform a task that leaves perform naturally — combining sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to create an energy source. The...

Solar fuels research gets major funding

Written on July 22, 2010.

UCI among California universities receiving up to $122 million to create fuels from sunlight By Janet Wilson, University Communications U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman today (July 22) awarded up to $122 million over five years to a team of top California scientists to establish an Energy Innovation Hub aimed at pioneering revolutionary methods to generate fuels directly from sunlight. “This is a major science win for California,” said John Hemminger, dean of UC Irvine’s...

Seeing fuels’ effects down the road

Written on November 16, 2009.

UCI computer model foresees effects of alternative transportation fuels. Jennifer Fitzenberger, University Communications It’s the year 2060, and 75 percent of drivers in the Greater Los Angeles area have hydrogen fuel cell vehicles that emit only water vapor. Look into Shane Stephens-Romero’s crystal ball – a computer model called STREET – and find that air quality has significantly improved. Greenhouse gas emissions are more than 60 percent lower than in 2009, and levels of microscopic...

Wind + water = untapped energy

Written on June 30, 2009.

Wind energy over the planet’s oceans is a vastly underutilized renewable resource, according to UC Irvine researchers. Jennifer Fitzenberger, University Communications Wind energy over the planet’s oceans is a vastly underutilized renewable resource, according to UC Irvine researchers. At 80 meters above the ocean – the typical wind turbine height – more than 50 percent more power is available than at 10 meters, the height important to the shipping industry upon which previous...

Clearing the air

Written on June 1, 2009.

Kathryn Bold, University Communications In ways that have altered nearly every aspect of campus life, UC Irvine has reduced the energy needed to keep the place humming, serving as a model for other large organizations seeking to shrink their carbon footprints. “Environmental stewardship at UCI began long before we even heard the words ‘green,’ ‘LEED,’ or ‘carbon-neutrality,’” says Wendell Brase, vice chancellor of Administrative and Business Services. “UCI started its first vanpool...

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