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Western Energy Hub Poised for Pivotal Role Supplying California Markets with Green Energy

Written on February 3, 2020.

February 3, 2020 – Renewable energy infrastructure now under development at the Western Energy Hub, in Millard County, Utah, can be integral in helping Los Angeles and California achieve their goals of 100% zero-carbon electricity, according to a white paper published by the Advanced Power and Energy Program (APEP) at the University of California, Irvine. The paper builds on over a decade of research at APEP regarding the role of renewable hydrogen and related solutions as key...

‘Committed’ CO2 emissions jeopardize international climate goals, UCI-led study finds

Written on July 1, 2019.

Existing, planned fossil fuel-burning infrastructure must be retired early, replaced Irvine, Calif., July 1, 2019 – The nations that have signed agreements to stabilize the global mean temperature by 2050 will fail to meet their goals unless existing fossil fuel-burning infrastructure around the world is retired early, according to a study – published today in Nature – by researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions. “We need to reach net-zero carbon dioxide...

On the Water Front

Written on December 12, 2016.

Renowned hydrologist joins UCI to lead interdisciplinary research efforts Dec. 12, 2016 — Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, an expert in hydrology and water resources, recently joined the University of California, Irvine as a Distinguished Professor of civil & environmental engineering. After nearly three decades at the University of Minnesota, with her research laboratory perched atop a waterfall on the Mississippi River, she moved to a region suffering from a severe drought, but the native...

In a National First, UCI Injects Renewable Hydrogen into Campus Power Supply

Written on December 6, 2016.

Power-to-gas technique offers new way to store and use excess wind and solar energy Dec. 6, 2016 — University of California, Irvine engineers have successfully implemented the first power-to-gas hydrogen pipeline injection project in the United States, demonstrating the use of excess clean electricity that would otherwise go to waste. P2G is a technique for converting surplus sustainable energy from solar panels or wind farms into hydrogen, which can be blended with natural gas and...

Economic slump, not natural gas boom, responsible for drop in CO2 emissions

Written on July 21, 2015.

The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the global financial recession – not the reduced use of coal, research from the University of California Irvine, the University of Maryland, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis shows. Brian Bell, UC Irvine Irvine, Calif., July 21, 2015 – The 11 percent decrease in climate change-causing carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. between 2007 and 2013...

On track for clean energy

Written on September 30, 2013.

UCI will host – and compete in – the California Challenge, which pits alternative-fuel race cars against each other Janet Wilson, UC Irvine (Update: UC Irvine’s natural-gas-powered Delta, aka Old Faithful, won the California Challenge Sunday evening on the race track at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2013 and XPO.) On the bottom floor of UC Irvine’s Engineering Tower sits the secret weapon – maybe. Dubbed Gamma Prime, it looks like do-it-yourself shelving laid flat. But...

W.M. Keck Foundation Grants UCI $1 Million for Deep-Ocean Power Science Lab

Written on January 18, 2013.

Researchers will explore use of marine conditions to produce clean energy Lori Brandt, UCIrvine News The W.M. Keck Foundation has granted $1 million to UC Irvine to build a campus laboratory in which researchers can explore the potential of using the deep ocean’s low-temperature and high-pressure conditions to generate carbon-free power from methane hydrates. Three-dimensional, ice-like structures with natural gas locked inside, methane hydrates are found under the Arctic permafrost...

It’s Not Just Summer, World Keeps Warming

Written on June 19, 2012.

Eric Niiler, Discovery News The world’s political and environmental leaders gather in Rio de Janeiro tomorrow to assess the state of the planet’s health 20 years after the first such gathering in 1992. But if science is any guide, Earth still needs some help. Several new climate studies reveal various aspects of the same foreboding problem: the atmosphere continues to warm, glaciers continue melting and seas keep rising. But there is a tiny bit of good news — the United...

Fueling the hydrogen highway

Written on February 9, 2009.

Scott Samuelsen is UC Irvine’s go-to guy on fuel cell and hydrogen technology. Jennifer Fitzenberger, University Communications Scott Samuelsen is UC Irvine’s go-to guy on fuel cell and hydrogen technology. Samuelsen led the development of UCI’s hydrogen fueling station, the most technologically advanced, publicly accessible station in the world. It was the first of its kind in Orange County, and it is a key component of the California Hydrogen Highway Network. The station can...

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