Millions of families worldwide rely on solid and polluting fuels to meet their basic energy needs, such as cooking, heating, and lighting. This talk will discuss how sociological and physical measurement methods are...
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Maia CheliSustainable Futures 4/5: Greening the Grid & Improving Resilience
Renewable energy microgrids are an emerging technology that can support: emergency preparedness job creation greenhouse gas reductions energy cost savings grid reliability and improved resilience across lifeline sectors...
Schatz CenterSustainable Futures 3/22: Restoring Redwood Forests in a Changing Climate
With rapid climate change, the importance of coast redwood forests is increasing. Old-growth redwood forests on the northcoast store record-breaking amounts of carbon, and the trees themselves are growing faster today...
A clean energy microgrid for the Humboldt County airport
A cutting-edge clean energy microgrid is coming to Humboldt County’s regional airport. Designed by the Schatz Center, the microgrid will generate green electricity, create jobs for local contractors and technicians, and...
Evaluation of biomass conversion technologies: new publication released
We recently completed work on the Waste to Wisdom project that examined the entire supply chain of converting forest waste residues into bioenergy and wood products. The Center’s role was to evaluate equipment that...
Mark SeverySFSS lecture this Thursday (2/22): Do wind turbines make good neighbors?
In this week’s Sustainable Futures Speaker Series, energy researcher Joseph Rand shares results from a nationwide survey of people who live in proximity to wind farms. Wind power now supplies over 6% of the...
Sustainable Futures Speaker Series: Spring 2018
This spring’s Sustainable Futures Speaker Series features nine talks on topics ranging from wind turbines to Icelandic glaciers, microgrids to traditional forestry practices, cannabis policy to tanoak restoration...
Energy Adoption Patterns in Uganda: Final Blog
In 2017, we worked with UNCDF’s CleanStart Programme in partnership with SolarAid/Acumen, to evaluate the impact of pay-as-you-go purchase opportunities for small solar systems in Uganda. Here’s the third and...
2018 Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo
The Schatz Energy Research Center was a major presence at the 5th Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo, which took place this week in Hong Kong. The conference is the premier global event for the off-grid solar industry...
Blue Lake Rancheria microgrid wins Project of the Year Award at DistribuTECH conference
The Blue Lake Rancheria (BLR) microgrid was awarded the 2018 Project of the Year Award for Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Grid Integration at the annual DistribuTECH conference held this week in San Antonio, Texas...
Announcing the Donald and Andrea Tuttle Fellowship for Clean Energy Studies
The Schatz Energy Research Center is pleased to announce the Donald and Andrea Tuttle Fellowship for Clean Energy Studies at Humboldt State University. The Tuttles have established this annual fellowship as part of an...
Schatz Energy in brief: climate-smart infrastructure and sustainable bioenergy
The Union of Concerned Scientists just released a new white paper on “climate-smart” infrastructure in California, citing the Blue Lake Rancheria (BLR) microgrid as a prime example of infrastructure built to...
