SERC is proud to be co-hosting a biomass energy workshop along with the University of California’s Woody Biomass Utilization Group. The workshop will take place on November 7th from 8:30 AM to 5 PM at HSU’s...
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Jim ZoellickA Message from the Director
We have completed the transition from summer to fall here in far northern California, and – while it has been clear and sunny for the past few days – we recently had the first heavy rainstorm of the season. As the...
Arne JacobsonSolar Mini-Grids Put India’s Villages in a New Light
As we reported in our spring issue, SERC is part of an international team assessing opportunities to use solar power for rural electrification in India. Providing solar power via a central PV array and a village...
Richard EngelBlue Energy in the Humboldt Bay
Blue Energy, a potential source of renewable and sustainable energy, is the energy released from the salination of water when freshwater mixes with saltwater. One process for capturing this energy is pressure-retarded...
Andrea AchilliSERC Continues Electric Vehicle Planning Work in Two New Regions
Earlier this year we reported on our plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) readiness planning work for Humboldt County. Building on this effort, SERC is now engaged in similar studies for New Delhi, India as well as the...
Colin SheppardHSU Hydrogen Fueling Station Hosts First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Commute from the Bay Area
Anand Gopal, research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL) and former Schatz Energy Fellow, and Elizabeth Pimentel-Gopal, former HSU Assistant Director of Admissions, drove from Berkeley to Arcata to...
Meg HarperSERC Completes Instrumentation of RFT Torrefier
In September, Greg Chapman and I made our second trip to Renewable Fuel Technologies (RFT) to continue work on measuring the energy and mass balances of RFT’s pilot-scale torrefier. The one-ton-per-day torrefier...
Marc MarshallSpeaker Series: Nathan Hultman on US Climate Policy
HSU’s Sustainable Futures Speaker Series presents Nathan Hultman, Associate Professor and Director of the Environmental Policy Program at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. He is also a Fellow at...
Schatz CenterA Message from the Director
Activities on the Humboldt State campus have slowed down for the summer, but we are still very busy here at SERC. The articles in this newsletter highlight some of our current activity. As Colin Sheppard’s article...
SERC Completes Siting Analysis for Electric Vehicle Infrastructure on the North Coast
Over half of Humboldt County’s energy-related greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation. Nationwide, the transportation sector contributes 28% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Plug-in electric vehicle (PEVs)...
SERC Receives Funding for Bio-Energy Research
A $95,000 California Energy Commission (CEC) grant enables SERC, in partnership with Renewable Fuel Technologies (RFT) of San Mateo, to continue experiments aimed at converting slash from logging and fuel reduction...
Renewable Energy Mini-Grids
Over the past year, SERC has been collaborating on the Renewable Energy Mini-Grids for Improved Energy Access project with researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Energy and Resources Group (ERG)...
