As we move into autumn, I would like to take time to thank the SERC team and our many excellent project partners. We are in the midst of one of the busiest and most productive years in our history. The successes we have...
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Arne Jacobson
500kW Solar Array Installed for BLR Microgrid Project
Construction on the Blue Lake Rancheria (BLR) microgrid began in May, and great progress has been made this summer. While the lasting image of the project will be the 500kW solar array, there was significant preparatory...
Jake RadaNorthwest California Alternative Fuels Readiness Project
With funding from the California Energy Commission under solicitation PON-13-603, the Redwood Coast Energy Authority (RCEA) and SERC began a two-year planning process in the spring of 2014. Key project partners were the...
Jerome Carman
Charles ChamberlinSERC Completes Energy Planning Project for the Trinidad Rancheria
Readers of this newsletter may recall that the Summer 2015 issue contained a short piece about an energy planning project we conducted for the Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of the Trinidad Rancheria. Funded by a...
Schatz CenterUNCDF Energy Ladder Research
The first and second phases of the Energy Ladder Research project, a yearlong study in rural Uganda funded by the United Nations Capitol Development Fund CleanStart Programme, are nearly complete. The study aims to...
Richa GoyalSustainable Futures Speaker Series: Alex Eaton on Energy Production from Farm Waste in Latin America
We are pleased to welcome Alex Eaton, CEO of Sistema Biobolsa and an HSU alumnus, as the next speaker in the Fall 2016 Sustainable Futures Speaker Series. Alex will speak on Thursday, October 13 from 5:30 to 7:00 PM in...
Sustainable Futures Speaker Series: Andy Baker on Ocean Source Heat Energy
We are pleased to announce Andy Baker, an energy consultant from Anchorage Alaska, as the next speaker in the Fall 2016 Sustainable Futures Speaker Series. Andy will speak on Thursday, October 6 from 5:30 to 7:00 PM in...
Sustainable Futures Speaker Series: Sharon Kramer of H.T. Harvey to Speak on Wave Energy and the Environment
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Sharon Kramer of H.T. Harvey & Associates to campus as the first speaker in the Fall 2016 Sustainable Futures Speaker Series. Sharon will speak on Thursday, September 15 from 5:30 to...
BLR Community-scale Microgrid Project
Read the California Energy Commission’s update on the Blue Lake Rancheria Community-scale Microgrid project here.
New EV Charging Stations on the North Coast
SERC and the Redwood Coast Energy Authority, along with local contractors and site hosts, celebrate the opening of 10 new electric vehicle charging stations for the North Coast. Learn more by reading the press release...
A Message from the Director
We are pleased to welcome two new faculty members to SERC and the Environmental Resources Engineering (ERE) Department. We recently received confirmation that Peter Alstone and Liza Boyle accepted the tenure track...
