Sustainability analysis for electricity planning

Climate change requires that we radically change our power systems. The student will work with the research team to collect, integrate, visualize, and analyze energy and sustainability data from public agencies and energy companies. The data sets will include energy poverty assessments, energy jobs, air pollution emissions, land-use, and other sustainability metrics. By integrating this data into a mathematical model, the student will be able to help the region understand how climate change will impact the cost of meeting our energy needs, and how to reach our sustainability goals. Here the team will analyze the regional energy systems information to facilitate decision making and reduce climate change impacts. This project will involve data analysis, mathematical modeling, and using regional renewable energy resource information, lifecycle emission analyses, and energy poverty and job metrics.