About Us
We are about solutions.
The Institute for Energy Efficiency is a research institute dedicated to researching and developing technological solutions that will forever change how energy is produced, how energy is used and how energy is managed. The Institute leverages the existing faculty expertise and research excellence at UC Santa Barbara for maximum impact by fostering collaborations, sponsoring research and expediting the commercialization of new technologies.
The Institute is comprised of six Solutions Groups, each targeting critical energy issues. These initial focus areas hold the promise for critical advances across crucial industries and technologies. The work currently underway will lead to;
- new communications and computing technologies that will make devices and equipment exponentially more efficient,
- buildings and homes designed and built to have a net-zero impact on the energy grid
- lighting technologies that will save over 273 trillion watt-hours per year in energy,new clean sources of energy that are harvested, stored and transported at a fraction of today’s costs,
- and new economic models, analytics, and policy recommendations to ensure that energy efficiencies will effectively deployed and are sustainable.
The Institute also conducts a wide variety of programs and initiatives outside of our core research focus that further our mission.
The solutions developed at the Institute will change the way people around the world think about, produce and use energy, while concurrently educating and training a new generation of energy technologists for the emerging energy economy.
