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Newsletter: October 2017

Institute & Faculty News Features:
- George Holbrook's Gift Safeguards Graduate Research Fellowships
- Agricultural Water and Energy Saving Partnership Established

Noah Horowitz summarizes the massive outpouring of support for light bulb efficiency standard.
 

Our planet is experiencing worldwide growth in energy consumption and CO2 emission and is experiencing temperature rise and climate change at an accelerating rate. This video introduces the Institute for Energy Efficiency at UC Santa Barbara and describes a path to reducing our energy consumption and CO2 emission.

Southern California Edison has a goal to reduce carbon-emissions 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, with an electric grid supplied by 80% carbon-free sources. Gary Barsley discusses SCE's pathway to clean power and electrification, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and cleaning the power grid by decarbonizing the electric sector, electrifying the transportation sector, and electrifying buildings. SCE Emerging Products projects include assessing a number of new technologies to help achieve these important goals. Recorded on 05/16/2019.

Innovative approaches to make the world more energy efficient, proposed by UC Santa Barbara faculty, have received a significant boost from the Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE). The IEE is an interdisciplinary research institute committed to improving energy efficiency across three key themes: smart societal infrastructure, computing and communications, and the food-energy-water nexus.
 

The Institute for Energy Efficiency announced this year’s Excellence in Research fellow and this year's Szilagyi Energy Breakthrough fellow. The IEE Excellence in Research Graduate Fellowship is awarded to one PhD candidate in recognition of their cutting-edge research in sustainability and/or energy efficiency. The Szilagyi Energy Breakthrough Fellowship is made possible through the generous support of Gary and Tammy Szilagyi.

The Institute for Energy Efficiency announced this year’s Peter J. Frenkel Foundation fellows. This award is made possible through the generous support of The Peter J. Frenkel Foundation and is granted to two advanced doctoral candidates in recognition of their outstanding research contributions to the field of energy efficiency. Click here to learn more about the Peter J. Frenkel Foundation Fellowship.

Introducing the 2019-2020 Peter J. Frenkel Foundation Fellows:

Increasingly, Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications require energy efficiency, low-latency, privacy and security of code and data, and programming support that simplifies IoT software development and deployment. UCSB Professor of Computer Science Chandra Krintz presents a new distributed software platform and programming model that addresses these requirements for the next generation of IoT applications.

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 - Santa Barbara, CA:  Their award-winning research has been the foundation for numerous energy-saving innovations, including bright and energy-saving white light LED lighting, more energy-efficient data-center communications and interconnects, and software that reduces energy usage in buildings worldwide. How fitting, then, that UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency is now housed in one such building.

With the Institute for Energy Efficiency’s state-of-the-art Henley Hall now up and running, we have safely opened 6 of 17 planned labs. Information on each of the six labs is outlined below: