March 19, 2018
6:30 pm / 12:00 am
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355
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8:30 am – 9:00 am
Check-in and Light Breakfast
9:00 am – 9:10 am
Welcome and Introduction
9:10 am – 10:00 am
Panel/ Dialogue – Expanding Renewable Energy Generation, Distribution, and Storage –
A Policy and Management Approach
- Greening the LA Power Grid: Comparing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Southern California Edison Regulatory Models
Ann Carlson | Law and William Boyd | Law, University of Colorado
- Agent-Based Modeling of Solar Power Adoption by Los Angeles County Residents
Timothy Malloy | Law
- ‘Greening’ the Mix Through Community Choice: Toward a 100% Renewable Energy Los Angeles
Sean Kennedy | Urban Planning
10:00 am – 11:05 am
Panel/ Dialogue – Ensuring Energy System Sustainability
- Air Pollution and its Health Effects in California: Source Apportionment and Possible Solution through Deep Decarbonization
Yifang Zhu | Environmental Health Sciences
- Life Cycle Assessment of Alternative Fuels from Waste Biomass Resources
Deepak Rajagopal | Institute of the Environment & Sustainability
- Energy siting and ecosystem health impacts (title TBD)
Tom Smith | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
- Energy siting and ecosystem health impacts (title TBD)
Brad Shaffer | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
11:05 am – 11:15 am
Coffee
11:15 am – 12:30 pm
Panel/ Dialogue – Expanding Renewable Energy Generation, Distribution, and Storage –
A Technical Approach
- LA Energy Assessment
Richard Wirz | Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- Integrated Spectral Leverage Amplification (iSLA) System for Thermal Solar Energy Harvesting
Yongjie Hu | Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- Recent Progress of UCLA Thin Film Solar Cell Research
Yang Yang | Materials Science & Engineering
- Title TBD
Laurent Pilon | Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- A Modern Framework for Smart Grids: Cooperating Microgrids via Distributed Energy Resource, Combining Solar Photovoltaics, Electric Vehicles, and Energy Storage Systems
Rajit Gadh | Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
12:30 pm – 12:55 pm
Lunch
12:55 pm – 1:45 pm
Panel/ Dialogue – Improving Management of Energy
- Competition Between Efficiency and Growth in the Pursuit of Residential Energy Conservation
Eric Fournier | Institute of the Environment & Sustainability
- Evaluating the Potential of Transportation Network Company Services Integrated with an Expanding Transit System to Accelerate Zero Emission Vehicle Deployment in Los Angeles
Juan Matute | UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies
- Automated Vehicles for Sustainable Cities: Field Experiments and Future Outlooks in Los Angeles
Chee Wei Wong | Electrical Engineering
1:45 pm – 2:00 pm
Next Steps and Closing Remarks