Energy Access and Energy Equity
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Primary Research Goals:
Leaders: Noami Boness Mark Thurber Frank Wolak
- Gas distribution utilities
- Gas infrastructure models
- Emerging markets
- Reliability in nascent grids
Faculty & Researchers
NGI Managing Director
Associate Director for Research at PESD, Social Science Research Scholar
Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the Dept of Economics / Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development - Stanford University
Related Publications
- Thurber, Mark. “Policy Memo: Better Battery Strategy in Emerging Markets”. Energy for Growth Hub, January 18, 2024. https://energyforgrowth.org/article/better-battery-strategy-in-emerging-markets-or-why-you-shouldnt-put-all-your-eggs-in-one-bess-kit/.
- Sherwin, Evan, Jeffrey Rutherford, Yuanlei Chen, Sam Aminfard, Eric Kort, Robert Jackson, and Adam Brandt. “Single-Blind Validation of Space-Based Point-Source Detection and Quantification of Onshore Methane Emissions”. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30761-2.
- Zoback, Mark, and Dirk Smit. “Meeting the Challenges of Large-Scale Carbon Storage and Hydrogen Production”, PNAS, 120, no. 11 (March 6, 2023). https://doi.org/doi: 10.1073/pnas.2202397120.
- Bracci, Justin, Evan Sherwin, Naomi Boness, and Adam Brandt. “Preprint: Leveling the Playing Field: A Cost Comparison of Various Hourly- Reliable, Net-Zero Hydrogen Production Pathways”, Research Square. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2488892/v1.
- Maamoun, Nada, Puneet Chitkara, Joonseok Yang, Gireesh Shrimali, Joshua Busby, Sarang Shidore, Yana Jin, and Johannes Urpelainen. “Identifying Coal Plants for Early Retirement in India: A Multidimensional Analysis of Technical, Economic, and Environmental Factors”, Elsevier, 312 (April 2022): 16.
- Chen, Yuanlei, Evan Sherwin, Elena S.F. Berman, Brian Jones, Matthew Gordon, Erin Wetherley, Eric Kort, and Adam Brandt. “Quantifying Regional Methane Emissions in the New Mexico Permian Basin With a Comprehensive Aerial Survey”, ACS Publications, 4317-23.
- Shi, L, KJ Mach, S Suh, and A Brandt. “Functionality-Based Life Cycle Assessment Framework: An Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Product Case Study”, Wiley, 19.
- Averesch, Nils JH, Vince Pane, Frauke Kracke, Marika Ziesack, Shannon Nangle, Pamela Silver, and Robert Waymouth. “Biocatalytic Formation of Novel Polyesters With Para-Hydroxyphenyl Groups in the Backbone - Engineering Cupriavidus Necator for Production of High-Performance Materials from CO2 and Electricity”.
- Orsini, Rachel, Philip Brodrick, Adam Brandt, and Louis Durlofsky. “Computational Optimization of Solar Thermal Generation With Energy Storage”, Elsevier, 47 (October 2021): 101342.
- Rutherford, Jeffrey, Evan Sherwin, Arvind Ravikumar, Garvin Heath, Jacob Englander, Daniel Cooley, David Lyon, Mark Omara, Quinn Langfitt, and Adam Brandt. “Closing the Methane Gap in US Oil and Natural Gas Production Emissions Inventories”, Nature Publishing Group, 12, no. 1 (August 2021): 12-Jan.
- Nie, Yuhao, Ahmed Zamzam, and Adam Brandt. “Resampling and Data Augmentation for Short-Term PV Output Prediction Based on an Imbalanced Sky Images Dataset Using Convolutional Neural Networks”, Pergamon, 224 (August 2021): 341-54.
- Liu, Ryan, Arvind Ravikumar, Xiaotao Tony Bi, Siduo Zhang, Yuhao Nie, Adam Brandt, and Joule Bergerson. “Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Western Canadian Natural Gas: Proposed Emissions Tracking for Life Cycle Modeling”, American Chemical Society.
- Brandt, Adam, Holger Teichgraeber, Charles Kang, Charles Barnhart, Michael Carbajales-Dale, and Sgouris Sgouridis. “Blow Wind Blow: Capital Deployment in Variable Energy Systems”, Pergamon, 224 (June 2021): 120198.
- Boness PhD, Naomi. “The Interplay of Hydrogen and Natural Gas”, Energy Dialogues.
- Sleep, Sylvia, Zainab Dadashi, Yuanlei Chen, Adam Brandt, Heather MacLean, and Joule Bergerson. “Improving Robustness of LCA Results through Stakeholder Engagement: A Case Study of Emerging Oil Sands Technologies”, Elsevier, 281 (January 2021): 125277.
- Mukerji, Vishal Das Ahinoam Pollack Uri Wollner And Tapan. “Convolutional Neural Network for Seismic Impedance Inversion”.
- Thurber, Mark, and Todd Moss. “12 Reasons Why Gas Should Be Part of Africa’s Clean Energy Future”.
- M., Schwalbe Statt Chosy Singh Rohr Nielander Andersen McEnaney Baker Jaramillo Norskov Cargnello. “A Combined Theory-Experiment Analysis of the Surface Species in Lithium-Mediated NH3 Electrosynthesis”.
- Rostami, Erfan, Naomi Boness, and Mark Zoback. “Significance of Well Orientation on Cumulative Production From Wells in the Bakken Region”.
- K., Ringe Morales-Guio Chen Fields Jaramillo Hahn Chan. “Double Layer Charging Driven Carbon Dioxide Adsorption Limits the Rate of Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction on Gold”.
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