SPEAKER Peter Alstone Ph.D. Candidate Energy & Resources Group DATE: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 TIME: 4:00 P.M. PLACE: 126 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley Peter Alstone’s research focus areas are infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy approaches to energy devel­op­ment, under­stand­ing mar­kets for demand-side energy tech­nol­ogy, and energy tech­nol­ogy pol­icy. Out­side of aca­d­e­mics, he con­tributes to the Light­ing Global pro­gram, which sup­ports the mar­ket for mod­ern off-grid light­ing in the devel­op­ing world. Peter’s work for Light­ing Global includes tech­ni­cal and engi­neer­ing sup­port, pol­icy devel­op­ment, and mar­ket intel­li­gence. To escape the city he enjoys hikes in Tilden Park and far­ther afield, par­tic­u­larly with his two kids and wife Andrea. Peter holds a B.S. in Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing (North Car­olina State Uni­ver­sity) and M.S. in Envi­ron­men­tal Sys­tems (Hum­boldt State University).