Designing and Adapting Appropriate Socio-Technical Systems for the Renewable Energy Transition (PhD ’18)
Nkiruka has expertise in solar grid integration and climate policy in California, and in electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. She draws from engineering and urban planning disciplines to envision how the renewable energy transition could lead to equitable socio-technical systems. She also holds a master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley, and a bachelor’s degree with summa cum laude honors in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. She is a National Science Foundation Fellow and an Arthur Rosenfeld Fellow. She received her Ph.D. from ERG in August 2018 and currently works with PG&E as a grid innovation engineer.
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