Energy

Ranjit Deshmukh

PhD
India’s Low Carbon Electricity Futures (PhD ’17) Ranjit’s research efforts largely focus on addressing the clean energy and energy access challenges in developing nations. As part of both the International Energy Studies group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and ERG, Ranjit is developing models of the Indian national power system to analyze policies and technical solutions for integrating large amounts of wind and solar resources on the grid. He has also been engaged with energy access issues, especially regarding renewable energy-based mini-grid policies and development of...

Elisabeth Derby

MA

Appliance Standards Transplantation: Applicability of a United States-based Energy Efficiency Standards Model in Costa Rica (’01 M.A.)

Zubair Dar

MA

Zubair is a Master’s student who researches water policy and management of international river basins, and is particularly focused on hydro-politics of the Indus basin. He has researched the relationship between water discharge and land use patterns in upper Jhelum watershed, international water agreements (especially the Indus Waters Treaty), and conflict over distribution of water resources and energy generation in the form of hydroelectricity. He is keen to understand the complexity of riparian relations and cooperation in adapting to climate change. In his previous life, Zubair...

Cristina Crespo Montanes

MS, PhD
I am an Industrial Engineer, a PhD Candidate at the Energy and Resources Group (UC Berkeley), and a researcher in the Energy Markets and Policy Department at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Michael Cohen

MS, PhD
Michael’s background is in technology education, software engineering and product management.

Nick Clarke

MA
A native of Utah, Nick holds a BA in Environmental Studies from Westminster College in Salt Lake City. He has focused his career on real-time environmental monitoring, previous working at Oberlin College and Lucid on energy and resource monitoring.

Yanxia Chen

MS

Economic Assessment for the Donghan Village-scale Biomass Gasification Energy Supply System in China (03 MS)

Clifford Chen

MS

Is it Worth it? A Comparative Analysis of Cost-Benefit Projections for State Renewables Portfolio Standards (’06, MS)

Mark Chao

MS

Prospects for Replacement and Shutdown of Russian Weapons-Plutonium Production Reactors (95 MS)

Stuart Chaitkin

MA

Municipal Energy Production in California (85 MA)