Projects

To achieve carbon neutrality, residential energy needs—including for space heating—must be fully electrified. How electrification will affect the shape, peak, and total consumption of electricity in r...

Inefficient residential energy use, which often occurs in conjunction with low-quality housing, raises greenhouse gas emissions and negatively impacts health. Residents may face the “heat-or-eat” dile...

The use of heat pumps is becoming more common in residential buildings and newer electric vehicles (EVs) because of their dramatic potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Air-sourced heat pumps ...

This project evaluated the state of recycling in California, modeling and forecasting reverse flows of metals, e-waste and plastics and estimate their associated energy use and greenhouse gas emission...

Goals & Objectives:Research and develop methods and tools to generate a framework for cities, townships and villages to achieve carbon neutrality in their operations and measure progress towards t...

Goals & Objectives: This project will enable Meijer to set a greenhouse gas (GHG) supplier engagement goal, which will contribute to reductions in Scope 3 emissions. Theoretical Justific...

Goals & Objectives: As part of a USDA-supported project, the MS project team will: 1. Research methods, materials, and fuels used in maple syrup production, including identifying and qua...

Goals & Objectives:This project will build on the work done in preparation for the Michigan’s Hydrogen Roadmap Workshop convened by CSS this May in Ann Arbor. (See Michigan’s Hydrogen Roadmap Work...

Goals & Objectives:The goal of this project is to develop informational/decision support resources -- including a geospatial web tool, flowchart, and case studies -- that help community members ev...

Electrification is a key corporate strategy and is motivated chiefly by sustainability concerns for the conventional technology. The research results from the project will better define the sustainabi...

The overall goal of these projects was to design, and demonstrate high-performance heat exchangers produced by additive manufacturing for concentrating solar power, process heat, and other demanding a...

Use the maple carbon footprint calculatorProject purposeMaple syrup producers can influence greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with production practices. We will conduct a Life Cycle Assessment...

We will implement an interactive user-friendly dashboard to create charging strategies and guide EV battery services to reduce cost, reduce the carbon footprint of vehicles and buildings, and incre...

2142421 (Craig). Decarbonizing, or reducing carbon dioxide emissions from, the electric power sector underpins climate change mitigation. In the near-term, regardless of decarbonization progress, clim...

Multiple flood risk tools are available that address problems for different economic sectors, institutions, and geographic domains. A common goal among the majority of these tools is assistance with i...

Electric power system utilities are engaged in work to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions intensity of electricity generation. The ultimate aim is to reach near-zero carbon dioxide emissions. Effe...

The University of Michigan Office of Research and the Center for Sustainable Systems are hosting the Hydrogen Roadmap for the State of Michigan Workshop on the UM Ann Arbor Campus. Hydrogen Roadmap...

This project will quantify avoided food waste/loss emissions associated with cold chain services, net of emissions of the equipment needed to refrigerate foods.. The purpose of the project will be to ...

The rural-urban divide refers to a range of disparities associated with access to a variety of services, livelihood opportunities, and income within urban and rural communities. In addition to creatin...