Projects

Graham Sustainability Institute’s Carbon Neutrality Acceleration Program (CNAP) This emerging energy storage solution could offer the best of both worlds—supporting deep decarbonization and kee...

As solar PV deployment increases in the U.S., so will the volume of decommissioned PV modules and balance of system equipment, and large amounts of annual waste are anticipated by the early 2030s. Cur...

Lockdown and social-distancing policy drove U.S. workers to switch to telecommuting during the pandemic of Covid-19 in 2020. Telecommuting has been widely perceived as a sustainable way of working tha...

Declining wholesale prices, increasing wind and solar penetrations, and rapid diffusion of competing technologies are undermining nuclear generator’s reliance on power market revenues. To succeed give...

SCC-IRG Track 1 The goal of this Smart and Connected Communities (SCC) project is to explore the efficacy of new social-technological paradigms to reduce residential energy insecurity for low- ...

This project estimated the private, climate change, and air pollution-driven benefits and costs of heat pump adoption across the U.S.

Problem Statement: Electrification can decarbonize (or reduce carbon emissions from) vehicles if charging uses electricity from low- or zero-carbon sources. Decisions about where, when, and how ele...

GRAHAM CATALYST GRANTS Catalyst Grants are offered in the fall and winter to support a range of short-term, small-scale collaborative activities. These grants are intended to help better define a...

Graham Catalyst Grants This project received a $10,000 Catalyst Grant in 2019. Additional project support provided M-LEEaD. Project Summary Beginning in July, 2019, the Michigan Public ...

Problem Statement: The relationship between how batteries are operated and their degradation and service life is complex and not well synthesized or communicated. There is a resulting lack of a...

This study set out to examine the relationship between government grid energy use and social well-being status among rural villages in India with access to a microgrid developed by Boond. Our resea...

There are a number of U.S. cities making and implementing ambitious commitments to transition to 100% renewable energy; however, many of them are unsure of how to meet their commitments. This resea...

Graham Catalyst Grant As national concern for climate change grows, federal policy and specific approaches, such as carbon taxes or renewable energy targets, have received the bulk of attention...

The Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) is a non-profit dedicated to furthering the understanding of Earth systems and global environmental change research in service of society. The mission of th...

M-CUBED 3.0 Mcubed stimulates innovative research and scholarship by distributing real-time seed funding to multi-unit, faculty-led teams.  Through this revolutionary research funding program,...

Develop a set of green energy storage principles for mobile applications to guide design, deployment, and responsible life cycle management of battery technologies. The Center for Sustainable Syste...

Graham Transformation Grant - Graham Sustainability Institute provides up to $200,000 over 2 years for collaborative research initiatives; 1 award per year. There is an urgent need to...

To research the economics of energy efficiency, by characterizing profiles of households who fall into financing coverage gaps for energy efficiency programs:  Spatial characterization...

Goals and Objectives: A ten-year, 100% renewable energy plan for Leelanau County encompassing electricity and thermal (space and water heat) energy.  The plan will incorporate the planning...

Energy poverty, or the gap in energy affordability, is a burden on low-income households amounting to millions of dollars in utility arrears. This burden negatively impacts a household’s long-term ...

This project will apply low cost solar technologies to provide drinking water to isolated communities in water scarce regions.  The project will also use the concepts of Industrial Symbiosis t...

The Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) Energy Table was launched in beta form as a public resource on AGCl's website in 2015. It seeks to become a valuable and unique resource of information abou...

The State of Michigan passed Act 270 in 2010 allowing local units of government to establish a Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program. On November 17, the Leelanau County commission voted to...