Projects

Made possible by The Dow Chemical Company, the University of Michigan’s Dow Sustainability Fellows Program supports full-time graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are committed to findin...

Goals & Objectives: The overall objective of this effort is to define the opportunity that exists on the U of M Ann Arbor campus to take a leading position in the change towards a more energy...

Partnerships for Innovation in Sustainable Energy Technologies (PISET) This program seeds new interdisciplinary research programs in sustainable energy science, technology, and policy with fund...

The Village of Northport intends to develop and implement a Renewable Energy Community Plan that will enable the village and township to attain their goal of becoming a 100 percent clean energy com...

The objective of this project is to develop a novel methodology to evaluate alternative designs for a State Implementation Plan to comply with Clean Air Act Section 111(d) greenhouse gas emissions ...

Project Objective: This research project will employ and advance state of the art power systems modeling to evaluate an updated Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) for Michigan. In addition to met...

Background of U-M Third Century Initiative As the University prepares to celebrate its bicentennial in 2017, the President and Provost have established the Third Century Initiative (TCI), a $50...

Michigan's existing renewable energy standard will plateau at 10% in 2015. The recent ballot initiative to expand this standard failed and there is currently no mandate to increase it...

One of the largest challenges in integrating large quantities of wind power into the grid is the variability in its power output. The fast ramping up or down of its power output can have negative c...

Intellectual Merit      Electricity accounts for ~40% the energy consumed in the U.S. and most is derived from non-renewable resources including fossil and nuclear fuels.&nb...

There are two major goals for this project. The first is to advance offshore wind siting methods by utilizing multi-criteria assessment that includes concepts and methods from life cycle assessment...

Learning how to make liquid fuels from algae oil under water This project aims to develop a better understanding of the chemistry of hydrothermal catalytic deoxygenation of fatty acids over early t...

Renewable energy development involves not only the energy system but also the economy, the environment, policy, and the society. Clean vehicle development in China, for example, has tremendous impa...

This was a Master's Project to understand community perceptions regarding offshore wind energy development in Lake Michigan in Evanston, Illinois and Mason/Oceana Counties, Michigan. Objectives...

This was a collaborative master’s project between our team of graduate students at the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE) and DTE Energy, the gas and electr...

Camp Michigania, owned and operated by the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan since 1962, is a 420 acre facility on 1.5 miles of shore on Walloon Lake.  Our mission, "To provide ...

Life cycle analysis (LCA) is a useful tool to quantify the environmental impacts of a product or process in an effort to improve its environmental profile.  LCA is easiest to implement on esta...

Purpose            The principal purpose of this project is to advance the body of knowledge that will allow successful offshore commercial wind ...

1. Objectives The goal of this research is to create a framework for a predictive and dynamic Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool. LCA quantifies the environmental impacts of a product or process...

Detroit Edison, a subsidiary of DTE Energy, considered introducing residential dynamic pricing rates, rather than the customary flat retail rate for residential customers, to incent customers to sh...

Global climate change, finite petroleum reserves, and geopolitical instability all point to the wisdom of developing transportation fuels from renewable sources. Bio-ethanol from corn and biodiesel...

Summer internship project to calculate the energy and carbon footprint of CMS facilities in order to evaluate options for reducing costs associated with facility operations and prepare for a national ...

United Solar Ovonic (USO) installed a photovoltaic (PV) module testing system in Auburn Hills, Michigan (Latitude 42.6978, Longitude -83.2419) in March of 2010 for the purpose of evaluating the impact...

Objectives BHP Billiton is seeking to leverage strategic and potential cost advantages associated with renewable energy and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reduction. The Erb Team will aid in de...