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Utilizing Flexible EV Charging to Mitigate Renewable Energy Curtailment and Support a Low Carbon Grid

In California, there is often an excess supply of solar energy in the middle of the day, which can lead to grid curtailment - when clean, renewable energy is not generated to its full capacity or sold to other regions at negative pricing. As more electric vehicles enter the market in California and are poised to charge at the similar peak demand times, utilities are looking for strategies to shift demand of electric vehicle charging to use that excess supply of solar energy. The project's goal was to analyze the potential of electric vehicles as a flexible demand response tool and how to turn a challenge into an opportunity.

Faculty Advisors: Christopher Costello

Clients: Southern California Edison

Impact Investment and Fisheries: Can Private Capital Rebuild Chilean Hake Stocks?

Group Members: Nathan Grimes

Faculty Advisors: Christopher Costello

Clients: Environmental Defense Fund

Utilizing Flexible EV Charging to Mitigate Renewable Energy Curtailment and Support a Low Carbon Grid

Impact Investment and Fisheries: Can Private Capital Rebuild Chilean Hake Stocks?

Exploring the Return on Investment Case for Drinking Water Protection in the Upper Mississippi River Basin

Next Generation Water Action Plan for General Electric

Prioritizing Cost-Effective Dust Mitigation at the Salton Sea

Motivating Private-Public Collaboration to Reduce Fire Severity in the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains

Environmental Impacts of Utility-Scale Battery Storage in California

Air-Based Land Management – Assessing Drone and Imaging Tools for the Tejon Ranch Conservancy

Better Groundwater Management for Agriculture, Habitat and Society

Incentivizing Incidental Groundwater Recharge in Teton Valley, Idaho

The Living Laboratories- Improving Management at Two University of California Natural Reserves

Eco-Entrepreneurship: Bluenote: Streamlining Water Quality Monitoring

Locating Ocean Acidification Monitoring Gaps and Hotspots within the California Current

Creating Effective Fish Refuges: Identifying the Keys for Success

Achieving Carbon Neutrality at UCSB by 2025: A Critical Analysis of Technological and Financial Strategies

Eco-Entrepreneurship: An Entrepreneurial Approach to Improving Energy Efficiency in the Industrial Sector

An Analysis of Wolf-Livestock Conflict Hotspots and Conflict Reduction Strategies in Northern California

Developing a Toolkit to Optimize Community Choice Energy Programs

Economic Valuation of Southern California Coastal Wetlands

Characterizing the Ecological Risk to the Tidewater Goby from Pyrethroid Use in Coastal California