California Solar Energy Collaborative

Presentations

Presentations at the Solar Workshop, UC Davis Energy Week, April 6, 2011

• Federal Guidance on Solar Development at Airports
  Phil De Vita, Director of Air Quality, Harris Miller Miller & Hanson Inc., Burlington, MA
• A Framework for Comparing Costs of Subsidizing Rooftop Solar and Solar Farms
  Sanford Miller, NSHP Lead, Renewable Energy Program
• AB 32 Implementation and the Electricity Sector
  Gary Collord, California Air Resources Board, Energy Section
• Development of Double-Effect Solar Cooling; from Sacramento to Merced.
  Roland Winston, Professor, UC Merced
• Strategic Importance of CSP Plants to California's Renewable Portfolio
  John White, Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (CEERT)
• Permitting and Transmission Challenges for New CSP Plants
  James Caldwell, Consultant
• Rare plants and solar installations: Predicting population distributions and viability
  Kara Moore and Patrick McIntyre, Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis

Poster Presentations at the Solar Workshop, UC Davis Energy Week, April 6, 2011

• Total Sky Imager Forecasting at the UC San Diego Solar Energy Testbed
  Authors: Chow CW, Urquhart B, Lave M, Kleissl J.
  Kleissl Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting Lab, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego
• Hybrid Solar Cells: Basic Principles, Nanoparticle Synthesis and Role of Ligands
  Authors: Chandru Thambidurai, Ruxandra Vidu, Adam Moule, Pieter Strooeve
  Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Davis
• Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by a Redox Active Anionic Iron Cluster
  Authors: M. Diego Rail, Maheswaran Shanmugam, Louise Berben
  Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis
• Electrochemical Deposition of CoSb3 Nanowires for Thermoelectric Applications
  Authors: Dat V. Quach, Simon Li, Ruxandra Vidu and Pieter Stroeve
  Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Davis
• Synthesis, Characterization and Self-Assembly of Thiol Capped Ag Nanoparticles
  Authors: Li-Qiang Chu, Shuangjian Zhang, Lilian Chang, Adam J Moulé, Pieter Stroeve
  Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Davis
• Functional Multi-Layer Solution Processable Polymer Solar Cells
  Authors: Scott A. Mauger, Lilian Chang, Christopher W. Rochester, David M. Huang, Daniela D. LaGrange, Adam J. Moule
  Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Davis

Presentations at the Solar Workshop, UC Davis Energy Week, May 11, 2010

• New Photovoltaic Products
  Daniel Shugar, CEO, Solaria Corporation Keynote Speaker
• SMUD's Feed in tariff
  Gary Lawson, Supervisor Power Contracts, Energy Trading & Contracts Dept., SMUD
• The Intersection of PV Project Performance and Economics
  Paul Breslow, President, e2d
• California's Solar Incentive Programs: 1998 to Present
  Sanford Miller, NSHP Lead, CEC Renewable Energy Program, Keynote Speaker
• Sanyo's Smart Energy System
  Hiroshi Hanafusa, General Manager, Sanyo Energy Solution Business Division
• Smart Grid Impacts on Solar Deployment
  Mike Gravely, Manager of Energy Systems Research Office in the PIER Program
• PV Farms
  Larry Asera, Chairman and Founder, Asera Group
• SMUD's Experience in the Solar Marketplace
  Jim Barnett, LEED AP, Principal Architect, SMUD PV Programs

Poster Presentations at the Solar Workshop, UC Davis Energy Week, May 11, 2010.

• California Solar Energy Collaborative
  Overview
  UC Davis and UC San Diego
• Coarse-grained Computer Simulations of Polymer/fullerene bulk Heterojunctions for Photovoltaic Application
  David M. Huang, Roland Faller, Khanh Do, Adams J. Moule
  Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Davis
• Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)
  David Barlev¹, Ruxandra Vidu, Pieter Stroeve
  ¹Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis
  Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Davis
• Electrochemical Deposition of CoSb₃ Nanowires for Thermoelectric Applications
  Dat V. Quach, Ruxandra Vidu, Simon Li, Joanna R. Groza and Pieter Stroeve
  Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Davis
• Inorganic Nanostructures in Organic Photovoltaics: Principles, Key Parameters and Fabrication
  Chandru Thambidurai, Adam Moule, Ruxandra Vidu and Pieter Stroeve.
  Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Davis
• Modeling and Simulation of Thin Film Photovoltaic Deposition
  D. Schmidt¹, J.P. Delplanque¹, P. Stroeve
  ¹Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis
  Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Davis
• Planar Micro-Optic Solar Concentration and Tracking
  Katherine Baker, Jason Karp, Eric Trembay, Brett Nadler, Justin Hallas, Joseph Ford
  Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego
• Solar Energy Storage System Review
  Yu Hou¹ and Pieter Stroeve^{2
  1}Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis
  ²Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis
• Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting
  Kleissl Solar Resource Assessment and Forecasting Lab
  Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego
• The relationship between structure and work function at interfaces with PEDOT:PSS
  David M. Huang, H. Lademamn, J.B. Bonekamp, K. Meerholz, Adams J. Moule
  Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Davis
• Concentrated Solar Drying of Mangoes and Tomatoes: Design for Tanzania
  Diane M. Barrett, Pieter Stroeve, Jim Thompson, Bertha Mjawa
  Student Team: Daniel Schmidt, Simon Li and Caitlin Flint
  Department of Food Science and technology, and Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Davis