Dan Reicher will be executive director of the Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance
Stanford creates $7 million interdisciplinary Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance
Stanford News, November 30, 2010
A generous gift allows Stanford's graduate business school and law school to combine forces in a one-of-a-kind effort to push clean energy technology to deployment through a focus on policy and finance. The Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance is a new member of the university's wide-ranging energy effort.
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Stanford scientists see the solar future, and it’s all about ‘nanodomes’ and ‘plasmonics’
Stanford Report, January 28, 2011
Researchers in solar energy speak of a day when millions of otherwise fallow square meters of sun-drenched roofs, windows, deserts and even clothing will be integrated with inexpensive solar cells that are many times thinner and lighter than the bulky rooftop panels familiar today.
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Next-generation power grid research funded by Stanford
Stanford Report, November 18, 2010
Four grants totaling $1.2 million will be used to bolster new ideas and projects that promise to improve energy distribution.
The TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy at Stanford is awarding $1.2 million to university researchers to create a greener, more efficient system for delivering electricity through "smart power grid" systems.
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Stanford author recounts how a beleaguered Monterey Bay was brought back to health
Stanford Report, November 12, 2010
How Monterey Bay was transformed from its "era of ill health" portrayed in John Steinbeck's Cannery Row – when the bay was a cesspool of cannery waste – to the vibrantly healthy ecosystem of today is the story told in Stanford Professor Steve Palumbi's new book, "The Death and Life of Monterey Bay: A Story of Revival."
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New solar energy conversion process discovered by Stanford engineers could revamp solar power production
Stanford News Service, August 2 2010
A new process that simultaneously combines the light and heat of solar radiation to generate electricity could offer more than double the efficiency of existing solar cell technology, say the Stanford engineers who discovered it and proved that it works. The process, called "photon enhanced thermionic emission," or PETE, could reduce the costs of solar energy production enough for it to compete with oil as an energy source.
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Stanford's Woods Institute awards new round of Environmental Venture Projects
Stanford Report, June 22, 2010
The Woods Institute for the Environment awarded Environmental Venture Projects grants to four Stanford teams for innovative research that promotes sustainability.