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The California Energy Commission has funded a “clean energy” proposal made by Jae Wan Park, an associate professor in the UC Davis Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The project, titled “Demonstration of Community-Scale, Low-Cost, Highly Efficient PV and Energy Management System,” has received a grant of $1.24 million.
The project addresses the major challenges faced as our nation attempts to increase its reliance on solar power: the intermittent nature of solar generation, and resulting grid instability; the imbalance between energy demand and production; and the expense of existing energy storage models. Park and his team plan to develop a smart electrical energy storage (EES) and management system that could reduce a community’s daily average energy demand, during peak times, by up to 87 percent.
More information: engineering.ucdavis.edu/blog/jae-wan-park-awarded-funding...
Jae Wan Park (center), associate professor in the UC Davis Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, with lab researchers (left-right) Kenny Fung (Ph. D student), Antonio Tong (post doc), Matthew Klein (Ph. D student), and Nathaniel Cooper (Ph. D student).
Photo by Katherine Lin/UC Davis College of Engineering
SP15_JaeWanPark_KL-0022
The California Energy Commission has funded a “clean energy” proposal made by Jae Wan Park, an associate professor in the UC Davis Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The project, titled “Demonstration of Community-Scale, Low-Cost, Highly Efficient PV and Energy Management System,” has received a grant of $1.24 million.
The project addresses the major challenges faced as our nation attempts to increase its reliance on solar power: the intermittent nature of solar generation, and resulting grid instability; the imbalance between energy demand and production; and the expense of existing energy storage models. Park and his team plan to develop a smart electrical energy storage (EES) and management system that could reduce a community’s daily average energy demand, during peak times, by up to 87 percent.
More information: engineering.ucdavis.edu/blog/jae-wan-park-awarded-funding...
Jae Wan Park (center), associate professor in the UC Davis Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, with lab researchers (left-right) Kenny Fung (Ph. D student), Antonio Tong (post doc), Matthew Klein (Ph. D student), and Nathaniel Cooper (Ph. D student).
Photo by Katherine Lin/UC Davis College of Engineering