The CITRIS-LBNL-CIEE i4Energy Center focuses on the development of information technology systems that facilitate significant energy and cost savings.
Free and open to the public, the i4Energy Speaker Series is a weekly roundtable of lectures and discussions that highlight these research issues. All talks take place at noon on Fridays in 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, Banatao Auditorium on the UC Berkeley campus, unless otherwise indicated. All talks may be viewed on our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/citrisuc.
Webviewing at UC Davis: 1065 Kemper Hall
Webviewing at UC Merced: SE1 100
Webviewing at UC Santa Cruz: SOE E2 Building, Room 506
SEPTEMBER 2 Photovoltaic Power Efficiency Gain: One Technology that May Make Commercial Sense
Sudip Mukhopadhyay, Honeywell
SEPTEMBER 9 Entirely New and Better Approaches to Conditioning Buildings
Ed Arens, Center for the Built Environment
Link to YouTube video
SEPTEMBER 16 Oops: Unintended Consequences of Some Well-intentioned Decisions about the Electric Power Grid
Alex McEachern, Power Standards Lab
Link to YouTube video
SEPTEMBER 23 The Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Accident: What Happened and What Does It Mean? 
Robert Budnitz, LBNL
Link to YouTube video
SEPTEMBER 30 Quantifying Carbon Footprint Reduction Opportunities for U.S. Households and Communities 
Christopher Jones, UC Berkeley
Link to YouTube video
OCTOBER 7 Bioenergy Sustainability: Want to Get Involved?
Elliott Campbell, UC Merced
Link to YouTube video
OCTOBER 14 Integrated, Energy-Efficient Design in Buildings
Igor Mezic, UC Santa Barbara
Link to YouTube video
OCTOBER 21 What We Can Learn from Modeling the California Cap-and-Trade Policies in the Electricity Market?
Yihsu Chen, UC Merced
* OCTOBER 28 To the Dark Side: Efficiency and Demand Response Through Commercial Building Lighting Controls
Charlie Huizenga, Adura Technologies
Link to YouTube video
* NOVEMBER 4 Smart, Energy Producing and Healthy Homes: Eight European Experiments
Ellen Kathrine Hansen, VKR Holdings
NOVEMBER 11 No seminar due to Veterans’ Day holiday
NOVEMBER 18 Reducing Peak Load on Campus: Distributed Intelligent Automated Demand Response in Sutardja Dai Hall
Therese Peffer and Domenico Caramagno, CIEE and CITRIS
Link to YouTube video
NOVEMBER 25 No seminar due to Thanksgiving holiday
DECEMBER 2 Technology Demonstration Success Stories from the PIER Program: Making End-Use Efficiency Happen
Karl Brown, Deputy Director of CIEE
Link to YouTube video