Current Research Projects (2024-25)
Distributed Energy Resource Innovation Initiative
A research and action partnership with Great River Energy and its member cooperatives studying real-time, rural energy transitions.
Started 2022
Learning from Past Market Transformations
Looking at past market transformations to glean best practices for deploying distributed energy resources.
Started 2024
Weatherization Assistance Program Map
Working with the Minnesota Department of Commerce to analyze and display weatherization activites.
Started 2024
Utility Innovation Practices
Working with Grid Catalyst, researching how technology innovation, pilots, and startups can work better with utilities
Started 2024
Aligning Food Production and Solar
Uncovering the potential for co-locating solar and farmland while maximizing social benefits
Started 2021
Uncovering Energy Insecurity
Partnering across four universities, examining disconnections, energy assistance programs, and energy-limiting behaviors in the United States
Started 2022
Community Shared Solar Tracking
Reseaching the ongoing deployment of community shared solar with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Started 2018