Workplace EV charging congestion threatens corporate decarbonisation targets. Asensio, Apablaza, Lawson and Walsh (Georgia Tech; EPIcenter affiliate Omar I. Asensio) examine whether a tiered price of $1 per hour after 4 hours and injunctive “charging-etiquette” emails can curb charger over-stay across 105 stations and 84 employees. High-frequency session data are analyzed with sharp and dynamic […]
Federal housing block grants may be an untapped tool for energy-efficiency policy. EPIcenter affiliate Omar Asensio and his coauthors Churkina, Rafter and O’Hare (Georgia Tech, Harvard Business School and Georgia State University) link 5.9 million monthly utility bills with 16 years of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships projects in Albany, GA […]
How can a country minimize long-term power-system costs when future electricity demand is uncertain? Yuang Chen (PhD ISyE Georgia Tech and now assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong at Shenzhen), Beste Basciftci (PhD ISyE Georgia Tech and now assistant professor at the University of Iowa) and Georgia Tech’s Valerie M. Thomas (an […]
When a hurricane is coming, can a city with lots of electric cars top-up all those batteries fast enough without frying the local power grid? Three Georgia Tech engineers—Alejandro Owen Aquino, Samuel Talkington and EPIcenter affiliate Daniel Molzahn—built a computer model to find out. Using realistic-but-not-real data from Greensboro, North Carolina, the model shows that […]
The assistant professor in industrial engineering brings a math and computer science-rooted background to fundamental challenges as the world moves away from fossil fuels. Constance Crozier fell into her field of research almost by chance. Having loved math for as long as she can remember, she could never get enough of it. In her early […]