LISTSERV: Cal-IRES News

Our latest blog (http://cal-ires.blogspot.com/) answers the question of what Cal-IRES does and summarizes some recent activities by our core team, associates, advisors, and sponsors, with links to applicable sites, documents and presentations. We hope you will find the summary, and especially the shared items, of interest. We invite you to engage in similar ways. We have also archived prior Cal-IRES News on the blog site for reference, in reverse chronological order. Other relevant news:

On September 2, 2010, the CPUC approved nine grant recipients of the California Solar Initiative (CSI) RD&D Solicitation #2, for a total of up to $14.6 million, funds previously authorized. The solicitation focused on improved photovoltaic (PV) production technologies and innovative business practices. UCD’s West Village Energy Initiative, which aims to be one of the first large scale communities to achieve net zero energy through energy efficiency and onsite generation, was awarded $2.5 million. See http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PUBLISHED/NEWS_RELEASE/123039.htm, and note that Cal-IRES supported the proposal development and provided scoping for specific integration research in the West Village Energy Initiative context.

We continue to post upcoming events related to renewable energy integration on our web site, such as Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) Fall 2010 Speaker Series at UC Davis. These seminars are free, open to the public and run weekly September through December. CITRIS is a multi-campus UC initiative involving UCB, UCD, UCM and UCSD.