Understanding how a proposed microgrid would affect customers is critical to deciding whether to deploy such a system and this paper seeks to assess how a microgrid deployment would affect retail electricity rates for ...

The completion of this paper is an excellent summation of my time in the EPC program. I came into the program hoping to compliment my work at the Citizens’ Climate Lobby, which revolves around the implementation of a federal ...

Police commissions are uniquely positioned to funnel critical issues raised by citizens to police departments, thereby increasing accountability and potentially improving police/community relations. However, no empirical ...

Since the public commenting process for proposed federal regulations became primarily web-based, the number of rules receiving extremely high comment volumes has increased substantially; raising concerns about whether ...

This study proposes that policy—supported by innovative technologies in desalination and cogeneration—can be used as a mechanism to facilitate thermal desalination for the relief of water stress without the burden of ...

Despite California’s reputation as a solidly liberal state, there exist deep regional and neighborhood-level divisions in political ideology among voters. Factor analysis has been used in previous research to formulate ...

Scientist now believe with more confidence that human activities contribute substantially to the observed upward trend in hurricane activity. An occasional casualty of hurricanes is energy infrastructure like hazardous ...

Community colleges enroll 40% of all undergraduates and 60% of community college students are independent for financial aid purposes. Independent students, with a number of nontraditional traits, are increasing as high ...

In 2014, the Social and Economic Policy Units (or research units) at the RAND Corporation went through centralization which created new job titles and new job descriptions for research administrators, allowed research units ...

On January 21, 2017, Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie, Ward 5, introduced B22-0092, a bill to impose new regulations on short-terming housing rentals—i.e. Airbnb and others—in order to protect affordable housing supply in the ...