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Energy
Energy represents one of the most important connections between
the things people do and the environment they live in. Throughout
the University of California’s campuses and national labs,
researchers are studying the environmental impacts of our energy
use – to light our homes, operate our workplaces and run our
cars – and ways to conserve and use it more efficiently.
For example, in Berkeley, UC researchers have pioneered
the compact fluorescent light bulb, while UC Davis faculty and students
are designing more energy-efficient cars and fuel cells.
Visit the following sites for a sample of UC energy-related
research and its applications:
UC
Energy Institute
California Institute
for Energy Efficiency
CITRIS / Center for Information Technology Research in the
Interest of Society – energy
applications
Davis Energy Efficiency Center
Institute for Energy Efficiency (UCSB)
Riverside Center
for Environmental Research and Technology
San Diego Center
for Energy Research
Livermore National
Laboratory - Energy and the Environment
Berkeley
National Laboratory Energy Resources Program
Energy
and Environment - Strategic Research
at Los Alamos (LANL)
UC Berkeley Green Building Research Center
Advanced Power and Energy Program
National Fuel Cell Research Center
Irvine Combustion Laboratory
Transportation
Motor vehicles consume a major share of our non-renewable energy sources and contribute significant amounts of pollution. Addressing these environmental challenges requires changes in behavior and transportation system operations and infrastructure and UC researchers are search for solutions along these lines.
The Institute of Transportation Studies, created in 1948, is a multi-campus research group with affliates on the Berkeley, Davis, Irvine and Los Angeles campuses. Through a variety of centers, institute research focuses on transportation planning, logistics, traffic operations, infrastructure management, aviation, transportation economics and finance, intelligent transportation, public transportation, and transportation's environmental impacts.
Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
Los Angeles
California Center for Innovative Transportation
California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) - the nation’s largest program for intelligent transportation research
Transportation Sustainability Research Center
National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR)
Pavement Research Center
Center for Future Urban Transport (sustainable technology strategies)
Traffic Safety Center
More transportation-related research at UC Berkeley:
- UC Transportation Center
- Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional Development
- Berkeley Center for Global Metropolitan Studies
- Energy@Berkeley
Advanced
Highway Maintenance and Construction
Technology Research Center
Riverside Center
for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT)
Center for Sustainable Suburban Development
CITRIS
/ Center for Information Technology Research in the
Interest of Society – transportation
applications
Center
for Urban Forest Research - parking lot shade and
energy reductions
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UC pursues sustainable transportation initiatives
UC
Researchers to Get Second Fuel-Cell Toyota
 Electric
Cars No Longer Science Fiction
UC Irvine researchers are using a fleet of electric cars and tracking
devices to put in motion a program that responds to transportation
congestion and sustaining air quality. 
Video
Center
for Information
Technology Research in
the Interest of Society
CITRIS - a consortium of the four UC campuses at Berkeley, Davis,
Merced and Santa Cruz that forms one of the new California Institutes
for Science and Innovation – sponsors collaborative information
technology research that will ultimately provide solutions in the
areas of energy efficiency and transportation as well as education,
health care and other environmental issues such as environmental
monitoring and seismic safety.
For example, a network of tiny, inexpensive sensors can make buildings
vastly more energy efficient, saving as much as $55 billion in energy
costs nationally and 35 million tons of carbon emissions each year.
In California alone, this translates into a savings of $8 billion
in energy costs.
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