ERGBerkeley

@ERGBerkeley

UCB Energy & Resources Group. An interdisciplinary program devoted to elucidating, analyzing, and solving the complex resource concerns. RT/Fav ≠ Endorsement.

Berkeley, California erg.berkeley.edu Joined October 2012

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ERGBerkeley @ERGBerkeley Oct 28

A new @PNASNews study led by ERG and @GoldmanSchool researchers finds that connecting new clean energy resources or battery storage at existing interconnection points could help utilities rapidly integrate new supply to meet rising power demand. erg.berkeley.edu/news/study-exi…

Power plant with multiple tall smokestacks and industrial processing towers behind a dry grassy field.

ERGBerkeley @ERGBerkeley Mar 9

For a recent Science Advances study, ERG postdoc Johan Eckdahl reconstructed emissions from more than 300 wildfires in Sweden. His results suggest that current climate estimates fail to fully account for carbon released from smoldering organic soils. news.berkeley.edu/2026/02/27/we-…

news.berkeley.edu We may be underestimating the true carbon cost of northern wildfires - Berkeley News A study led by a UC Berkeley researcher reconstructed emissions from Swedish wildfires and found that current climate estimates are failing to fully account for carbon released from smoldering...

ERGBerkeley @ERGBerkeley Jul 23, 2025

"It is now cheaper to build a new clean energy power plant than to simply operate an existing fossil fuel plant has contributed greatly to this evolution," @dan_kammen, a Professor of the Graduate School, recently told @Newsweek. newsweek.com/california-hit…

www.newsweek.com California hits "historic" energy milestone Despite California's expansion of clean energy use, Texas leads in producing the most electricity from renewable energy sources.

ERGBerkeley @ERGBerkeley May 14, 2025

Congratulations to ERG alum @maliniranga, PhD '15, on receiving the Critical Urban Anthropology Association's Anthony Leeds Book Prize for her latest book, Corruption Plots. The book was co-authored with David Pike and Sapana Doshi. erg.berkeley.edu/malini-rangana…

ERGBerkeley @ERGBerkeley May 7, 2025

The @mercnews recently spoke to ERG alum Beth Zotter, MS '04, about co-founding Umaro Foods and their work turning seaweed into bacon, biodegradable plastics, and more. mercurynews.com/2025/04/18/the…

www.mercurynews.com The Bay Area startup behind Shark Tank’s seaweed-based bacon Umaro Foods is betting that soon, the world’s going to be eating a whole lot more seaweed protein.