Agenda/Presentations
2018 UC Solar Research Symposium
Friday, October 19th, 2018, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
California Public Utilities Commission Auditorium
505 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94102
| 8:00 – 8:45 | Attendee Check In/Poster Session |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Opening Remarks Kristin Ralff Douglas, Acting Director, Policy & Planning Division, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | "Quantum Dots for Solar Energy Conversion" Matthew Law, Director of the Center for Solar Energy, UC Irvine |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | "Publications in Applied Energy and Global Research in Solar Photovoltaic Applications" Hong-xing Yang, Associate Editor, International Journal of Applied Energy and Professor and Coordinator, Renewable Energy Research Group, Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | "Landmines or Easter Eggs? The Regulatory Landscape for Distributed Solar and Storage" Scott Murtishaw, Consultant, California Solar & Storage Association (CALSSA) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning Break and Poster Session |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | "Photo-Thermal Engineering for Clean Energy and Water Applications" Ravi Prasher, Division Director, Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division and Associate Lab Director, Energy Technologies Office, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | "The Solar Thermal Energy Program at UC Merced" Roland Winston, UC Solar Director and Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Natural Sciences, UC Merced |
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | "The Value Proposition of GaN in Rooftop PV Inverters" Umesh Mishra , Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC Santa Barbara |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | "California's EPIC Progress and the Opportunities Ahead" Laurie ten Hope, Deputy Director, Energy Research and Development Division, California Energy Commission (CEC) |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Afternoon Break and Poster Session |
| 3:00 – 3:30 | "Demonstration of Flow Batteries for the Prevention of Minimum Import Violations" Alfredo Martinez-Morales, Managing Director of the Southern California-Research Initiative for Solar Energy (SC-RISE), UC Riverside |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | "Solar Success and Challenges on the UC's Path to Carbon Neutrality by 2025" David Phillips, Associate Vice President for Energy and Sustainability, UC Office of the President (UCOP) |
