ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT AFFILIATES PROGRAM

OPPORTUNITIES IN ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

MAY 4 AND 5, 2011MACKENZIE ROOM, JEN-HSUN HUANG ENGINEERING CENTER

SPRING 2011 CONFERENCE

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Welcome

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Welcome to the Energy and Environment Affiliates Program Spring 2011 Conference. The Affiliates Program connects people from industry with Stanford University scientists and engineers engaged in cutting-edge energy and environmental research.

This two-day conference offers a rare opportunity to learn about some of the most exciting research on campus, meet with Stanford faculty and graduate students, and network with other organizations like yours. For Stanford faculty, it’s an opportunity to put their research in front of companies and develop new relationships with industry leaders.

The May 4 morning session will focus on energy, beginning with a panel discussion on energy innovation leadership in California, followed by presentations on new research in photovoltaics, batteries, nanotechnologies, and fuel cells. The afternoon session will look at environmental research, with presentations on renewable “green” materials, water and infrastructure, and natural capital.

The May 5 session is aptly titled, “Putting the Smart in Smart Grid.” Stanford experts will discuss the benefits, challenges, and opportunities of developing a smart grid and designing energy-efficient smart buildings.

The Energy and Environment Affiliates Program is relatively new, so we are still building the membership. We hope to add new members from a broad range of industries, including traditional and renewable energy, utilities, construction, consumer electronics, and many others. Our vision for the program is to create a large and vibrant community of many companies that addresses the specific interests of each member. We are well on our way toward meeting that goal. With your participation, we will get there very soon.

Thank you and enjoy the conference.

Best regards,

Steve EglashExecutive DirectorEnergy and Environment Affiliates Program

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Conference AgendaMay 4—Energy and Environment

8:00 am Breakfast

8:30 am Welcome Steve Eglash, Stanford

8:40 am Energy Session Introduction Lynn Orr, Stanford

9:00 am California’s energy innovation leadership: what’s next? With panelists Holly Gordon, SunRun; Wendy Pulling, PG&E; Cathy Sandoval, California Public Utilities Commission

Ralph Cavanagh, Natural Resources Defense Council (moderator)

10:00 am Break

10:20 am Overview of Bay Area PV Consortium Yi Cui, Stanford

10:30 am Organic photovoltaics and other applications of organic materials Mike McGehee, Stanford

11:10 am Batteries, solar cells, and water filters with nanomaterials Yi Cui, Stanford

11:50 am Nanostructured catalysts for chemical transformations in energy Tom Jaramillo, Stanford

12:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm Why fuel cells are hard to beat, and why they have a hard time getting accepted Fritz Prinz, Stanford

2:10 pm Environmental Session Introduction Buzz Thompson, Stanford

2:30 pm Sustainable and renewable materials Sarah Billington, Stanford

3:10 pm Break

3:30 pm Water and infrastructure Dick Luthy, Stanford

4:10 pm Natural capital Gretchen Daily, Stanford

4:50 pm Wrap-up Steve Eglash, Stanford

5:00 pm Reception and student poster session

6:00 pm Event ends

May 5—Putting the Smart in Smart Grid8:00 am Breakfast

8:30 am Welcome Steve Eglash, Stanford

8:40 am Keynote address: Maximizing the benefits of a smart grid Frank Wolak, Stanford

9:20 am Sensing, control, and communication for smart grids: challenges and opportunities

Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford

9:50 am GridSpice Amit Narayan, Stanford

10:20 am Break

10:40 am Energy efficient smart buildings and demand response Martin Fischer, Stanford

11:10 am Real-time embedded optimization for the smart grid Stephen Boyd, Stanford

11:35 am Online learning and demand response Dan O’Neill, Stanford

12:00 pm Wrap-up Steve Eglash, Stanford

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About the Energy and Environment Affiliates ProgramThe Energy and Environment Affiliates Program is a partnership between member industrial firms and Stanford University. The program supports advanced research, policy study, outreach, and education across a broad range of issues at the intersection of energy and environmental science, technology, and policy.

The Affiliates Program is primarily about establishing a relationship and the exchange of ideas. Member companies come from a wide range of industries, including building and construction, communications, computer, consumer electronics, instrument, legal, engineered materials, oil and gas, semiconductor, semiconductor equipment, solar, utilities, and venture capital.

Companies benefit from access to emerging technology, out-of-the-box thinking, and innovative problem solving. Stanford benefits from exposure to practical real-world problems, constraints, and opportunities.

Program ScopeThe scope of the Affiliates Program is broad and encompasses basic physics, chemistry, and materials science; natural resources and biological systems; complex engineered systems, such as sustainable buildings and the electric power grid; and societal aspects, such as human behavior, regulatory issues, and public policy.

In addressing these topics, the Affiliates Program balances broad coverage of interdisciplinary topics with in-depth treatment of specific focus areas that evolve over time in response to the interests of program members and Stanford faculty. Current focus areas include solar photovoltaic, advanced materials for energy applications, smart grid, sensors and sensing in extreme environments, freshwater, oceans, natural capital, and the built environment.

The Affiliates Program works closely with leading energy and environment research organizations across the Stanford campus, including the Precourt Institute for Energy, the Woods Institute for the Environment, the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, and many others.

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“The Stanford Energy and Environment Affiliates Program is a membership program that helps corporations and other organizations to engage with Stanford faculty and students who are working on research related to energy and the environment. The Affiliates Program is designed to establish relationships and facilitate communication with the broader community beyond Stanford who share their interests in these important issues.”Ann Arvin, Dean of Research, Stanford University

“The Stanford Energy and Environment Affiliates Program is a membership program that helps corporations and other organizations to engage with Stanford faculty and students who are working on research related to energy and the environment. The Affiliates Program is designed to establish relationships and facilitate communication with the broader community beyond Stanford who share their interests in these important issues.”Ann Arvin, Dean of Research, Stanford University

Benefits of Affiliates MembershipEnergy and environmental research is a major theme at Stanford and is found in nearly every academic discipline. Stanford emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach, recognizing that energy and environmental research activities are interwoven within the fabric of nearly all Stanford academics.

Finding Research Germane to Your InterestsIt can be difficult for those outside the Stanford community to quickly grasp the scope of energy and environment research activities on campus or to understand where specific research is being conducted in a particular area of commercial interest. Among the benefits that the Energy and Environment Affiliates Program aims to deliver to our members is assistance in understanding what specific research is taking place at Stanford, who is conducting it, and how to engage directly with those activities.

For details, visit the Affiliates Program website at eeap.stanford.edu.

Member BenefitsAffiliates Program members are entitled to the full range of benefits, including:

• Support for Ph.D. student research through participation in the Fellow-Mentor-Advisor Program;

• In-depth interactions with faculty and graduate students;• Company visits by faculty and graduate students;• Facilitated graduate student recruiting opportunities;• Access to research papers and computer models;• Use of a directory of Stanford research activities in

energy and the environment;• Opportunity to establish a visiting scientist at Stanford; and• Invitations to Affiliates Program symposia and semi-annual conferences, including the following

scheduled events:Fall 2011 Includes a session on advanced materials for energy applicationsSpring 2012 Includes sessions on sensors and sensing in extreme environments

Fellow-Mentor-Advisor ProgramAffiliates Program membership includes participation in the Fellow-Mentor-Advisor (FMA) Program. The goal of the FMA Program is to establish a relationship between a Ph.D. student (“Fellow”), an employee of the company (“Mentor”), and a professor (“Advisor”). A portion of the annual membership fee is given to a professor of the company’s choosing to help support a Ph.D. Fellow. The Affiliates Program can assist the company in making this choice.

The FMA Program is about creating a relationship. It is not sponsored research, but it is an opportunity for the company to get close to the professor, the student, and the student’s research.

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Become a Member

Membership in the Energy and Environment Affiliates Program is US$150,000 per year. Affiliates Program revenue is used to support Ph.D. student research, symposia and workshops, seed projects, equipment purchases, faculty and graduate student travel, and program operations. One FMA Program allocation is included in the annual membership fee. Companies can obtain additional FMA Program allocations for US$75,000 each.

Contact InformationSteve EglashExecutive Director, Energy and Environment Affiliates ProgramEmail: seglash@stanford.eduPhone: 650-721-1637Mobile: 650-799-2267

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Connecting Stanford’s energy and environmental research with corporations and other external organizations

Steve Eglash is responsible for developing and managing interactions for corporations and other organizations that have an interest in Stanford’s research, faculty, and graduate students in energy-related and environmental fields. His background is in renewable energy, business, technology, and finance. Eglash was president and CEO of Cyrium Technologies, a solar energy startup company, and a consultant and advisor to

the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University, and a BS degree from U.C. Berkeley, all in electrical engineering.

About Steve Eglash

Speaker Biographies

Sarah Billington’s research focuses on sustainable, durable construction materials and their application to structures and construction. Two current areas of focus are damage-tolerant, high-performance fiber-reinforced cementitious composite materials, and bio-based fiber-reinforced polymeric composites that have a closed loop lifecycle. Additional research in her group includes performance-based durability engineering, performance-based earthquake engineering assessment of self-centering bridge piers for seismic design, and advanced nonlinear simulation of structural concrete systems.

Sarah Billington Associate Professor, Stanford Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Stephen Boyd’s current research focus is on convex optimization applications in control, signal processing, and circuit design. He has received many awards and honors for his research in control systems engineering and optimization, including an ONR Young Investigator Award and a Presidential Young Investigator Award. Boyd received his Ph.D. in EECS from U.C. Berkeley in 1985. After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the faculty of Stanford’s Electrical Engineering Department.

Stephen Boyd Samsung Professor of Engineering, Information Systems Laboratory Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering

Gretchen Daily is one of three founders of the Natural Capital Project. She is working with leaders worldwide to advance a scientific basis - and political and institutional support - for harmonizing human activities and nature. Daily’s research is on quantifying the multiple values of landscapes for sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services, such as food production, fresh water provision, climate stability, and flood security. Her policy-oriented outreach is aimed at developing new policy and finance mechanisms for embedding these values into major resource decisions. She serves on the boards of The Nature Conservancy and the Beijer International Institute for Ecological Economics, and at Stanford she is the director of the Center for Conservation Biology and is a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Gretchen Daily Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Stanford Department of Biology Co-Director, Natural Capital Project

Ralph Cavanagh Co-Director, Natural Resources Defense Council Energy Program

Ralph Cavanagh is a senior attorney and co-director of NRDC’s energy program, which he joined in 1979. In addition, Ralph has been a visiting professor of law at Stanford and U.C. Berkeley, and from 1993-2003 he served as a member of the U.S. Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board. His current board memberships include the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, California Clean Energy Fund, Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, Renewable Northwest Project, Northwest Energy Coalition, and the Energy Center of Wisconsin. He is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale Law School.

Yi Cui Associate Professor, Stanford Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Yi Cui’s research is focused on nanomaterials for energy storage, photovotalics, topological insulators, biology and environment. He is currently a principal investigator on two Stanford Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) efforts involving solar cells and batteries. Cui has been at Stanford since 2005. Prior to joining Stanford, he was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Paul Alivisatos at U.C. Berkeley. His postdoctoral work was mainly on electronics and assembly using colloidal nanocrystals. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002 where he investigated semiconductor nanowires for nanotechnology including synthesis, nanoelectronics and nanosensor applications.

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Speaker BiographiesMartin Fischer Professor, Stanford Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Director, Center for Integrated Facility Engineering

Martin Fischer’s research goals are to improve the productivity of project teams involved in designing, building, and operating facilities and to enhance the sustainability of the built environment. His work develops the theoretical foundations and applications for virtual design and construction (VDC). VDC methods support the design of a facility and its delivery process and helps reduce the costs and maximizes the value over its lifecycle. His research has been used by many small and large industrial government organizations around the world. He is a Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy.

Andrea Goldsmith Professor, Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering

Andrea Goldsmith’s research includes work on design and capacity analysis of wireless systems and networks, cognitive radios, sensor and “green” networks, cross‐layer wireless network design, and applications of communications and signal processing to health and neuroscience. She is author of the book Wireless Communications and co‐author of the book MIMO Wireless Communications. While on leave from Stanford, she founded and served as CTO of Quantenna Communications Inc., a semiconductor company developing next-generation wireless network technology. She also previously held industry positions at Maxim Technologies, Memorylink Corporation, and AT&T Bell Laboratories. She received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from U.C. Berkeley.

Holly Gordon serves as SunRun’s lead on all federal and state legislative and regulatory work ensuring SunRun’s affordable solar power service is available to the most consumers possible. Holly came to SunRun from Ausra, a utility-scale solar thermal company, where she served as the lead on all federal and state legislative and regulatory work. While at Ausra, Holly helped form and was President of the Large-scale Solar Association. Prior to Ausra, Holly worked and taught at the Stanford Law School Environmental Law Clinic focused on environmental and energy related legal issues. Holly received a J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law and a B.A. in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.

Holly Gordon Vice President, Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, SunRun

Tom Jaramillo’s research group works in the area of solar fuels, seeking to harness solar energy in order to chemically convert CO2 into usable liquid fuels (for example methanol or iso-octane) in a renewable, sustainable manner. To accomplish this challenging goal, the group focuses on understanding the chemistry of materials both at their surface and within their bulk in order to engineer nano-scaled materials for light-harvesting and/or catalytic chemical conversion. We adopt a similar approach for materials involved in the consumption of energy in order to improve their efficiency as well. Jaramillo received his M.S. and Ph.D. chemical engineering degrees from U.C. Santa Barbara, in 2000 and 2004 respectively.

Tom Jaramillo Assistant Professor, Stanford Department of Chemical Engineering

Dick Luthy’s area of teaching and research is environmental engineering and water quality. His research interests include physicochemical processes and applied aquatic chemistry, with application to water reuse and management of contaminates in sediment. Current projects address the role of natural systems to enhance water quality and the potential for water reuse to benefit ecosystem habitat and urban aesthetics. His research emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to understand the environmental behavior and availability of organic contaminants and the application of these approaches to the control of contaminant bioavailability and the improvement of water and sediment quality. He s a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Richard Luthy Silas H. Palmer Professor of Civil Engineering Stanford Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Mike McGehee Associate Professor, Stanford Department of Materials Science and Engineering Director, Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics

Michael McGehee’s primary research interests are organic semiconductors, patterning materials at the nanometer length scale and renewable energy. He pursues all of these interests by making nanostructured organic-inorganic photovoltaic cells. His research group develops novel methods of nanofabrication and studies exciton diffusion, electron transfer and charge transport in the photovoltaic cells. Mike received his Ph.D. in materials science in 1999 from U.C. Santa Barbara. He is a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Lynn Orr has been the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy since its establishment in 2009. His research focuses on understanding the physical mechanisms that control displacement performance in gas injection processes for oil recovery and for storage of greenhouse gases like CO2 in oil and gas reservoirs, deep formations that contain salt water, and coal beds. He is working to develop efficient and accurate computational tools for prediction of flow performance at field scale in subsurface heterogeneous rocks. He served as director of Stanford’s Global Climate and Energy Project from 2002 to 2008. Orr was the Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford from 1994 to 2002. He has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1985. He is a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Franklin “Lynn” Orr Director, Precourt Institute for Energy Keleen and Carlton Beal Professor in Petroleum Engineering

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Amit Narayan Senior Research Engineer, Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering

Amit Narayan’s research focuses on smart grid technologies, renewable energy generation and grid integration, utility scale storage, distributed energy resources and electric vehicles. Before coming to Stanford, Narayan was vice president of product development at Magma Design Automation, where he led a global R&D team responsible for Magma’s flagship products in design implementation. Over one-third of all consumer electronic ICs used in applications such as smart-phones, video games, and mobile devices use semiconductor chips designed by his team at Magma. From 2001, he was the founder and CEO of Berkeley Design Automation, subsequently focusing his role to vice president of engineering as the company grew. He received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from U.C. Berkeley.

Daniel C. O’Neill Consulting Professor, Stanford Department of Electrical Engineering

Daniel O’Neill’s research centers on finding, analyzing, and implementing algorithms to manage, optimize and control complex systems in stochastic environments when the statistics of the underlying randomness are unknown or can change dramatically. His research focuses on three areas: communications networks; smart grid demand response; and demand-driven power control in systems. His approach uses techniques from stochastic approximation, stochastic optimization, approximate-dynamic programming and unsupervised learning. Practical applications allow system operators to manage the performance tradeoffs of their network both from the perspective of the customer and from the perspective of optimizing network efficiency.

Fritz Prinz obtained his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Vienna, Austria. His current work focuses on scaling effects and quantum confinement phenomena for energy conversion. His graduate students study mass transport phenomena across thin membranes such as oxide films and lipid bi-layers. The Prinz research group employs Scanning Probe Microscopy, Impedance Spectroscopy, and Quantum Modeling. In his laboratory, prototype fuel cells, solar cells, and batteries serve to test new concepts and novel material structures. He is a Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy.

Fritz Prinz Finmeccanica Professor & Robert Bosch Chair of Mechanical Engineering Director, Rapid Prototyping Laboratory

Wendy Pulling Director, Environmental Policy, PG&E

Wendy Pulling is the Director of Environmental Policy at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) in San Francisco. Among her other duties, she is responsible for PG&E’s environmental stakeholder engagement. In addition, she leads PG&E’s efforts to develop and implement PG&E’s environmental leadership strategies and programs. Prior to joining PG&E, Wendy worked as an Assistant Regional Counsel at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as a Senior Attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. She is Chair of the Board of Audubon California, a member of the Board of Sustainable Conservation, and serves on the Green Advisory Board of the California League of Conservation Voters. Wendy has a degree in history from Princeton University and a law degree from Stanford University. She is a member of the California State Bar.

Catherine Sandoval was appointed to the California Public Utilities Commission on January 25, 2011. She has worked as an associate professor at Santa Clara University School of Law since 2004. She previously served as undersecretary and senior policy advisor for housing with the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency from 2001 to 2004. She was vice president and general counsel with Z-Spanish Media Corporation from 1999 to 2001 and was the director of the Office of Communications Business Opportunities for the Federal Communications Commission from 1994 to 1999. Commissioner Sandoval was an associate with Munger, Tolles & Olson from 1991 to 1994. She earned a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a Master of Letters in political science from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a B.A. from Yale.

Catherine J. K. Sandoval Commissioner, California Public Utilities Commission Associate Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law

Buzz Thompson, founding co-director of the Woods Institute, is a leading expert on environmental and natural resources law and policy. His current scholarship focuses on water policy, ecosystem services, climate adaptation, conservation tools, and market and other alternative approaches to environmental regulation. Thompson chairs the boards of the Resources Legacy Fund and Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, serves as a California trustee for The Nature Conservancy, and is a member of the boards of the American Farmland Trust and the Natural Heritage Institute. He also is a member of the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, for which he chairs the committee on the valuation of ecological systems and services.

Barton “Buzz” Thompson Jr. Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment Robert E. Paradise Professor in Natural Resources Law, Stanford Law School

Frank Wolak Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies, Stanford Department of Economics Director, Stanford Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

Frank A. Wolak’s fields of specialization are industrial organization and econometric theory. His recent work studies methods for introducing competition into infrastructure industries – telecommunications, electricity, water delivery and postal delivery services – and on assessing the impacts of these competition policies on consumer and producer welfare. He is the Chairman of the Market Surveillance Committee of the California Independent System Operator for electricity supply industry in California. He is a visiting scholar at University of California Energy Institute and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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