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Faculty & Staff:

Webber, Michael

Associate Director, Center for International Energy & Environmental Policy
Fellow, Strauss Center for International Security and Law
Assistant Professor

http://www.me.utexas.edu/directory/faculty/webber/michael/168/

College or School:
Engineering, Cockrell School of

Department:
Mechanical Engineering (includes Operations Research and Industrial Engineering)

Description:
Michael Webber's research interests include energy systems analysis, renewable and alternative energy, energy policy, the nexus of energy, food and water, algae biofuels, and energy in Texas. Michael is one of the originators of the Pecan Street Project, which is a citywide, multi-institutional effort in Austin to create the utility of the future by the innovation and implementation of smart grids, smart meters, and smart appliances. The Pecan Street Project team includes UT, the City of Austin, and Austin Energy, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Austin Technology Incubator, and eleven corporate partners.

Affiliations:
Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy
IC2 Institute
Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law

Research:

• Algae-Based Biofuels
• ATI Clean Energy Incubator
• Carbon Capture and Sequestration
• Clean Energy in Texas
• Design for Environment: Guidelines for Future Product Design
• Dispatchable Solar, Wind Storage System (DSWISS)
• Energy Use and Opportunities in the Wastewater Treatment Sector
• IGERT: Sustainable Grid Integration of Distributed and Renewable Resources
• Modeling Energy Storage for a Green Yacht
• Nexus of Food and Energy
• Pecan Street Smart Grid Demonstration Project
• Quantifying the Tradeoffs of Energy
• Renewable Resource Assessment for Texas
• Technoeconomic Modeling of Integrating Wind Into the Grid
• The Nexus of Energy and Water in Texas
• Well-to-Wheel Analysis of Innovative Biofuels

Courses:

• Energy and Society
• Energy Technology and Policy
• Energy, Environmnet, and Society
• Engineered World: Energy
• The Engineered World -- Energy
• Water and Society

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