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October 5 marks Energy Efficiency Day, a nationwide campaign that celebrates the benefits of sustainable energy use. The CIEE team is certainly no stranger to efficiency–in fact, here are some of the ways they conserve energy in their daily lives.

Dr. Alexandra “Sascha” von Meier talks about the state of California’s grid alongside experts from UC Berkeley and The New York Times.

The CIEE senior advisor offers pragmatic advice on averting rolling blackouts in a recent SF Chronicle article.

Amid a record-setting heatwave, the CITRIS Climate initiative faculty director points to climate change as a critical problem.

According to the CIEE senior advisor, grid modernization is not a matter of if, but when.

The CITRIS Climate faculty director is developing new ways to protect threatened infrastructure, per a recent story in Civil Engineering Magazine.

As CIEE clocks in over three decades of public-interest energy research, we look back at some of the key milestones that have helped shape the organization today.

CIEE postdoctoral scholar Dr. Miriam Aczel recently spoke at the book launch of “The Palgrave Handbook of Natural Gas and Global Energy Transitions,” which offers an authoritative examination of the implications of ongoing global energy transitions for natural gas markets across the world.

The Inflation Reduction Act contains the most ambitious strategy for climate change and clean energy production. While the details are still being sorted out, one thing is clear—this is welcome news in the fight against climate change, and an opportunity to double down on working towards a cleaner, greener, and more equitable planet.

CIEE Associate Director Dr. Therese Peffer discusses the Oakland EcoBlock project as a pathway to scalable, equitable energy at the 2022 MIT A+B Applied Energy Symposium.