Abstract:
This presentation will review progress on electricity generation through solar cells. We will cover efficiency, intermittency and capacity factors typical for Midwest installations. Cost/benefit analysis will include rooftop, ground-mount, and carport installations for different ownership models, with and without energy storage options.

Bio:
Wolfgang Bauer, Ph.D., is a professor of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University. His research focuses on renewable power sources, global warming, and computer modeling of non-linear systems at all scales, from collisions of atomic nuclei to the explosions of supernovae. He served as the chairperson of the Department of Physics and Astronomy from 2001 to 2013, and concurrently from 2009 to 2013 as the Founding Director of the Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research. From 2013 to 2020, he was Senior Consultant and Associate Vice President at Michigan State University, leading the university’s energy transition plan projects. He is an author of several leading university physics textbooks, which have also been translated into Chinese, Korean, Spanish, German and Portuguese. His honors include the U.S. Presidential Faculty Fellow Award, the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation Distinguished Senior U.S. Scientist Award, and the ComputerWorld 21st Century Achievement Award for Education and Academia.

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This lab-wide event has been organized by the PSC Environmental Committee Building Ecological Awareness and Mitigation (EcoBEAM). Please reach out to Chris Gorman or Mike Edelen if you wish to schedule time with the speaker.