What the center is working on right now — the questions before they become papers.
How renewable generation is forecast, dispatched, and kept resilient — from a single building to the grid.
Machine-learning forecasts of renewable generation: solar output predicted from satellite cloud imagery, and short-term wind forecasting that schedules green-hydrogen production (with MIRDC).
Network-design frameworks that minimize cost and line losses, and storage strategies that keep microgrids running through extreme weather — including the Beitou–Shilin Technology Park microgrid as a living case study.
Optimization models for multi-site energy storage that fold in real building demand and cost, comparing stochastic and deterministic dispatch — plus the economics of hydrogen fuel cells.
What storage and V2X are actually worth: benefit evaluation grounded in weather, electricity-market structure, and site type, supported by campus-scale electricity-use simulation.
Cutting carbon where freight moves and fuels are made.
How low-carbon freight systems are architected: network structure and transshipment scheduling that move goods with fewer vehicles, fewer kilometers, and less carbon.
Where charging infrastructure should go: siting and sizing chargers for electric fleets and logistics hubs so operations keep running while grids stay within limits.
Emission-aware routing for last-mile and cold-chain delivery, balancing delivery windows, temperature requirements, and carbon in one optimization.
The carbon footprint of warehousing across its life cycle, and how digital transformation redistributes emissions between warehouses and transport.
Life-cycle and techno-economic assessment of the fuels set to replace oil in shipping and aviation: marine alternative fuels and sustainable aviation fuel pathways (power-to-liquid and HEFA).
Data-driven evaluation of energy-transition strategies — their environmental, economic, and public-health consequences.
Econometric and quasi-experimental evidence on what transition policies actually deliver: isolating the real decarbonization effects of infrastructure and policy interventions, rather than assuming them.
Tracing energy and emission scenarios through to air quality and public-health outcomes, so policies are judged by their full downstream consequences.
How capital flows to the transition: financing instruments and investment signals that move decarbonization from plan to balance sheet.
The safety dimension of changing mobility systems, analyzed with the same data-driven rigor the center applies to emissions.