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Renewables

Renewable energy is a promising path to dealing with climate change, but presents challenges and dilemmas of its own.  Many Switzer Fellows are guiding the nation's thinking about the role renewables could play in our future.

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Keeping Solar Clean
Keeping Solar Clean

Producing electricity from the sun with solar panels seems like the perfect solution to our energy needs.  But solar panels can also create problems for the environment. Switzer Fellow Dustin Mulvaney believes there are win-win solutions out there.Read more >

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Fellows in the News

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Law Students for Climate Accountability exposes UK legal industry’s fossil fuel work
Fellows in the News | Apr 17, 2023
Rand’s research finds long waits and low completion rates for projects seeking to join electric grid
Fellows in the News | Mar 21, 2023
Gallagher’s research results in Global Public Energy RD&D Expenditures Database

Related Grants

Director of Local Energy Solutions
Year: 2017
Region: New England
New Hampshire Sustainable Energy Association (NHSEA) hired Henry Herndon as its first Director of Local Energy Solutions with support from the Switzer Foundation. NHSEA, based in Concord, New Hampshire, is a statewide non-profit dedicated to the advancement of clean energy throughout the state...Read more >
Analyzing the Potential of Micro Hydropower
Year: 2013
Region: International
International Rivers received a $40,000 Leadership Grant to create a new position for Dipti Vaghela as Energy Solutions Coordinator. In this position, Dipti will integrate with staff in the organization's Energy Solutions and Climate programs to analyze the potential for micro hydropower as an...Read more >
Clean and Just Solar Energy Initiative, Year 3
Year: 2011
Region: California
Dustin Mulvaney will continue his research into the safety and sustainability of the solar photovoltaic industry for a third year. Dustin and Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) will build on the momentum of the past two years of Dustin's role as Research Scientist on the Clean and Just...Read more >

Featured Fellows

John J. Berger
John Berger
1988 Fellow
Author/Consultant
John J. Berger & Associates
Urvi Dunnington
Urvi Dunnington
2008 Fellow
Renewable Energy Lead
Facebook, Inc
Joe Aldy
Joe Aldy
2003 Fellow
Professor of the Practice of Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School

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