The Webber Energy Group

Energy

Energy Systems

Energy & Water

Energy & Food

Waste to Energy

Alternative Transportation Fuels

Renewable Energy

Energy Storage

Energy Technology & Policy

Welcome to the Webber Energy Group

The Webber Energy Group is Professor Webber's research group at the University of Texas at Austin.  We are part of the Cockrell School of Engineering, the Clean Energy Incubator, the Jackson School of Geosciences and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.  We analyze energy problems at the intersection of science, engineering, and public policy.  Our research at the University of Texas can be organized into four broad topical areas:

 

1)   The Energy-Water Nexus

2)   Dynamic Modeling of Complicated Energy Systems (including the smart grid)

3)   Alternative Transportation Fuels (electricity, algae and natural gas)

4)   The Nexus of Food, Waste and Energy

Announcements

January
 
Dr. Michael Webber's article "Moving Beyond Gridlock" is published in the January issue of ASME's Tech Buzz.  Click here to read article.
 
December

Comparative Energy Conference 

December 17, 2012    8:30am - 5:30pm   AT&T Conference Center, Austin, TX

FranceUSConfHeadlineMapThis conference, organized and hosted by Dr. Webber, brought together representatives from academia, industry, government, and the media from the USA and France to discuss a variety of topics related to energy policies and technologies. This conference compared and contrasted the energy landscape in the USA and France around four core topics: shale gas production; the grid (including nuclear, smart grid, renewables and energy efficiency); public policy; and media coverage.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
October 2012
 
Webber Energy Group members, Emily Grubert, Fred Beach and Michael Webber, have a published paper and video abstract titled "Can Switching Fuels Save Water? A Life Cycle Quantification of Freshwater Consumption for Texas Coal- and Natural Gas-Fired Electricity" in Environmental Research Letters,Vol 7 No 4 (2012).  For paper and video abstract: http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/4/045801
 
September 2012
 
Webber Energy Group member, Kelly Twomey Sanders and Michael Webber, have a published paper and video abstract titled “Evaluating the energy intensity of water in the United States,” in Environmental Research Letters,Vol 7 No 3 (12pp) (2012).  For paper and video abstract:  http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/3/034034.
 
Webber Energy Group members, Chioke Harris and Michael Webber, have a published paper and video abstract titled "A temporal assessment of vehicle use patterns and their impact on the provision of vehicle-to-grid services" in Environmental Research Letters. For article and video, click http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/7/3/034033
 
Five Webber Energy Group members contributed to recent Water Environment Research article:  "Energy Return on Investment for Algal Biofuel Production Coupled with Wastewater Treatment", Beal, Colin M.; Stillwell, Ashlynn S.; King, Carey W.; Cohen, Stuart M.; Berberoglu, Halil; Bhattarai, Rajendra P.; Connelly, Rhykka L.; Webber, Michael E.; Hebner, Robert E. Water Environment Research, Volume 84, Number 9, September 2012 , pp. 692-710(19)  Click here to read article
 
August 2012
 
The Webber Energy Group is proud to announce that three more of our members are now doctors having successfuly completed their PhD studies this August!  Congratulations Dr. Stuart Cohen, Dr. Benjamin Gully and Dr. Nathan Putnam.
 
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WTPSpeakers sThe recent Water, Technology and Policy course hosted by the University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School was held August 9th and was extremely well received.  Keep your eyes open for a repeat of this course in 2013!
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July 2012
 
The New York Times printed an Op-Ed by Dr. Webber, "Will Drought Cause the Next Blackout?," July 23, 2012, Read Article.
 
June 2012
 
KLRU Broadcast Premiere of Energy at the Movies™ Dr. Michael Webber's entertaining multi-media lecture filmed at the historical Austin City Limits Studio 6A.
 
March 2012

The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering features an article and video about The Webber Energy Group.  "Students Bridge Gap Between Engineering and Policy".  Article and Video Link

February 2012

Dr. Carey King wins the prestigious Rosenfeld Plaque for his work published in ERL, where he described a new method to measure energy return on energy invested (EROI). Read Announcement

 

 

Journal Articles

"Energy Return on Investment for Algal Biofuel Production Coupled with Wastewater Treatment", Beal, Colin M.; Stillwell, Ashlynn S.; King, Carey W.; Cohen, Stuart M.; Berberoglu, Halil; Bhattarai, Rajendra P.; Connelly, Rhykka L.; Webber, Michael E.; Hebner, Robert E. Water Environment Research, Volume 84, Number 9, September 2012 , pp. 692-710(19)  Read Article.

 "Comprehensive Evaluation of Algal Biofuel Production: Experimental and Target Results,"  C.M. Beal, R.E. Hebner, M.E. Webber, R.S. Ruo, F. Seibert, and C.W. King, Energies (Special Issue: Algal Fuel), 2012.   Read Article.

"Thermodynamic Analysis of Algal Biocrude Production," C.M. Beal, R.E. Hebner, M.E. Webber, Energy (Published online 8 June 2012).  Read Article.

"A unit commitment study of the application of energy storage toward the integration of renewable generation," C.B. Harris, J.P. Meyers, and M.E. Webber, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, Volume 4, Issue 1 (20pp) (2012)  Read Article.

 "An Integrated Analytical Framework for Quantifying the LCOE of Waste-to-Energy Facilities for a Range of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Policy and Technical Factors," A.K. Townsend and M.E. Webber, Waste Management (12pp) (2012). Read Article.

"Optimizing Post-combustion CO2 Capture in Response to Volatile Electricity Prices", S.M. Cohen, G.T. Rochelle, and M.E. Webber, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, 8 pp. 180 {195 (16pp) (2012).  Read Article.

"Energy Intensity Ratios as Net Energy Measures of United States Energy Production and Expenditures", Carey W King (2010) Environmental Research Letters, Read Article.


 

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