Master's Project (MP) topics come from a variety of sources—including faculty: client partners (private-sector corporations, government agencies, or non-profit organizations); and students themselves. Some projects involve scientific research, while others may involve formation of management plans, educational curricula, policy analyses, business plans, or similar deliverables.
The Energy Initiative has combed through this year's full schedule to create a list of projects that bring energy into focus—please come learn about what students have accomplished this year. Topics are sorted into different Zoom rooms. To view a presentation, click the room link at the associated time. View the abstracts for all projects.
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The Future of Big Oil in the Hydrogen Economy
Panayiotis Koutsogeorgas, MEM/MBA and Zoe Ripecky, MEM/MBA
The Future of Heating: Evaluating Options for Aquidneck Island, Rhode Island
Christopher Lazinski, MEM/MBA Cheryl Lee, MEM/MBA
Assessing Transmission Bottlenecks for Renewable Energy in North Carolina
Rajat Pungaliya, Yutong Xue, and Yiwen Wang
Understanding State-Level Regulatory Considerations for Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment in South Carolina
Emma Frantz, MEM/MPP
Project Resiliency - Overcoming Barriers for Repeatable Microgrids in the US
Zukhruf Amjad, Reed Leon-Hinton, and Hassan Nadeem
Reforming Solar Net Energy Metering
Franco Ghadiri, Akshay Krishnan, and Ruoshui Li
A Geospatial Approach to Siting Wind Right in the Southeast
Xueying Feng and Shawn Li
Estimating the Benefits of Energy Efficiency Standards in the U.S.: The Case of Residential Refrigerators
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Corporate-wide Sustainability Goals for Wolfspeed
Muhammad Abdullah, Garrett Blake, Zhenchen Li, and Ayse Trail
Duke University's Alternative Transportation Future
Hardy Almes and Jimmy Gilman
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Innovation in the Blue Economy: Opportunities in Shipping, Aquaculture, and Offshore Wind for Climate Change Mitigation
Sage Riddick,
Lisa Snodgrass, and
Megan Swanson
What's Mined Is Yours: Identifying Future Demand for Seabed Minerals
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An assessment of climate transition risks and opportunities for Indonesia’s Largest Electricity Company
Deploying renewable energy infrastructure at former oil and gas extraction sites: potential and sustainability implications
Oilfield Waste: An Overlooked Commodity
Assessing the Implications of PJM Interconnection Capacity Market Reforms on State Energy Resource Transitions
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European Market Entry for Long-Duration Energy Storage
Kathryn Davis (MEM/MBA) and Davis Guebert (MEM/MBA)
Environmental Justice Considerations for the Implementation of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in North Carolina
Mike Campton, Grace Chan, Karen Glibert, Conor Mulderrig, and Audrey Wilkes
Renewable Natural Gas Investing Opportunities
Dang Ding, Sam Pollan (MEM/MBA), and Zoe Yang
Analysis of the Microgrid Market for Small and Medium-Sized Municipalities and Electric Cooperatives
Thomas Hancock, Yuxin Hu, and Yueyi Yang
Utilities 2.0: Analyzing Customer Lifetime Value and Customer Transfer for a Novel Electrification Partnership
Ian Reichardt and Isaac Rosenthal
Assessing Time-Variant Tariff Deployment for Mini-Grids in Sierra Leone
A Model-Based Policy Analysis: The Inter-play Between TCI and RGGI
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Time to Shine? Evaluating the Economic Feasibility of Energy Storage Retrofits
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Ocean Justice: Strategies for an equitable implementation of North Carolina’s offshore wind industry
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VC Co Impact Measurement Strategy