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    Precourt  Institute  Energy  Advisory  Council    

November 4, 2013 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Lou Henry Hoover Building Stanford University

ATTENDEES Advisory Council: George Shultz (Chair), Dan Arvizu, T.J. Glauthier, Pete Higgins, Douglas Kimmelman, Stephen Pacala, William Perry, Jay Precourt, Burton Richter, Thomas Stephenson, Erik Straser, Ward Woods, Jane Woodward Precourt Fellows: Lynn Orr (Director, Precourt Institute), Sally Benson, Stacey Bent, Thomas Devereaux, Martin Fischer, Fritz Prinz, James Sweeney Other Stanford Attendees: Ann Arvin, Dean of Research Jeffrey Ball, Fellow, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance Charlie Barnhart, Postdoctoral Scholar, Global Climate and Energy Project Jeremy Carl, E-IPER Graduate Student, Hoover Institution Yi Cui, Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and of Photon Science/SLAC Shanhui Fan, Professor of Electrical Engineering Richard Sassoon, Managing Director, Global Climate and Energy Project Clare Wildenborg, Associate Director, Environment & Energy Programs, Office of Development Precourt Staff: Steve Eglash, Executive Director, Energy & Environment Affiliates Program Mark Golden, Communications Leigh Johnson, Program & Outreach Manager Nancy Sandoval, Executive Assistant Mark Shwartz, Communications Sunny Wang, Program Associate Miki Yu, Event & Outreach Program Planner

These minutes summarize the discussions that took place during the meeting, as well as important comments and suggestions made by members of the Advisory Council and other attendees. The minutes are organized according to the approved agenda, which is included at the end. Presentation materials and documents distributed prior to and during the meeting are available from the Precourt Institute. Overview of activities Lynn Orr discussed spending for major energy-research programs on campus. Direct annual spending now totals $67M, including government grants, private gifts and industry support, with additional funds (perhaps $35M) from academic departments and other sources. This large financial commitment helped create today’s robust, campus-wide conversation on energy. Inquiries were made about the percentage of federal support, and how energy-research funding at Stanford compares to other institutions.

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A question was raised about how the Institute looks at areas like transportation. The Institute supports the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS), whose director receives 20 percent of his salary from the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC). Several Council members emphasized the importance of supporting research to create better batteries for electric vehicles and to enhance security of the electrical grid. George Shultz urged continued government support for R&D, which he defined as getting a technology to the point where it’s operational and scalable, and then letting the market do the work. In May he delivered that message to House Speaker John Boehner and others during the Game Changers Workshop in Washington, DC. In October, Shultz and Sen. Jeff Bingaman of the Steyer-Taylor Center convened a roundtable on energy policies at the state level. Participants included state utility regulators, power suppliers and experts from academia, NGOs and the private sector. The results of the meeting will be published to improve awareness about states with successful clean-energy policies. Seed funding Since 2010, the Precourt Institute, the TomKat Center and PEEC have awarded proof-of-concept seed grants to 57 Stanford and SLAC faculty in 21 departments and 10 independent institutes and labs. Stacey Bent discussed the TomKat Center’s new program to support the transfer of innovative energy technologies from the lab to the marketplace. TomKat received 13 applications for the first round in 2013 and awarded $100,000-$150,000 to three promising startups: NGEN (extraction of nitrogen waste for biofuel combustion), Aurora (reduction of solar installation “soft costs”) and Dragonfly (correcting electrical mismatches between installed PV panels). TomKat is working closely with Stanford’s Office of Technology Licensing on this effort. Metrics The Council was asked for advice on developing high-level metrics to assess the impact of energy research at Stanford. Among the suggestions: (1) emphasize the importance of something significant coming out of the work; (2) monitor and evaluate the ability of the PIs to attract follow-on research and commercial investment; (3) focus on documenting the number of academic citations; and (4) review the criteria for metrics used by other institutions. Research updates Global Climate and Energy Project GCEP Director Sally Benson said that the financial commitment made by the project sponsors ends in about two years, and that GCEP will continue for at least three years beyond that as GCEP research projects come to an end. ExxonMobil, DuPont and Schlumberger are likely to renew, although it’s unlikely that ExxonMobil will continue underwriting half of the project. GCEP hopes to increase the number of sponsors and is in intense discussions about the next phase, GCEP 2.0. Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium BAPVC Co-Director Yi Cui described efforts by consortium researchers to find technologies that will lower the installed cost of a commercial PV module to 50¢ in 10 years. DOE has invested $25M in BAPVC over five years. SLAC Tom Devereaux discussed research at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) and the SUNCAT Center for Interface Science and Catalysis, as well as plans for phase

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two of SLAC’s high-powered Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). A proposal has been submitted to DOE for a new Theoretical Institute of Photon Science that would provide theory to guide experiments in photon sciences. In FY 14, SLAC’s Lab Directed Research Development Funds (LDRD) will provide $1.6M for fundamental research. The LDRD program is similar in scale to the Precourt Institute/TomKat/PEEC seed grant effort. Electromagnetic radiation Shanhui Fan described three ongoing research efforts focused on controlling electromagnetic fields for energy applications: (1) thermophotovoltaics – enhancing PV efficiency by converting solar heat into usable wavelengths of light; (2) wireless charging – using magnetic resonance coupling to wirelessly charge electric vehicles driving down the highway; and (3) cold space – cooling buildings during daytime by transferring heat into the chilly vacuum of outer space. Burton Richter described the cold space concept as “the most innovative work I’ve heard in years. It’s not just improving something, it’s a totally new direction of research.” Energy storage Fritz Prinz discussed work at the Center on Nanostructuring for Efficient Energy Conversion on key technologies: splitting water to produce hydrogen; Jens Norskov’s search for oxygen-reducing photocatalysts made with perskovites; and progress on solid oxide fuel cells. He noted that the high cost of producing hydrogen limits is current use. Charlie Barnhart presented the results of his study on the material and energy limits to electrical energy storage, which found that significant improvement in battery cycle life is essential if grid-scale batteries are to compete with pumped hydro and other geological storage technologies. A suggestion was made to include thermal storage in future analyses. People Arum Majumdar, former director of ARPA-E, will hold the first Jay Precourt Chair in energy science. Clare Wildenborg is the new associate director for environment and energy Stanford’s Office of Development. The meeting adjourned at 4:00 p.m. after an hour-long closed session of the Advisory Council.  The  next  Advisory  Council  meeting  is  scheduled  for  Monday,  May  19,  2014.    

                               

   

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 Agenda    

Precourt  Institute  for  Energy    Advisory  Council  Meeting    

November  4,  2014    8:30     Continental  Breakfast    Welcome  and  Overview    9:00     Welcome  and  Game  Changers  Update  

The  Honorable  Secretary  George  Shultz,  Chair,  Precourt  Institute  Energy  Advisory  Council;  Thomas  W.  and  Susan  B.  Ford  Distinguished  Fellow  at  the  Hoover  Institution;  Chair,  Shultz-­‐Stephenson  Task  Force  on  Energy  Policy    

 9:20     Update  on  the  Precourt  Institute  for  Energy  Activities  

Lynn  Orr,  Keleen  and  Carlton  Beal  Professor  in  Petroleum  Engineering;  Director,  Precourt  Institute  for  Energy  

 9:50     Seed  Grants:  Engagement,  Innovation  and  Impact          

Lynn  Orr,  Keleen  and  Carlton  Beal  Professor  in  Petroleum  Engineering;  Director,  Precourt  Institute  for  Energy  

  Stacey  Bent,  Jagdeep  &  Roshni  Singh  Professor  in  Stanford  School  of  Engineering;  Director,  TomKat  Center  for  Sustainable  Energy;  Co-­‐Director,  Center  on  Nanostructuring  for  Efficient  Energy  Conversion  (CNEEC)  

 Jim  Sweeney,  Professor  of  Management  Science  &  Engineering;  Director,  Precourt  Energy  Efficiency  Center  

 10:35     Break    Energy  for  All    10:50     Research  Talk    

Rising  Power:  How  China  is  Shaping  the  Global  Race  for  Cleaner  Energy  Jeffrey  Ball,  Scholar-­‐in-­‐Residence,  Steyer-­‐Taylor  Center  for  Energy  Policy  and  Finance    

11:20     Strategy  &  Management  Workshop  in  India  on  Energy  Technologies  for  the  Developing  World  and  GCEP  Looking  Ahead      Sally  Benson,  Professor  of  Energy  Resources;  Director,  Global  Climate  and  Energy  Project  (GCEP)    

 12:00       Lunch     Stanford  Solar  Decathlon  and  Stanford  Solar  Car  Project    Solar  Energy      12:45     Strategy  &  Management  

Solar  Energy:  Bay  Area  Photovoltaic  Consortium  (BAPVC)  and  Solar  Energy  Research  at  Stanford    Yi  Cui,  Associate  Professor  of  Materials  Science  and  Engineering  of  Photon  Science;    Co-­‐Director,  Bay  Area  Photvoltaic  Consortium      

1:15     Research  Talk  Control  of  Electromagnetic  Radiation  for  Energy  Applications  Shanhui  Fan,  Professor  of  Electrical  Engineering  

 Energy  at  Stanford  &  SLAC    1:45     Strategy  &  Management  

Energy  Research  at  Stanford  &  SLAC:  Looking  Ahead    Tom  Devereaux,  Professor  of  Photon  Science;  Director,  Stanford  Institute  for  Materials  &  Energy  

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Sciences  (SIMES)    2:15     Break    Energy  Efficiency      2:30     Research  Talk    

Energy  Efficient  Buildings  Martin  Fischer,  Professor  of  Civil  and  Environmental  Engineering;  Director,  Center  for  Integrated  Facility  Engineering  

 Energy  Storage      3:00     Research  Talk  

Energy  Storage  Research  at  Stanford  Fritz  Prinz,  Finmeccanica  Professor  of  Engineering  and  former  Chair  of  Mechanical  Engineering;  Director  of  the  Nanoscale  Prototyping  Laboratory;  and  Co-­‐Director  Center  on  Nanostructuring  for  Efficient  Energy  Conversion  (CNEEC)        Analysis  Material  and  Energy  Limits  to  Electrical  Energy  Storage  Charlie  Barnhart,  Postdoctoral  Fellow,  Global  Climate  Energy  Project  (GCEP)  

 4:00     Closed  Advisory  Council  Session  with  Ann  Arvin,  Vice  Provost  and  Dean  of  Research,  Lucile  Salter  

Packard  Professor  of  Pediatrics  and  Professor  of  Microbiology  and  Immunology    5:00     Close  of  meeting    5:30     Reception  and  dinner  at  the  home  of  Lynn  and  Susan  Orr