Team awarded National Science Foundation grant

Eric Hittinger, associate professor in the Department of Public Policy, and Eric Williams, professor in the Department of Sustainability, were recently awarded a $265,000 National Science Foundation grant for a research project titled “CAS-Climate: Linking Activities, Expenditures and Energy Use into an Integrated Systems Model to Understand and Predict Energy Futures.” This is part of a collaborative project with researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology that is focused on understanding the large-scale interactions between behavior and energy use across the United States, with the goal of answering questions about the energy system implications of trends like telework, online shopping, or increased urban density.