Environment and Energy Policy and Management

Addressing Politics, Economics, Engineering and Policy Issues to Find National and Global Solutions

Glenn College faculty generate rigorous research to understand how energy and environmental systems and policy interact, how energy markets and regulatory environment affects technology adoption, and how state and local politics shape policy innovation and implementation.

Battelle Center Tackles Challenges at Intersection of Technology, Public Policy

Guided by a mission to innovate in the public interest, the center creates actionable intelligence for decisionmakers to address “wicked” national challenges, develops analytical tools to understand future threats, and generates path-breaking technological solutions for science, engineering and technology in areas including sustainable energy, air and space, pandemic preparedness and monitoring and mitigating online misinformation.

Battelle Center for Science, Engineering and Public Policy

Recent Environment and Energy Policy Research

All Research
Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of CO2-Enabled Sedimentary Basin Geothermal
Environmental Science & Technology
2024
Jeff Bielicki's 50th peer-reviewed publication of his career, he was a part of an investigation into the net effects on CO2 emissions of using CO2 from various sources (e.g., natural gas power plants) to produce geothermal heat while isolating that CO2 from the atmosphere.
Analytical solutions to evaluate the geothermal energy generation potential from sedimentary-basin reservoirs
Geothermics
2023
In this study, Jeff Bielicki and colleagues develop and implement analytical solutions for calculating reservoir impedance, reservoir heat depletion, and wellbore heat loss in sedimentary reservoirs that are laterally extensive, homogeneous, horizontally isotropic and have uniform thickness.
Consumer Price Effects of Deregulated Electric Generation Markets: The Case of Ohio and the Midwestern United States
Utilities Policy
2023
This study from Ned Hill and colleagues investigates the effects of electric utility restructuring on the cost of generated electricity, increases in the regulated portions of customers’ bills, and changes in customers’ average total electricity price in restructured states relative to similar states that remained regulated.
Integrated Power Sector Planning Needed Under Water-Carbon Dual Challenges
Nature Water
2023
Jeff Bielicki investigates tradeoffs in water consumption and availability with carbon dioxide emissions for power plants worldwide.
Polluting under the Radar: Emissions, Inequality, and Concrete Batch Plants in Houston
Environmental Science & Technology
2023
Alex Hollingsworth and colleagues show that concrete batch plants in Houston, TX are collectively a large source of pollution, emitting between 38 and 111 tons of primary PM2.5 emissions annually and being disproportionately located in census tracts with more low-income, Hispanic, and Black populations.
The Promise of Coupling Geologic CO2 Storage with Sedimentary Basin Geothermal Power Generation
iScience
2023
This study examines the potential of utilizing geologic carbon dioxide (CO2) storage and CO2 as a working fluid for geothermal energy production to achieve ambitious greenhouse gas mitigation targets and provide load following flexibility for integrating variable renewable energy sources.