The power of community
The power of community
ASES Technical Divisions bring together diverse members with similar interests in order to engage, educate and grow the community through an exchange of information. Divisions conduct outreach and ensure that ASES programs and publications are technically accurate. Membership in any Division is open to ASES Business, Professional, Student, and Life members. Join the discussion on the ASES Online Community!
Divisions Chair: Nir Krakauer
Email: technicaldivisions@ases.org
Current ASES Divisions
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Chair: John Burke dadsolar@yahoo.com
Vice Chair: Rich Stromberg restromberg@alaska.edu
Includes direct energy conversion of the sun’s rays to electricity including photovoltaic (PV) energy technology, concentrating photovoltaic (CPV), and photovoltaic thermal technology (PV/T) that captures heat off the backside of PV, cooling them, thus making more electricity.
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Chair: Julian Wang jqw5965@psu.edu
Vice Chair: Debbie Rucker Coleman debbie@sunplans.com
The Solar Buildings Division encompasses a wide range of solar technologies related specifically to buildings:
Energy-efficient Building Design
Passive Solar Heating and Passive Cooling
Residential Buildings – Single and Multifamily
Commercial and Institutional Buildings
Material Research of glazing, claddings, and BIPV
Energy Analysis Design Tools
Architectural and Engineering Curriculums
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Chair: Henry Vandermark hkv@solarwave.com
Vice Chair: Bill Guiney bill@articsolar.com
Concerned with methods and processes which utilize solar flux for heat-driven applications. Includes solar ponds, desalination of water, agricultural drying, process heat for industry, photo-enhanced processes (hazardous waste treatment), high temperature solar enhanced processes (water decomposition to form hydrogen), materials processing (high tensile strength fiber production by chemical vapor deposition), solar pumped laser, district heating and cooling, and solar cookers.
Grid Modernization and Storage Division
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Chair: Summer Ferreira srferre@sandia.gov
This new ASES Technical Division focuses on municipal grids, national connections, microgrids, and storage. Grid modernization can deliver energy with more reliability and security, handling variable renewables like wind and solar power. The grid infrastructure must be updated to increase resilience and adapt to the changing sources of energy. It can spread economic opportunities in rural and urban communities through electricity and transportation infrastructure investment and upgrades. This Division encourages research and education in the field, and promotes widespread development and use of renewable energy, with an emphasis on residential-scale applications.
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Chair: Wyldon Fishman wyldon1@gmail.com
Vice Chair: Daniel Simon danielisimon@yahoo.com
Promotes renewable energy economics and choices that could affect the efficiencies of the energy markets. Of particular focus is solar, distributed generation (DG), existing energy sources, demand-side management (DSM), smart grid technologies, and intelligent software to guide the powerful new grid of the future. Reshaping our energy economy to bring free-market principles into energy markets helps to create new jobs and accelerates aggregate demand in our economy.
Chair: Paulette Middleton paulette@panoramapathways.net
Resource Applications Division
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Chair: Manajit Sengupta manajit.sengupta@nrel.gov
Solar resource applications are relevant to all phases of project site selection and design, project operation (via forecasting), and project evaluation and feedback for refinement.
