ASES Technical Divisions

ASES Technical  Divisions bring together members with similar interests in order to exchange information and ensure that ASES programs and publications are technically accurate. Membership in any division is open to ASES Business, Professional, Student, and Life members with similar interests to network and exchange information. Join the discussion in the ASES Online Community!

Divisions Chair: Nir Krakauer
Email: technicaldivisions@ases.org

Current ASES Divisions

Photovoltaics Division

(open to ASES Business, Professional, Student and Life members – Join ASES)

Chair: John Burke dadsolar@yahoo.com 

Vice Chair: Akinwonmi Remi aremi@ases.org

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.

Solar Buildings Division

(open to ASES Business, Professional, Student, and Life members – Join ASES)

Chair: Julian Wang jqw5965@psu.edu

Vice Chair: Debbie Rucker Coleman debbie@sunplans.com

Includes passive solar heating and cooling, daylighting, Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV), site design, building design tools and case studies.

Solar Thermal Division

(open to ASES Business, Professional, Student, and Life members – Join ASES)

Chair: Henry Vandermark hkv@solarwave.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

(open to ASES Business, Professional, Student, and Life members – Join ASES)

Chair: Nathan Edmunds nedmunds1@hotmail.com

This new ASES Technical Division focuses on the 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.

Energy Economics Division

(open to ASES Business, Professional, Student, and Life members – Join ASES)

Chair: Wyldon Fishman wyldon1@gmail.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.

Sustainability Division

Chair: Paulette Middleton paulette@panoramapathways.net 

Promotes the development, exchange, and use of information on the multiple environmental and societal benefits of renewable energy combined with energy efficiency and conservation.