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  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Michael E. Webber is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of engineering, with 49 publications, and includes significant work in several subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, Building and Construction, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their main research topics include Integrated Energy Systems Optimization, Smart Grid Energy Management, Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Global Energy and Sustainability Research, and Energy and Environment Impacts.

Michael E. Webber has coauthored extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Joshua D. Rhodes
  • Yael R. Glazer
  • Jan Mertens
  • Ronnie Belmans
  • Emily Beagle

They have contributed to numerous publication venues, with the most frequent outlets being:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Applied Energy
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Progress in Energy
  • The Electricity Journal

Their recent papers include:

  • "Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas", 2021, Energy Research & Social Science
  • "Understanding the impact of non-synchronous wind and solar generation on grid stability and identifying mitigation pathways", 2020, Applied Energy
  • "Carbon capture and utilization: More than hiding CO2 for some time", 2023, Joule
  • "Quantifying the impact of residential space heating electrification on the Texas electric grid", 2021, Applied Energy
  • "The economic and reliability impacts of grid-scale storage in a high penetration renewable energy system", 2021, Advances in Applied Energy

In addition to journal publications, Michael E. Webber has authored books published by Yale University Press and Fordham University Press eBooks, including "Thirst for Power" (2020) and "New Deal Fat Cats" (2020).

Michael E. Webber was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2014.

Best Publications

  • On-Line Building Energy Optimization Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Elena Mocanu;Decebal Constantin Mocanu;Phuong H. Nguyen;Antonio Liotta

  • Cascading risks: Understanding the 2021 winter blackout in Texas

    Joshua W. Busby;Kyri Baker;Morgan D. Bazilian;Alex Q. Gilbert

  • Wasted food, wasted energy: the embedded energy in food waste in the United States.

    Amanda D. Cuéllar;Michael E. Webber

  • The energy-water nexus in Texas

    Ashlynn S. Stillwell;Carey W. King;Michael E. Webber;Ian J. Duncan

  • Water intensity of transportation.

    Carey W. King;Michael E. Webber

  • Clustering analysis of residential electricity demand profiles

    Joshua D. Rhodes;Wesley J. Cole;Charles R. Upshaw;Thomas F. Edgar

  • The impacts of storing solar energy in the home to reduce reliance on the utility

    Robert L. Fares;Michael E. Webber

  • Cow power: the energy and emissions benefits of converting manure to biogas

    Amanda D Cuéllar;Michael E Webber

  • A review of four case studies assessing the potential for hydrogen penetration of the future energy system

    Andrew Chapman;Kenshi Itaoka;Katsuhiko Hirose;F. Todd Davidson

  • Evaluating the energy consumed for water use in the United States

    Kelly T Sanders;Michael E Webber

  • Energy recovery from wastewater treatment plants in the United States: A case study of the energy-water nexus

    Ashlynn S. Stillwell;David C. Hoppock;Michael E. Webber

  • Ammonia Monitoring Near 1.5 mum with Diode-Laser Absorption Sensors.

    Michael E. Webber;Douglas S. Baer;Ronald K. Hanson

  • In situ combustion measurements of CO, CO2, H2O and temperature using diode laser absorption sensors

    Michael E. Webber;Jian Wang;Scott T. Sanders;Douglas S. Baer

  • Fiber-amplifier-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy with near-infrared tunable diode lasers

    Michael E. Webber;Michael Pushkarsky;C. Kumar N. Patel

  • Thirst for energy

    Carey W. King;Ashlynn S. Holman;Michael E. Webber

  • Evaluating rotational inertia as a component of grid reliability with high penetrations of variable renewable energy

    Samuel C. Johnson;Dimitri J. Papageorgiou;Dharik S. Mallapragada;Thomas A. Deetjen

  • In situ combustion measurements of CO2 by use of a distributed-feedback diode-laser sensor near 2.0-μm

    Michael E. Webber;Suhong Kim;Scott T. Sanders;Douglas S. Baer

  • A Compilation of Design for Environment Principles and Guidelines

    Cassandra Telenko;Carolyn C. Seepersad;Michael E. Webber

  • Diode-laser absorption measurements of CO2, H2O, N2O, and NH3 near 2.0 μm

    R. M. Mihalcea;Michael Webber;D. S. Baer;R. K. Hanson

  • Understanding the impact of non-synchronous wind and solar generation on grid stability and identifying mitigation pathways

    Samuel C. Johnson;Joshua D. Rhodes;Michael E. Webber

  • Can switching fuels save water? A life cycle quantification of freshwater consumption for Texas coal-and natural gas-fired electricity

    Emily A Grubert;Fred C Beach;Michael E Webber

Frequent Co-Authors

Ronald K. Hanson
Ronald K. Hanson Stanford University
Gary T. Rochelle
Gary T. Rochelle The University of Texas at Austin
Carolyn Conner Seepersad
Carolyn Conner Seepersad The University of Texas at Austin
Thomas F. Edgar
Thomas F. Edgar The University of Texas at Austin
Rodney S. Ruoff
Rodney S. Ruoff Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
David T. Allen
David T. Allen The University of Texas at Austin
Wesley J. Cole
Wesley J. Cole National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Frank K. Tittel
Frank K. Tittel Rice University
Phuong H. Nguyen
Phuong H. Nguyen Eindhoven University of Technology
Christopher J. Ellison
Christopher J. Ellison University of Minnesota

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