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Daniel M. Kammen is the Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in the Energy and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the department of Nuclear Engineering. Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) and the co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of the Environment. In April 2010 Kammen was named by Secretary of State Hilary R. Clinton to be the first Clean Energy Envoy to the Americas. As of October, 2010 Kammen will serve as the Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency at the World Bank. In this role, he will chair and coordinate many of the World Bank Group’s activities in this area, the fastest growing sector of lending and projects.
Kammen is the Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center. Kammen received his undergraduate (Cornell A., B. ’84) and graduate (Harvard M. A. ’86, Ph.D. ’88) training is in physics After postdoctoral work at Caltech and Harvard, Kammen was professor and Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 1993 – 1998. He then moved to the University of California, Berkeley. Kammen directs research programs on energy supply, transmission, the smart grid and low-carbon energy systems, on the life-cycle impacts of transportation options including electrified vehicles and land-use planning, and on energy for community development in Africa, Asia, and in Latin America. Daniel Kammen is a coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Kammen is the co-developer of the Property Assessed Clean Energy [PACE] Financing Model: energy efficiency and solar energy financing plan that permit installation of clean energy systems on residences with no up-front costs. PACE was named by Scientific American as the #1 World Changing Idea of 2009. (co developer with Cisco DeVries). Kammen serves on the National Technical Advisory Board of the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. He hosted the Discovery Channel series ‘Ecopolis, and had appeared on Frontline, NOVA, and twice on ’60 Minutes’. Kammen is the author of over 220 journal publications, 4 books, 30 technical reports, and has testified in front of state and the US House and Senate over 30 times. |
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Selected Journal Publications
Kammen is the author of over 220 papers and reports, most of which are available online at: http://rael.berkeley.edu). A selection of relevant papers includes:
Kammen, D. M. (2010) “2020 Visions: Energy,” Nature, 463 (7), 27.
Wei, M., Patadia, S. and Kammen, D. M. (2010) "Putting renewables and energy efficiency to work: How many jobs can the clean energy industry generate in the U. S.?" Energy Policy, 38, 919 - 931.
Kammen, D. M. (2009) Testimony “Clean energy options for Native American Tribes”, U. S. Senate Committee. Field hearing (Denver, CO): Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), September 14, 2009.
Kammen, D. M. (2006) “The Rise of Renewable Energy”, Scientific American, September. 82 - 91.
Farrell A. E., Plevin, R. J. Turner, B. T., Jones, A. D. O’Hare, M. and Kammen, D. M. (2006) “Ethanol can contribute to energy and environmental goals”, Science, 311, 506 – 508.
Kammen, D. M. and Nemet, G. (2005) “Reversing the incredible shrinking energy R&D budget,” Issues in Science & Technology, Fall, 84 – 88.
Jacobson, A. and Kammen, D. M. (2005) “ Science and engineering research that values the planet”, The Bridge: Journal of the National Academy of Engineering, Winter, 11 – 17.
Bailis, R., Ezzati, M. and Kammen, D. M. (2005) “Mortality and greenhouse gas impacts of biomass and petroleum energy futures in Africa”, 308, Science, 98 – 103.
Ezzati, M. and Kammen, D. (2001) “Indoor air pollution from biomass combustion and acute respiratory infections in Kenya: An Exposure-response study”, The Lancet, 358, 619 – 624.
Margolis, R. and Kammen, D. M. (1999) “Underinvestment: The energy technology and R&D policy challenge”, Science, 285, 690 – 692.
Baer, P., Harte, J., Herzog, A., Holdren, J., Hultman, N., Kammen, D. M., Haya, B., Norgaard, R., and Raymond, L. (2000) “Equity and greenhouse gas responsibility”, Science 289, 2287.
Selected Books
2011 Grubler, et al. (2011) Global Energy Assessment (Knowledge Module 24: The Energy Technology Innovation System (ETIS)).
2010 Cruetzig, F. S. and Kammen, D. M. (2010) “Getting the carbon out of transportation fuels”, in Global Sustainability: A Nobel Cause, Schellenhuber, H.-J., Molina, M., Stern, N., Huber, V., and Kadner, S. (eds). (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK), 307 – 318.
2003 Kammen, D. M., Bailis, R. and Herzog, A. V. (2003) Clean Energy for Development and Economic Growth: Biomass and Other Renewable Energy Options to Meet Energy and Development Needs in Poor Nations (UNDP: New York).
2003 Fayemi, A. and Kammen, D. M. (2003) African Women: A Photo Essay of the Lifeblood of a Continent (Ebenezer press: White Plains, NY).
2002 Climate Technology Initiative, Contributing Author (2002) Technology Without Borders: Case Studies of Successful Technology Transfer (International Energy Agency: Paris, France). URL: http://www.iea.org/public/studies/cti.htm
2000 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Groups II and III (2000) Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer (Cambridge University Press: New York, Cambridge UK and New York, NY). Coordinating Lead Author. ISBN 0-521-80494-9.
1999 Kammen, D. M. and Hassenzahl, D. M. Should We Risk It? Exploring Environmental, Health and Technological Problem Solving, in press, Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-169-00426-9, 406 pages, 77 tables, 82 illustrations. |
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