Authors: Harold Blackman, Kevin Kostelnik

Affiliation: Center for Advanced Energy Studies

Title: The Center for Advanced Energy Studies

Abstract: The Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) is a public/private partnership comprised of the three Idaho public universities, private industry, and the Idaho National Laboratory.  CAES integrates resources, capabilities and expertise to create new research capabilities, expand researcher-to-researcher collaborations, and enhance energy-related educational opportunities.  With a broad energy perspective that includes nuclear, fossil, renewable, alternative energy, environmental stewardship, and energy policy studies, CAES delivers innovative, cost-effective, credible energy research leading to technology-based economic development.

Specifically, CAES engages in fundamental and applied research and policy analysis that contributes to the:

•  Expansion of energy production from high-capacity, reduced-carbon sources, with a focus on support for a national renaissance in commercial nuclear power;

•  Management of fossil-fuel energy systems and emitted carbon through reuse, capture and storage, while responsibly expanding the use of regionally abundant coal resources;

•  Availability of carbon-neutral energy, such as biofuels to support the expansion of renewable energy sources for transportation; and

•  Stewardship of the environment during energy production and consumption to increase understanding of key issues including water resource quality and availability, impacts on public and private land, and sustainable economic growth in the arid West).