ABOUT CERC
The University of South Florida's Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) explores and develops environmentally clean energy systems.
Key research projects include solar thermal power, photovoltaics, concentrating solar power, energy storage (phase change materials, thermal storage, batteries, and supercapacitors), photocatalytic detoxification/disinfection technologies, new efficient thermodynamic cycles; solar energy conversion and biomass conversion/biofuels
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UPDATES
- Tampa Electric announces $5-million gift to create an endowed fund to support CERC. The goal is to explore, research and develop emerging energy technologies that reduce carbon. It is the largest single outright gift to the USF College of Engineering.
- Yogi Goswami, CERC Director and editor-in-chief of new International Solar Alliance journal Solar Compass, explains journal's vision.
- CERC SPOTLIGHT: Postdoctoral scholar Krishnendu Maity, above, is focusing on carbon capture and radiative cooling.
- Visiting research scholar Dr. Daniel Garrain of Spain is researching sustainability and the circular economy applied to energy technologies.
- ISES and ASHRAE help with Florida Solar Congress: Photos
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CERC FACES AND PLACES
- THANK YOU, DR. STEFANAKOS: Founding CERC Director Dr. Lee Stefanakos, above and below with student researcher Sushant Nagare, retires: A Photo Gallery
- "Without Lee we would not have CERC": Read a profile of founding CERC director Lee Stefanakos to learn about his life, his 38-year teaching and research career at USF, and his thoughts on the future of clean energy.
- CERC SPOTLIGHT: Doctoral researcher Rajat Mittal, below on a trip to New York, is studying thermal energy storage and consciousness.