STANFORD UNIVERSITY PIE, Precourt Institute of Energy, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

GOALS OF THE
TOMKAT CENTER

The TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy works to transform the world's energy systems by:

  • Identifying key challenges and defining research agendas
  • Carrying out evaluation and analysis
  • Challenging our faculty to form interdisciplinary groups to provide new approaches to problem solving
  • Developing methods for analysis that will be adopted by other practitioners
  • Performing systems level and cross-disciplinary research
  • Facilitating translation to actual applied technology
  • Proposing innovative solutions

The TomKat Center looks at generation and conversion, transmission and distribution, storage, and land and water as they pertain to energy for electricity and transportation.

generation and conversion, transmission and distribution, storage, land and water