Paul Komor聽is the founder of the RASEI聽Education programs聽at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) and a lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program at the 乐播传媒 Boulder.
As RASEI鈥檚 first Education Director, Paul worked聽to establish CU-Boulder as a leader in energy education. Paul also has an active research program in renewable electricity policy, and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in energy technology and policy.
Prior to joining the 乐播传媒 faculty, Paul was a Project Director at the U.S. Congress鈥櫬犅�(OTA), where he worked with both House and Senate Congressional Committees in preparing and evaluating energy legislation. His 1992 report, "", played a major role in the debates that culminated in the Energy Policy Act of 1992.
Prior to joining OTA, he taught at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has published numerous refereed articles, reports, and other papers; and in 2004 published a book,聽, that compares U.S. and EU experiences with renewable energy policies. That book is required or recommended reading for courses at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), University of Denver (DU), University of Utah, Robert Gordon University (UK), and elsewhere.
In 2001, Paul was awarded the Diebold Foundation Fellowship for European policy studies and spent 2001 as a Visiting Academic in the聽聽at Imperial College, London. In 2005, Paul was selected as the聽聽by Stanford University, where he spent six months at Stanford researching and teaching on renewable energy policy and technology.
In 2007, Paul shared in the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 鈥渇or their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change". The IPCC consists of a large number of scientists and researchers 鈥� including Paul, who co- authored a chapter on 鈥淢itigation Options for Human Settlements鈥� in the IPCC鈥檚 Second Assessment Report. For his work with the IPCC, Paul was named a contributor to the Nobel Peace Prize.
Courses taught:
ENST 5000 Energy Science and Technology (Spring Semester)
Recent publications:
D. Hyde and P. Komor, 鈥淒istributed PV and Securitization: Made for Each Other?,鈥� The Electricity Journal, Volume 27, Issue 5, June 2014.
Komor, P., A. Hoke, and R. Kempener, "Seven Steps to a Smarter Grid," The Electricity Journal, Volume 27, Number 2, March 2014.
R. Kempener, P. Komor, and A. Hoke, Smart Grids and Renewables: A Guide for Effective Deployment, published by the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA), November 2013 ()
J. Glassmire, P. Komor, and P. Lilienthal, Electricity demand savings from distributed solar photovoltaics, Energy Policy, Volume 51, 2012
P. Komor and J. Glassmire, Electricity Storage and Renewables for Island Power,聽published by the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA), May 2012, ()
A. Hoke and P. Komor, "Maximizing the Benefits of Distributed Photovoltaics,"聽The Electricity Journal, Volume 25, Issue 3, April 2012.
G. Stockmayer, V. Finch, R. Mignogna, and P. Komor, "Limiting the costs of renewable聽portfolio standards: A review of current methods," Energy Policy,聽 Volume 42, March 2012.
M. Bazilian, P. Komor, et al., "Considering the energy, water and food nexus: 聽Towards an integrated modeling approach," Energy Policy, Volume 39, December 2011.
S. Kaufman, P. Komor, B. Langdon, and P. Vallett, "Electricity Storage in Regulated Markets: 聽Getting the Rules Right," The Electricity Journal, Volume 24, Issue 6, July 2011.
Popular Writing, Public Talks,聽 etc.:
- 聽for plenary talk on Sustainable Futures at ESTCON 2014, Kuala Lumpur, June 2014.聽
- , World Future Energy Summit, Abu Dhabi, January 2014.聽
- Top Ten Energy Myths,聽
- , Tokyo, May 2013.
- 聽at 'Advancing Renewables in the Midwest' conference, Columbia MO, April 2013.