Prescriptive Climate and
Energy Solutions
We build place-based, equitable, and affordable strategies for decarbonizing our energy system. Designed for today's constraints, our research shapes long-term transitions.
Energy Technologies
Assessing climate and air quality impacts of emerging energy technologies.
Retiring Fossil Infrastructure
Transitioning electricity grids and transportation fleets away from fossil fuels.
Clean Energy Economics
Economics of clean energy solutions, from utility rate design to household affordability.
News
We are recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026! If you are interested in decarbonizing energy systems, integrating hyperscale demand in electricity grids, and advancing sustainable mobility, consider applying to RIT's Sustainability PhD program (Deadline: Jan 15, 2026). Feel free to reach out via email with your CV.
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2026
Madalsa presents the lab's work on California's electricity rates at an invited National Academies of Engineering and Science workshop on electricity affordability.
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2025
Research on electricity pricing featured in The New York Times: "Why the Price of Electricity Is Spiking Around the Country."
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2025
Quoted in Heatmap News on why electricity has gotten so expensive.
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2025
Quoted in The Verge on AI energy demand and climate implications.
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2025
New paper in Progress in Energy: Retail rate design for decarbonized and resilient electricity systems.
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2025
New paper in The Electricity Journal: Wires and fire: Wildfire investment and network cost differences across California's power providers.
Recent Publications
Selected recent work from the lab
Wires and fire: Wildfire investment and network cost differences across California's power providers
The Electricity Journal
Distributional impacts of fleet-wide change in light duty transportation
Environmental Research Letters