Projects
Five ways I’ve tested the energy transition.
All five are Cornell projects. Every page runs in the same order: the problem, what we built, what we found, and where the answer stops working.
- CEE 4880 capstone
NYISO capacity expansion under a carbon tax
What I found
A $55 per ton carbon price reaches 70% renewables in an average year. Guaranteeing 70% in a poor resource year takes $120.
What carbon price gets New York to 70% renewables, and what it takes to hold that in a bad weather year.
- CEE 5200
Utility-scale battery economics at DeCordova
What I found
A levelized cost of storage of $166.79 per MWh, traced to non-modular design rather than to regulation.
Why one Texas battery plant costs what it does, and how much of that is the market rules.
- CEE 4800
Pumped storage against wind intermittency in Chicago
What I found
Sized and dispatched pumped storage that cuts unmet demand by up to 51% against wind alone.
Forecast the wind, size the storage, then run it. Three methods stacked into one system.
- BEE 3299
Gas against solar plus battery, across three pillars
What I found
Nothing wins everywhere. Lithium mining is the biggest emissions hotspot on one side, burning gas on the other.
A Texas gas plant against solar plus battery, scored on environment, cost, and people.
- CEE 4210
Solar-driven vertical farming in Manila
What I found
A 28-page feasibility study with an economic model, built around an agrivoltaic LCOE of $0.0528 per kWh.
Can solar power a vertical farm in Manila at a price that works?
Civil foundations
Where I started: geotechnical.
Earlier civil coursework. Just the PDFs, no write-ups.
CEE 3410
Albany Street Bridge geotechnical report
Geotechnical findings for the Albany Street Bridge, summarized for a city council audience.
Individual case study.
Class assignment written in the role of a licensed PE, as required by the course. I hold the FE, not the PE.
CEE 3410
Rammed earth column soil specification
Soil specification for rammed earth columns at Hollister Hall.
Individual case study.
Cornell Geotechnical Seminar
Freeze-thaw effects on Alaska's Dalton Highway
Team presentation on freeze-thaw damage along the Dalton Highway.
Project lead on a five-person team. I presented it.