Publications:

Scientific American Article - "Solar Grand Plan":

Zweibel, Ken, James E. Mason, and Vasilis Fthenakis.  2008.   A solar grand plan.    Scientific American 298(1):64-73.

Zweibel, Ken, James Mason, and Vasilis Fthenakis.  2008.   Here comes the sun.    EnergyBiz Magazine, March/April 2008 Edition.

Fthenakis, Vasilis, James Mason, and Ken Zweibel.  2009.   The technical, geographical, and economic feasibility for solar energy to supply the energy needs of the US.    Energy Policy 37(2):387-399.

 

Solving Solar and Wind Intermittency with PV-CAES and Wind-CAES Power Plants:

Mason, James, Vasilis Fthenakis, Ken Zweibel, Tom Hansen, Thomas Nikolakakis.  2008.   Coupling pv and case power plants to transform intermittent pv electricity into a dispatchable electricity source.    Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 16(8):649-668.

Mason, James E. and Cristina L. Archer.  2011.   Analysis of wind base load electricity generation in the U.S.    Manuscript published by the journal Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Feb 2012.

 

Conference Presentations:

Mason, James E.  2009.   Solar grand plan revisited: the role of energy storage.    Presentation at the ISA Expo 2009, 6 October 2009, Houston, TX.

Mason, James E.  2009.   Transform pv to load capacity status by coupling pv plants to caes plants.    Presentation at the ASES Forum on Solar and the Grid, 13 May 2009, Buffalo, NY.

Zweibel, Ken.  2008.   An Immediate, Off-the-Shelf Solution to Energy and Climate.    Presentation at the American Solar Energy Society conference, 8 March 2008.

Mason, James, G. William Bailey, and Cristina Archer.  2010.   Firming and Shaping Wind Power: Comparison of CAES and Conventional Natural Gas Power Plants within the National Energy Independence Plan.    Paper presented at the 2nd CAES Conference and Workshop sponsored by New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA) and organized by the Center for Life Cycle Analysis, Columbia University Columbia University, New York, New York, 20-21 October 2010.

 

Other Research:

Mason, J.E. and K. Zweibel.  2008.   Hydrogen Production by Electrolysis of Water Using PV Electricity.    Centralized production of hydrogen using a coupled water electrolyzer-solar photovoltaic system. In Solar Hydrogen Generation: Toward a Renewable Energy Future, eds. Rajeshwar K, McConnell R, and Licht S. New York: Kluwer Academic.

Mason, J.E. and Zweibel K.  2007.   Baseline model of a centralized PV electrolytic hydrogen system.    International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 32(2007):2743-2763

Mason, J. E., V. M. Fthenakis, T. Hansen, and H. C. Kim.  2006.   PV Life Cycle Analysis.    Energy payback and life-cycle CO₂ emissions of the BOS in an optimized 3.5-MW PV installation. Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications 14(2):179-190.

 

Research Projects:

New York State Electric & Gas - Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage Project

 

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