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Funded by a $100,000 grant from the LSU Institute for Energy Innovation, LSU Professor Aly Mousaad Aly is researching the potential impact of extreme wind events on solar power installations, and in the process hoping to improve their design and durability.

William Spatafora is already playing a vital role in advancing energy research and community engagement initiatives as the newly designated Research Coordinator for LSU's Institute for Energy Innovation.

The potential impact of carbon sequestration on the environment has been a local hot button issue for years, fueled largely by a lack of credible data. A team of LSU researchers led by Frank Tsai, a professor in LSU's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, hopes to change all that.

Director Brad Ives was a guest at Axios’ May 13th broadcast event looking at how Louisiana is building a cleaner energy infrastructure for the future. In the interview, Brad discusses the recently awarded $160 million NSF Future Use of Energy in Louisiana (FUEL) grant and its use, LSU Institute for Energy Innovation’s overall goal of carbon reduction, carbon sequestration and specifically the institute’s role in projects like Lake Maurepas, the integrity of the institute’s and LSUs research process, and the need for more engineers.

While harnessing wind energy at sea is still in its early stages in the United States, Louisiana workers and companies are uniquely positioned to play an outsized role in this new sector, just as they have for the past century in offshore oil and gas.

LSU petroleum engineering associate professor Mehdi Zeidouni has been awarded a $252,160 grant from the LSU Institute for Energy Innovation. The grant will support his work tracking subsurface carbon dioxide flow and well-sealing capacity in geological carbon storage projects.

On Wednesday, Feb. 28, LSU welcomed Geraldine (Geri) Richmond, the Under Secretary for Science and Innovation at the Department of Energy, to campus, where she visited with President William F. Tate IV and toured LSU facilities and labs devoted to energy studies.

Though solar farming is not a novel concept in renewable energy, it is fairly new to the state of Louisiana. With the advancement of renewable resources come questions about how they will affect humans and the environment.

Highly competitive NSF Engines grant will provide up to $160 million to support Louisiana’s energy industry, create jobs and develop the energy workforce.

LSU Institute for Energy Innovation Director Brad Ives, who is featured in the latest episode of Business Report’s “Strictly Business” webcast, aims to help Louisiana chart a course toward a more sustainable future.

Realizing the potential to harness the Sun’s energy, LSU Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management Assistant Professor Arup Bhattacharya is researching solar power farming in the state thanks to a $94,000 grant from the Institute for Energy Innovation.

Thanks to a nearly $500,000 experimental grant from the LSU Institute for Energy Innovation, LSU Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering Assistant Professor Jyotsna Sharma is leading a team of researchers that includes LSU Mechanical Engineering Associate Professor Manas Gartia and collaborators at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to develop a distributed fiber-optic sensor (DFOS) to monitor CO2 leaks and structural integrity in CCS sites and CO2 pipelines.