Technological Change and Energy Transition

Microgrid governance, Green Data Centers, Technology & Policy

Larkin, Patricia, Monica Gattinger, and Stephen Bird. 2022. “Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage: Public Confidence in Risk Decision- Making.” In Democratizing Risk Governance: Bridging Science, Expertise, Deliberation and Public Values, edited by Monica Gattinger. Toronto: Palgrave MacMillan.


Larkin, Patricia, Stephen Bird, and Monica Gattinger. 2021. “Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage: Polarization, Public Confidence and Decision-Making.” Ottawa Canada: University of Ottawa, Positive Energy. Paper here


Hotaling, Chelsea, Stephen Bird, and Martin D. Heintzelman. 2021. “Willingness to Pay for Microgrids to Enhance Community Resilience.” Energy Policy 154 (July): 112248. 


S. Bird, A. Enayati, C. Hotaling, T. Ortmeyer, Resilient Community Microgrids: Governance and Operational Challenges, in: A. Q. Huang, W. Su (Eds.), Energy Internet: An Open Energy Platform to Transform Legacy Power Systems into Open Innovation and Global Economic Engine, Elsevier, 2018. 


S. Bird, C. Hotaling, Multi-stakeholder microgrids for resilience and sustainability, Environmental Hazards. 16 (2017) 116–132. doi:10.1080/17477891.2016.1263181. Special issue on Sustainability and Environmental Hazards, Peter Walker, Guest Editor. 


New York Department of Public Service / National Grid / New York State Energy Research Development Agency (NYSERDA). ​​ Design of a Resilient Underground Microgrid in Potsdam, NY.  2016-2017. New York Prize (Microgrid) Stage 2 and NY REV (Renewing the Energy Vision) Project 41309. Co- PI, (lead: Tom Ortmeyer) with GE Energy Consulting.  


National Science Foundation (NSF). Developing Advanced Resilient Microgrid Technology to Improve Disaster Response Capability. 2015-2018. Co- PI, (lead: Tom Ortmeyer).  Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) award 1534035.


S. Bird, A. Achuthan, O. Ait Maatallah, W. Hu, K. Janoyan, A. Kwasinski, J. Matthews, D. Mayhew, J. Owen, P. Marzocca, Distributed (green) data centers: A new concept for energy, computing, and telecommunications, Energy for Sustainable Development. 19 (2014) 83–91.


New York State Energy Research Development Agency (NYSERDA). Green Data Center Computing: A Demonstration Project. $350,000. Co-PI and PI. 2013: Policy, Economic, and Market Analysis.