Ines Azevedo
Stanford University
Seminar Information
Engineering Building Unit 2 (EBU2)
Room 479
*Please Note that all the Spring'26 Energy Seminars will be at 1-2pm*
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The United States faces the need to build generation, storage, and transmission infrastructure while meeting a growing electricity demand. I will present results from several ongoing analyses that quantify the costs, benefits, and technology investments needed across the country for a variety of policy and technology scenarios. We use a new modeling tool, PyPSA-USA, that includes characteristics of generators, transmission, candidate new generation and transmission technologies, a representation of renewable generation potential, and state- and federal-level policies and incentives.
Inês M.L. Azevedo is Professor in the Department of Energy Science & Engineering at Stanford University, and she serves as Senior Fellow for both the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy. She also holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, all at Stanford University. She is also an Invited Professor with the Nova Business School (Portugal). Prof. Azevedo’s research interests focus on sustainable energy using a systems approach that combines engineering and technology analysis with economic and decision science. She has published 130+ peer-reviewed journal articles and has served as an author on several reports of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. She was one of the Lead Authors for the IPCC AR6 report on Climate Mitigation, as well as Lead Author for the 2024 U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA). Prof. Azevedo has received the World Economic Forum’s “Young Scientists under 40” award in 2014, and the C3E Women in Clean Energy Research Award in 2017.