Integrated Infrastructure Planning and Demand Management of Low-carbon Technologies Towards Sustainable and Resilient Transportation and Energy Systems
Supporting the below United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:支持以下聯合國可持續發展目標：支持以下联合国可持续发展目标：
Widespread adoption of low-carbon technologies such as electric vehicles, renewables, and heat pumps requires urgent adaptations of existing transportation and energy infrastructures. However, questions remain on the effectiveness and robustness of various strategies for infrastructure expansion and demand management to decarbonize while incurring minimum disruptions to human activities. Addressing these questions can be challenging because it requires a spatially and temporally explicit modeling of the variations and uncertainties in human travel and energy-consuming behaviors, technology performance, and resource availability. This talk will discuss some of my recent work on tackling this challenge around 1) planning of charging stations and power grid for personal electric vehicles, 2) demand management of electric vehicle charging, 3) power grid impact of the coordinated adoption of electric vehicles, heat pumps, and solar photovoltaics.
Wei Wei is a postdoctoral associate at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She received her Ph.D. from the interdepartmental transportation program from MIT in 2022, her M.S. in the same field from MIT in 2017, and her B.Eng. in Engineering Systems and Design with a focus on Economics and Operations Research from Singapore University of Technology and Design in 2015. In between her studies, she worked on microgrid optimization with renewable integration at ENGIE in France. Her primary research interest is in building data-informed models to examine technology innovations and infrastructure planning that enable intelligent, sustainable, and resilient transportation and energy systems. Her doctoral research focuses on modeling travel behavior and technology performance to inform charging infrastructure expansion and power grid upgrades for enabling personal vehicle electrification. Her postdoctoral research has been focusing on characterizing and forecasting electricity demand extremes from decarbonization. She has worked on projects related to vehicle electrification and renewable integration in the US, Japan, Indonesia, Portugal, Denmark, and France. She is a recipient of the Lee Schipper Memorial Scholarship for Sustainable Transport and Energy Efficiency from the World Resources Institute.