Duncan Callaway
Duncan Callaway is a Research Investigator in Natural Resources and Environment and Mechanical Engineering.
His research focuses on energy systems at the interface between energy technology and renewable resource availability.He uses mathematical models to better understand the technical challenges to large-scale deployment of intermittent renewable electricity technologies like photovoltaics and wind turbines. For example, Callaway and collaborators are integrating stochastic models of spatial and temporal resource availability into an optimization framework to determine how best to site renewable electricity generators and minimize the need for dispatchable generation. This work will eventually be extended to understand how to manage electricity loads for the same purpose.
In other work, they are studying wind turbine generator machinery to develop reduced-form models that can be employed across a range of applications, from power system analyses to individual turbine control.
To learn about Duncan Callaway's research on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles visit here.
Callaway is a MMPEI Faculty Fellow.