CEES Highlighted in Hispanic Outlook Magazine
The Center for Energy & Environmental Security (CEES) and one of their research assistants Katherine Peters were the focus of a December 3rd Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education magazine article, “Energy & Environmental Security: CU’s Possible Dream.”
CEES responds to the global energy crisis and to guide the international community towards a future based in sustainable energy and development. Katherine Peters defined sustainable energy by explaining “by shifting away from carbon-based energy sources and by increasing energy efficiency, we can continue to use enough energy to sustain our society without the disastrous effects of our current energy usage.”
The idea for the center was started by faculty members Dr. Lakshman Guruswamy and Kevin Doran in 2004, and now the center has more than a dozen grants, 15 ongoing projects, and 30 interns and 3 staff who devote more than 400 hours a week toward center projects. Their research ranges from researching treaties to finding statutes that affect Colorado’s energy usage to analyzing executive orders and Supreme Court cases. A few projects are the Colorado Energy Profile, International Sustainable Energy Assessment (ISEA), Presidential Climate Action Plan, Colorado Hydro-Energy Storage Project, and International Project for Energy Commitments and Compliance (IPECC).
Peters says, “We are a politically neutral organization. Politically neutral does not mean that we stay away from politics.”