Michaelangelo Tabone

Bio

Michaelangelo Tabone received his M.S. (‘12) and Ph.D. (’16) from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a B.S. in chemical engineering and a B.A. in political science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2010. Tabone’s research focused on leveraging rapidly evolving data collection and processing techniques to promote sustainable energy systems. In addition to his academic experience, Tabone has worked with the consulting firm Energy and Environmental Economics, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Policy Analysis, the Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Minimizing Environmental Impacts by Managing Distributed Energy Resources

A large-scale change in energy systems is underway, from fossil to renewable energy sources, and from centralized to distributed energy resources. Tabone’s research at Stanford will focus on creating data-driven tools for planning and managing these distributed energy resources (DERs). These tools offer researchers—and non-academic stakeholders—the ability to evaluate and optimize proposed public policies and business plans regarding DERs for their costs, their benefits to physical power systems, and their impact on the environment.