California Institute for Energy and Environment

CIEE is a dedicated group of experts who define, conduct, and manage public-interest energy research. Based in the University of California, at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, CIEE puts its experts and other leading researchers from universities, government, industry, and nonprofits, to work on energy challenges, yielding new ideas and technologies to meet California’s pace-setting energy goals. We partner with the California Energy Commission, the California Public Utilities Commission, the U.S. Department of Energy, utilities, and other research sponsors to help form the agenda for research in energy science, technology, and policy — identifying the most critical avenues on the complex route to California’s energy goals. CIEE then brings to bear the expertise of its world-class researchers, and those from UC and around the country, to do the innovative work needed to move steadily toward meeting California’s energy goals. Since July 1, 2018, CIEE has been operating under the CITRIS umbrella at UC Berkeley, leveraging the resources and synergies within the CITRIS ecosystem, and especially within the CITRIS Climate initiative.