A team of researchers led by Laura Bruckman, research assistant professor in the CWRU Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Abdulkerim Gok, a research associate at Gebze Technical University in Turkey (formerly at Case Western Reserve), used data science to better predict how weather and other conditions affect solar panels. Collaborators in the study include the SDLE Research Centre at CWRU for weather testing and CWRU Professor Jiayang Sun, of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, for modeling. This work could help in solving new ways of extending solar panel lifetimes according to the researchers. "This makes the cost of solar energy -- in this case -- better and easier to understand," said Professor Bruckman.

Susan Helper, the Frank Tracy Carlton Professor of Economics at Case Western Reserve University, discussed with Energywire the reasoning behind President Trump's decision to pull out of the 2015 Paris Accord. While the president cites limits on carbon dioxide emissions as placing US cities at an economic disadvantage, evidence from Ohio tells a different story.

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