Media Engagement

RASEI Fellow Kyri Baker co-authored an article in The Conversation exploring how supply-chain delays and rising costs are impacting the United States Electricity Grid

There are many factors that are causing price increases and delays in supply-chains, that are impacting industries across the nation. As the largest ‘machine’ ever built, the United States power grid is particularly sensitive to this. RASEI Fellow Kyri Baker teamed up with Morgan Bazilian from the School of Economics and Business and the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines to take a deeper dive into this topics, provide insights into the factors contributing to this, and better understand the impacts for customers.

This article has been broadly picked up by a wide range of news outlets. Use the links to the right to check out the article and some of the different news outlets that have joined this discussion.

November 2025

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RASEI Fellow Joe Berry featured in BBC article on Perovskites

Daniel Morton — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:33:36 +0000

RASEI Fellow Joe Berry featured in BBC article on Perovskites Daniel Morton Thu, 10/16/2025 - 09:33

October 2025

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RASEI Fellow Gregor Henze featured in CBS News Article on Energy Efficient AC use

Daniel Morton — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:35:56 +0000

RASEI Fellow Gregor Henze featured in CBS News Article on Energy Efficient AC use Daniel Morton Tue, 08/26/2025 - 11:35

August 2025

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Light-powered reactions could make the chemical manufacturing industry more energy-efficient

Daniel Morton — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 22:25:34 +0000

Light-powered reactions could make the chemical manufacturing industry more energy-efficient Daniel Morton Thu, 06/26/2025 - 16:25

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A recent collaborative report, published in Science, including RASEI Fellow Niels Damrauer, addresses a key issue for light-driven chemistry, potentially opening up possibilities for future energy-efficient chemical manufacturing.

Chemical reactions typically require an input of energy to proceed, this can be through heating, or introduction of chemical energy in the form of reactive chemicals. Recently, light-driven chemistry has emerged as a more energy efficient alternative. The principle is to use energy from light, which is absorbed by a catalyst. Excited by the light energy the catalyst can then donate an electron to the chemicals undergoing the desired chemical transformation.

This sounds great – light-driven reactions? One of the key issues in this class of chemistry is back transfer of the electron. This means that after the catalyst donates the electron to the reagents, instead of doing the desired reaction, the reagent gives the electron back to the catalyst. This can significantly slow down the desired reaction, even sometimes shutting it down.

This report details a new type of catalyst that can overcome this back transfer of electrons. Through rationale design of the catalyst the new system uses a chemical reaction as a catch, preventing the back transfer from the reagent and strongly favoring the desired reaction.

To highlight the impact of this work, which was completed as part of the NSF Center for Chemical Innovation Center for Sustainable Photoredox Catalysis (SuPRCat), CU Boulder student Arindam Sau, a member of the Damrauer group, teamed up with a graduate student and postdoc from Colorado State �Թ�� to put together a review and summary of this work that was recently published in The Conversation. Check out the highlight to get a full picture of the impact of this work.

June 2025

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Science Friday: The Promise Of Perovskite Solar Panels

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Science Friday: The Promise Of Perovskite Solar Panels Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 08/09/2024 - 00:00

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Science Friday is a weekly radio show that covers the latest in science and technology, hosted by Ira Flatow. Broadcast on NPR on over 470 public radio stations nationwide, the show features guest experts who discuss science and answer questions from the listeners.

RASEI Fellows Joe Berry and Laura Schelhas were guests on a live episode, held in Boulder, this August. The title of the episode was "The Promise of Perovskite Solar Panels", and the discussion revolved around how perovskite materials could advance and change the future of this clean energy technology.

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RASEI Fellow Kat Knauer Featured in The Washington Post Article Exploring Compostable Plastics

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Colorado is latest state to try turning off the electrical grid to prevent wildfires

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Colorado is latest state to try turning off the electrical grid to prevent wildfires Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 04/12/2024 - 00:00

Kyri Baker discusses the benefits and challenges of this strategy.

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RASEI Fellow Kyri Baker featured on podcast "With Great Power"

Daniel Morton — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:40:25 +0000

RASEI Fellow Kyri Baker featured on podcast "With Great Power" Daniel Morton Tue, 04/02/2024 - 09:40

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Episode Featuring Kyri Baker

With Great Power Podcast

RASEI Fellow Kyri Baker featured in energy podcast discussing the urgent need to more automation and energy management in grid systems.

“With Great Power” is a bi-weekly podcast from Latitude Media that connects with the people building the future grid. Episodes explore stories about the technology, climate, security and economic shifts that are reshaping utilities and the electricity system.

In April of 2024 RASEI Fellow Kyri Baker was interviewed by the With Great Power team. Kyri discussed her continuing research to use machine learning and advanced computational simulations for applications for the power grid, in everything from home energy management to the transmission and distribution grids, and pioneering work on new techniques for power flow optimization. The discussion explores how neural networks can be used to reduce outage times with data they already have available, and how machine learning algorithms can already make power flow predictions more accurate.

Check out the engaging and entertaining discussion here.

April 2024

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Clean Technica Tandem Solar Cell Highlight

Daniel Morton — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:13:01 +0000

Clean Technica Tandem Solar Cell Highlight Daniel Morton Sat, 03/23/2024 - 11:13

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