Smart Power Lab. He specializes in designing power systems to produce power at the lowest cost while incorporating large shares of renewable energy. Additional work focuses on technologies that could be used to shift electricity demand to times when power is more abundant (especially renewable power), and mechanisms for integrating this demand response into power system operations. Dr. Fripp is a member of U.H.'s Renewable Energy and Island Sustainability (REIS) group, the U.H. Economic Research Organization (UHERO) and the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum (HEPF). He received a Ph.D. and M.S. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford.