photo of home with rooftop solar panels
Among the ideas this year in the Saint-Gobain Design Competition is an ultra-capacitor battery system designed to make renewable energy accessible 24/7 and consumer-friendly by extending battery life.

Engineering’s Grant Goodrich talks about the Decarbonization Summit and carbon neutrality

Cleveland Decarbonization Summit’s goal: net-zero carbon emissions by 2050
Crain’s Cleveland Business (subscription required): Grant Goodrich, executive director of CWRU’s Great Lakes Energy Institute, weighed in on a story about the Decarbonization Summit involving leaders—including Goodrich in sustainability—about achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. “We have existing sustainability plans, but this is more of a pathway where we … analyze what choices we have to make today to get to a net-zero future for our city,” Goodrich said.