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Primary Research Goals:
Leaders: Noami Boness Mark Thurber Frank Wolak
- Gas distribution utilities
- Gas infrastructure models
- Emerging markets
- Reliability in nascent grids
Faculty & Researchers

NGI Managing Director

Associate Director for Research at PESD, Social Science Research Scholar

Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies in the Dept of Economics / Director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development - Stanford University
Students
- Trevor Davis (postdoctoral scholar at PESD): development of gas/renewables integration scenarios in PESD’s Energy Market Game.
- Ryan Triolo (Ph.D. student in Civil and Environmental Engineering): support for gas scenario development for PESD’s Energy Market Game.
Related Publications
- Tonelli, D., Rosa, L. ., Gabrielli, P., & al, et. (2024). Cost-competitive decentralized ammonia fertilizer production can increase food security. Nature Food. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-00979-y
- Cost-competitive decentralized ammonia fertilizer production can increase food security. (2024). Nature Food. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-024-00979-y
- A Methodology for Fueling Mobility Markets with Hydrogen from Natural Gas plus Carbon Capture and Sequestration. (2024). International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1750583624000380?dgcid=coauthor
- Chen, C., Oh, J., Yang, A. ., Zhou, C., Liccardo, G., Sapru, S., & Cargnello, M. (2024). Understanding the effects of manganese and zinc promoters on ferrite catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation to hydrocarbons through colloidal nanocrystals . Surface Science, 741, 122424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susc.2023.122424
- Okoroafor, E., Bracci, J., Boness, N., Saltzer, S., & al, et. (2024). A Methodology for Fueling Mobility Markets with Hydrogen from Natural Gas plus Carbon Capture and Sequestration. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 133, 104095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2024.104095
- Thurber, M. (2024). Policy Memo: Better battery strategy in emerging markets. Energy for Growth Hub. https://energyforgrowth.org/article/better-battery-strategy-in-emerging-markets-or-why-you-shouldnt-put-all-your-eggs-in-one-bess-kit/
- Zhang, Z., Cusworth, D., Ayasse, A., Sherwin, E., & Brandt, A. (2023). Measuring Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminals With Imaging Spectroscopy. Geophysical Research Letters.
- Bracci, J., Sherwin, E., Boness, N., & Brandt, A. (2023). Leveling the Playing Field: A Cost Comparison of Various Hourly- Reliable, Net-Zero Hydrogen Production Pathways. Nature Communications, 14, 7391. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2488892/v1
- Baert, K., Boness, N., & Chen, J. (2023). Future of Hydrogen Markets Workshop Report. February 20-21, 2023. Stanford Energy.
- Thurber, M. (2023). LNG exports and domestic gas use are not zero-sum. Energy for Growth Hubs. https://energyforgrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/LNG-exports-and-domestic-gas-use-are-not-zero-sum-3.pdf
- Rojas, J., Zhai, S., Sun, E., Haribal, V., Marin-Quiros, S., Sarkar, A., Gupta, R., Cargnello, M., Chueh, W., & Majumdar, A. (2023). Technoeconomics and carbon footprint of hydrogen production . International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 49(28), 10706-10723. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.12.119
- Rutherford, J., Sherwin, E., Chen, Y., Aminfard, S., & Brandt, A. (2023). Evaluating methane emission quantification performance and uncertainty of aerial technologies via high-volume single-blind controlled releases. EarthArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31223/X5KQ0X
- Sherwin, E., Rutherford, J., Chen, Y., Aminfard, S., Kort, E., Jackson, R., & Brandt, A. (2023). Single-blind validation of space-based point-source detection and quantification of onshore methane emissions. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30761-2
- Zoback, M., & Smit, D. (2023). Meeting the challenges of large-scale carbon storage and hydrogen production. PNAS, 120(11). https://doi.org/doi: 10.1073/pnas.2202397120
- Kovscek, A., Nordbotten, J., & Ferno, M. (2023). Scaling up FluidFlower results for carbon dioxide storage in geological media. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2301.09853
- AC Transit’s Zero Emission Transit Bus Technology Analysis (Volume 4). (2022). AC Transit.
- Hydrogen Derived from Natural Gas with Carbon Capture and Storage. (2022). Stanford Hydrogen Initiative.
- Kincer, J., Auth, K., & Thurber, M. (2022). Untangling ‘stranded assets’ and ‘carbon lock-in. https://energyforgrowth.org/article/untangling-stranded-assets-and-carbon-lock-in/.
- Stanford Hydrogen Launch Symposium Report. (2022). [Report]. Stanford Hydrogen Initiative.
- AC Transit’s Zero Emission Transit Bus Technology Analysis (Volume 3). (2022). AC Transit.
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Stanford Natural Gas Initiative seed funded projects require annual submissions of brief technical progress reports and interim report summaries for active projects. Closed projects require a technical report and final report summary one year after the award close date.