The Yale Undergraduate Energy Club offers students interested in energy the
opportunity to learn more. Through our weekly meetings, travel opportunities,
speaker events, and special classes, we help students from diverse academic
backgrounds gain a multidisciplinary understanding of different energy issues.
2010-2011 Accomplishments
Campus-Wide Events:
• Energy Policy Reform – speech by Dan Esty, Commissioner of the Department of
Environmental Protection and former Yale Law Professor
• Energy in the Developing World – speech by Yale Professor Alessandro Gomez
• Climate Engineering – speech by Yale Professor Trude Storelvmo
• Revenge of the Electric Car – preview screening of the film, followed by a Q&A
with the award-winning director Chris Paine
Private Meetings:
• T. Boone Pickens – Chairman, BP Capital Management
• Rajendra Pachauri – Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Gary Brudvig – Chairman, Yale Climate and Energy Institute
• Marcelo Furtado – Director, Greenpeace Brazil
• Mark Brownstein – Director, Environmental Defense Fund Energy Program
• Doug Rachlin – Director, Neuberger Berman
• Yale Professors – including Matthew Kotchen, Arthur Campbell, Jay Ague, and
Robert Mendelsohn
• Government Agencies –Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Environmental
Protection Agency, New York State Research and Development Agency
• Companies – JP Morgan, Lux Research, Bright Power, ArcLight Capital, United
Illuminating
• Other Groups – American Wind Energy Association, National Resources Defense
Council, Senator Bingaman's Office, Julie Zimmerman Lab researchers
Tours: Millstone Nuclear Power Plant, Yale Power Plant, Kroon Hall, Empire State
Building central steam system and efficiency retrofits.
Project Bright: Offer a weekly class to certify undergraduates in solar PV installations.
Teaching Energy Classes: Club members teach an energy curriculum at Common
Grounds, a New Haven high school.
Conferences Attended: COP16, MIT Energy, Yale Climate & Energy Institute, Yale
Alumni in Energy, PowerShift.
Social Events: Mixers with the Yale Student Environmental Coalition, the Yale School of
Forestry Energy Club, and the Yale Entrepreneurial Society.
Contact:
President – Anna Litman
214-533-9309
anna.litman@yale.edu