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Kyri Baker, an associate professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, emphasizes the need for grid upgrades to maintain reliability amidst extreme weather.

Assistant Professor Kyri Baker received the Provost Faculty Achievement Award. This university-wide award recognizes the work and promise of pre-tenured faculty.

"We have areas that are producing too much solar or too much wind at certain points, and we just don’t have not enough load or demand to use it," said Assistant Professor Kyri Baker. "So if we install more lines to pipe that power where it needs to go, the the grid’s just going to become more efficient."

Assistant Professor Kyri Baker is a member of ‘Decarb Bros,’ a loose affiliation of mostly young researchers, climate tech workers and policymakers who believe the best way to combat climate change is to ditch the gloom of earlier environmentalism and focus on what new technology can do.