Duke Undergraduate Energy and Climate Club

As we wrap up the semester, we wanted to highlight some of our community events from the past few months. 🌱 DECC members volunteered with Keep Durham Beautiful to pick up 88 pounds of litter on the West Ellerbee Creek Trail! 🧪🥼 Through a partnership with Duke Femmes+ Connect, DECC members promoted STEM learning for elementary schoolers by constructing mini wind-powered cars! We had a blast at these events and look forward to what next semester has in store.

Our second annual Alumni Dinner at GRUB Durham was a huge success! Thank you to all of the alumni, students, and faculty who attended. We look forward to next year's event 🌎⚡️ Huge thanks to Nicholas Nease, the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, and Duke Alumni Engagement and Development for their support in putting this event together.

Join us this Thursday, March 27 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at GRUB Durham (1200 W Chapel Hill St) for our second annual Alumni Dinner! This event is a special opportunity for DECC alumni and current students to connect, share stories, and build meaningful relationships across the energy and climate space. Whether you’re local to Durham or planning to be in town, we’d be thrilled to have you join us. Happy-hour-style dinner will be provided, and we will also play the Duke game, so feel free to wear your jerseys! If you’re a Duke alum in energy/sustainability/climate and would like to attend, feel free to RSVP via emailing nicholas.nease@duke.edu. The Duke undergraduate student RSVP form can be found at https://lnkd.in/eD7R2cie, and the graduate student link is https://lnkd.in/e-gKJfch. Attendance to this event will count towards energy experience points! Students can take the C1 to the Arts Annex and walk from there to GRUB. If transportation is a barrier to you attending, please email nicholas.nease@duke.edu and we will arrange a ride. Shoutout to Nicholas Nease, the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, and Duke Alumni Engagement and Development for their support in putting this event together. Can’t wait to connect and celebrate the amazing work happening in our community!

We are proud to share that our Projects Program has partnered with five companies in the energy, climate, and sustainability fields to offer pro-bono consulting projects for students. Teams of student analysts are working with NextEra Energy, Inc., Third Derivative, Marble, REV Energy Ventures, and Lukera Energy. Kudos to our Project Program Directors, Ben Verlander and Maya Khodabakchian!

DECC’s October Recap: This month included a variety of site visits, information sessions, panels, and small dinners. We would like to highlight our first-ever energy focused career fair featuring Windlift, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), EQ Research LLC, Strata Clean Energy, 8 Rivers, and Duke Energy Corporation. Dave Mozersky from Energy Peace Partners joined us for our October General Body Meeting. DECC members had the opportunity to visit Windlift, and participate in Energy Terminal Interconnect. We are looking forward to all of our events in the coming month⚡🌎

DECC joined our friends from Epsilon Eta at UNC Chapel Hill on September 20 for a tour of Strata Clean Energy, one of the nation's leading solar developers and a Projects Program partner for the past year. Students met representatives from all parts of Strata's business for an exciting look into the solar industry-a huge thank you to Strata for the warm welcome and to Epsilon Eta for inviting us to join!

Drop/add is officially over and we have a full house for the first-ever semester of our Intro to Energy and Climate Ventures course! Our speaker team met last Monday to prepare for our weekly guest sessions and are so excited to meet everyone. Stay tuned for more exciting updates as we welcome our amazing guest speaker line-up this year! Special thanks to our course coordinators Tyler Ratcliffe, Mudit Agrawal, Abby Finkle, and Daniel Ketyer.

Applications for project analyst and project manager positions are now live! As our most diverse set of projects to date, these collaborations are a one-of-a-kind opportunity to engage with climate and energy during your semester. Thank you to Third Derivative, NC Sustainable Energy Association, Center for Progressive Reform, Strata Clean Energy, NALA Membranes, and Capwell for your partnership. More detailed descriptions of our projects are available on our website! Applications are due September 13 at 11:59, so don’t miss it! If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Project Directors, Arjun Chadha and Maya Khodabakchian 🧑💻🔌🔋