GOALS OF THE
TOMKAT CENTER
The TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy works to transform the world's energy systems by:
- Identifying key challenges and defining research agendas
- Carrying out evaluation and analysis
- Challenging our faculty to form interdisciplinary groups to provide new approaches to problem solving
- Developing methods for analysis that will be adopted by other practitioners
- Performing systems level and cross-disciplinary research
- Facilitating translation to actual applied technology
- Proposing innovative solutions
The TomKat Center was created in 2009 with a gift made by Stanford alumni and husband-and-wife team Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor.
