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The ESC is very happy to welcome Prof. Gonzalo Guillén Gosálbez as its newest member. In February 2019, Prof. Guillén Gosálbez started as Associate Professor of Chemical Systems Engineering at the Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering.

Findings from the Swiss Household and Energy Demand Survey shed new light on the willingness to live in a more energy-efficient building. Most surprisingly: more than 50% of the participating tenants would accept a higher rent increase than the expected savings from their energy bills after the renovation. Read more about it in the Energy Blog @ ETH Zurich.

Thanks to unreliable electricity grids, fossil-fuel powered generators in low- and middle-income countries constitute as much generation capacity as up to 1,000 coal-fired plants, finds a new report from the IFC and the Schatz Energy Research Center. That sounds bad for the climate and public health, but generators also help people stay out of poverty. Read more about it in the Energy Blog @ ETH Zurich.