Richard Strömberg (he/him/his)

Affiliate Researcher

UAF Alaska Center for Energy and Power

Email: restromberg@alaska.edu

Expertise

• Climate and Environment
• Energy Efficiency
• Energy Equity and Justice
• Microgrids
• Solar
• Wind
• Photovoltaics Reuse and Circular Economy
• Waste to Energy

BIO

Rich Strömberg has decades of experience in high-volume semiconductor manufacturing at Intel and Texas Instruments and solar and wind energy program management for the state of Alaska.

He holds a B.S. in math and computer science, a B.A. in journalism and a master’s degree in environmental management from Western Colorado University. As a Ph.D. student at UAF, he is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary degree in reuse of solar photovoltaic systems for social and ecological benefit.

As a key researcher on both technical and social factors related to reusing solar equipment, Strömberg is a member of IEC Task 82 on PV reuse best practices and a co-author of the forthcoming TR 63525 on PV circularity. He collaborates with Battelle Memorial Institute and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on the NSF-sponsored Securing critical material supply chains by enabling phOtovoltaic circuLARity (SOLAR) and is the vice chair of the Photovoltaic Technical Division at the American Solar Energy Society.

Strömberg lives off-grid in a passive solar and passively cooled house that he designed and built. He has solar PV modules, a small wind turbine and test arrays to study the long-term effects of PV module defect modes. He recently completed building the Solar Reuse Test Lab in southern Colorado.