The Iden Charles Champion Award in Commerce & Industry

Established in 1921 by Iden Charles Champion (Class of 1919) to support higher education, The Iden Charles Champion Award in Commerce & Industry is presented annually to a student in the Department of Economics. Irene Yank (Franklin, Wisconsin) has been reliably excellent through her Lawence years, and her paper Powering Up a Greener Grid: The Impacts of Renewables on Electricity Grid Reliability, is no exception. She gathered and wrangled state-level US data to assess whether states sacrificed energy reliability when they added greener but more intermittent sources. To the contrary, she finds that states with a more diverse electricity portfolios have more stable and reliable power systems.

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