Won Young Park
Won Young Park is a Policy Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, leading research on energy efficiency and emerging technologies in appliances, equipment, transportation, and industry. He has provided extensive national and regional market, technology, and policy analyses for several countries, including Brazil, China, Indonesia, Rwanda, and various others in Southeast Asia and Africa. His research interests also include alternative maritime technologies and data center energy use.
Prior to joining LBNL, he worked at Samsung SDI in South Korea, where he specialized in digital display technology. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Yonsei University, Korea, and a Master of Public Policy degree from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Awards
K-CEP Progress on Cooling Policy Award: Nihar Shah, Won Young Park - February 6th 2020
In 2020, the Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP) awarded the LBNL team of Won Young Park and Nihar Shah the "Progress on Cooling Policy" award along with the UN Environment (UNEP) United for Efficiency (U4E) Initiative and the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) in recognition of their work on the U4E "Model Regulation Guidelines" for energy-efficient and climate-friendly air-conditioners. The potential worldwide energy and environmental benefits by 2040 that are possible with a market transition, supported by policy improvements aligned with the model regulation guidelines, to energy-efficient room air-conditioners are estimated to be about 558 terawatt-hours, equivalent to electricity generation from 255 500-megawatt-capacity power plants and 516 million tons of CO2 emissions.