The following statement of purpose is written by an applicant who was accepted to top graduate energy and environment management programs. Variations of this personal statement got accepted at Georgia Tech and Boston University. Read this statement of purpose to get inspiration and understand what a top essay should look like.

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Sample Statement of Purpose Energy and Environment Management

My focus encompasses Energy and environmental management. Towards future study and research, I would like to empower and build myself on two main components: formulating a way our industries can lessen dependence on the Grid and making a standardized sustainable and energy-independent domestic system based on renewables.

I would like to build upon my final year project on Salinity Gradient Solar Pond (SGSP) for the practicum industrial research. This is a one of its kind and the first pilot-scale Solar Pond that has been installed at Tulane University. Proudly I have been the pioneer of this research delivery. SGSP can enable the energy-starved industries to utilize the waste brine, a common byproduct of numerous chemical processes, by storing solar Energy and producing electricity. This snugly synchronizes with the university’s objective of meeting the energy crises and typically would involve cross-cultural interaction as the world’s largest solar pond is constructed at El Paso by the University of Texas.

The project inspires me for numerous reasons: it focuses on a sustainable, zero waste recycling system that would help the industries producing excessive brine with disposal issues and thus causing harm to the environment; SGSP can not only utilize this brine but also store solar Energy in the pond that can be extracted from heat exchangers. El- Paso Solar Pond has been operational since 1986, providing 70 kW of electricity to the Bruce Foods Corporation, enabling the industry to reduce the load on the Grid. Thus, in our industries, where they primarily depend on diesel, which costs up to about 27 cents/ kWh, this would be a cheaper solution that would eventually protect the environment.

Dr John Walton, Professor of SGSP at the University of Texas at El Paso, retired in Spring 2015. However, Dr Huanmin Lu has been publishing his articles internationally, accompanied by Dr John Walton, since 2011, and I would like to seek their work to gain valuable insights. Throughout my stay at Yale, I would like to work in an existing solar pond where the literature review will be conducted for the first two months. Upon completing this, I would like to understand how industries cannot just manage brine but also produce electricity from it. This is very important for me to grasp since only El Paso Solar Pond has been able to produce electricity and power. Such implementations can be easily proposed in our industries since most are in a far fledge area with large acres of land.

For domestic scale energy systems, I advocate two options: energy conservation and energy independence. While energy conservation can be easily acquired by replacing energy-efficient lights or inverter ACs, energy independence would require costly large-scale installations. So, I would like to propose an efficient model that can minimize the load by 70%. Furthermore, given that the net metering concept has been recently introduced, I would like to understand a feasible model that caters for all of these factors with the energy source primarily renewable, mainly like solar, micro hydel scale plants and Hydel. While advancements are made, there is no proper model upon which a middle-class person can adopt energy conservation and independence simultaneously, that too through Renewables.

During my encounter with Energy Policy Specialist Nameerah Hameed at the Annual Energy Conference by Vestas, I found out that Energy Department is working on making an Energy Resource Center as an example with the help of Carpus + Partner & Giz; I still think that such a centre would not cater for demands of the majority of the urban population. We need to design a cost-effective yet energy-efficient and energy-independent household so that the load on our Grid can be reduced while simultaneously relying on a sustainable model. Hence, I believe our government should have a valuable human resource in our hometown so that people like me can contribute and help them achieve their goals.

Primarily, my interest in Energy developed by comparing my courses in air, water and noise pollution with the existing crises. Although environmental threats are immense throughout the world, US’s major problem does not lie around its Air Quality Index reaching a dangerous level like China. Still, it is facing an inevitable plethora of crises in terms of Energy! Therefore, as an environmentalist, I would like to amalgamate the subjects like Energy Resources and Management and Cleaner Production Techniques to apply my technical skills to advanced renewable energy systems and their management so that we quantify how renewables can enable environmental protection and provide energy security.”