UCLA MAE Professor Rajit Gadh was quoted recently regarding a power plant proposal energy debate.

The alternative energy industry is innovating at a phenomenal rate, said Rajit Gadh, founder and director of UCLA’s Smart Grid Energy Research Center.

But he urged patience: “I would love to see higher and higher renewables, but I think we have to take the correct steps to get there. And as an engineer, I would like to make sure we do the data measurements and we do the right things so that utilities and everybody else are satisfied that this can be done.”

The article, by Joshua Emerson Smith, is available in full at the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Union-Tribune.