Explore Energy House
Explore Energy House is a vibrant residential community that expands energy and sustainability education through exceptional field trips, action-oriented learning, and friendships with housemates from around the world. Our home is a place for residents who are aiming to make a difference can connect and explore together from a lively basecamp.
Explore Energy House is Stanford's first STEM-based academic theme house. It is not expected that residents arrive with domain knowledge, but rather that they have a shared desire to engage each other as we explore a wide range of energy ecosystems. The challenges of our time are interdisciplinary and so are the solution landscapes we explore!
The culture of this integrated learning and living environment values intellectual curiosity, new ideas and innovation, personal and social responsibility, mutual aid among residents, and spirited participation in fun experiences.
To offer a few snapshots: returning residents include leaders of the campus DJ Club, Solar Car team, Students for Sustainable Stanford, Science Olympiad, and a member of the title-winning sailing team. Residents host Music Mondays in the lounge, form teams for TreeHacks, and organize outings to the beach and performing arts in San Francisco.
Want to hear more? House Leaders produced this 10 minute Overview of Explore Energy House to share a highlight reel with prospective residents. (Use SUNet ID to view, or enjoy the pictures and briefing deck here.)
More than 20 countries on 5 continents are represented by residents in Explore Energy House – and its multicultural community offers many perspectives on the imperatives and opportunities for clean energy transitions.
Through a weekly Explore Energy Seminar, participants have a chance to explore opportunities at Stanford and beyond through more than two dozen co-host partners as well as alumni. Sessions are facilitated by the resident House Leaders with Resident Fellow Holmes Hummel, and you can surf the syllabus to join anytime — it’s open to residents and non-residents alike!
Residents and seminar participants benefit from on-ramps to paid summer positions opportunities in technology, policy, business and more; and they also have priority access among students for field trips and invitation-only events that range from large conferences, to exclusive field trips, to small VIP dinners.
Explore Energy House, based in Sterling Quad, is a four-class house open to any undergraduate student who has an interest in actively exploring energy transitions through lenses that include (and are not limited to) technology, policy, equity, finance, international relations, and entrepreneurship.
The residence hall is located on the beautiful west side of campus, close to the Science & Engineering Quad as well as the popular Educational Farm and the Solar Car workshop. Our home is surrounded by open space, and Lake Lagunita is just across the lawn with views of the foothills and a path directly to its popular loop for a mind-clearing walk or jog.
Across the street, you'll find Arrillaga Outdoor Education and Recreation Center (AOERC) with its recreational swimming pool, climbing gym, indoor basketball courts, a weight room and fitness center, and outdoor center for gear to go camping, skiing, boating, and surfing. This place is fun!
At Explore Energy House, we value curiosity, creativity, joy, and inclusion. Our home celebrates residents who are invested in relationships and community building and creating a place of encouragement and belonging.
Explore Energy House is associated with the Explore Energy program based in the Precourt Institute for Energy, and it enables residents to draw on diverse resources as they explore a vast realm of energy topics through learning opportunities across campus — including the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.