Academic Year 2018 - 2019 Seminars
Past Seminars
2019
May
06
The Value of Electricity Reliability in India
Date:
Monday, May 6, 2019 (All day)
Energy Policy Seminar
Speakers: Shefali Khanna, PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School, and Kevin Rowe, PhD candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
 | Summary | 90 KB |
2019
Apr
29
Towards Energy Storage for Profitable Renewable Integration: What's Needed and When
Date:
Monday, April 29, 2019 (All day)
Energy Policy Seminar
Speaker: Jay Whitacre, Trustee Professor in Energy, Department of Engineering and Public Policy and Director, Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, Carnegie Mellon University
| Slides | 2.3 MB |
2019
Apr
22
2019
Apr
15
Energy and the Maritime Environment
Date:
Monday, April 15, 2019 (All day)
Energy Policy Seminar
Speaker: Jesse Ausubel, Senior Research Associate and Director, Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University
| Summary | 237 KB |
2019
Apr
08
The Rapid Transformation of New England's Power System and Implications for Wholesale Electricity Markets
Date:
Monday, April 8, 2019 (All day)
Energy Policy Seminar.
Speaker: Gordon van Welie, President and Chief Executive Officer, ISO New England
| harvard_kennedy_school_van_welie_presentation_april_8_2019_final.pdf | 1.84 MB |
2019
Apr
01
Life Cycle Assessment for Policy: Opportunities and Challenges
Date:
Monday, April 1, 2019 (All day)
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
Speaker: Joule Bergerson, Associate Professor in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering and Canada Research Chair in Energy Technology Assessment
| bergerson_hks_seminar_april_1_2019_to_post.pdf | 2.05 MB |
2019
Mar
11
Legal Controversies about State Clean Energy Policies in Courts and at FERC
Date:
Monday, March 11, 2019 (All day)
Energy Policy Seminar
Speaker: Ari Peskoe, Director of the Electricity Law Initiative, Harvard Law School
| peskoe_-_hks_-_mar_11_slides.pdf | 2.85 MB |
| peskoe_summary_final.pdf | 232 KB |
2019
Mar
04
Smoke and Mirrors: Did China's Environmental Crackdowns Lead to Persistent Changes in Polluting Firm Behavior?
Date:
Monday, March 4, 2019 (All day)
Energy Policy Seminar
Speaker: Valerie Karplus, Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
| karplus-summary-3-22-2019_final.pdf | 238 KB |
2019
Feb
25
The Cost of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Date:
Monday, February 25, 2019 (All day)
Location:
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS
Energy Policy Seminar
Speaker: Jim Stock, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University
| stock_presentation_slides_cost_of_climate_mitgation_v1.pdf | 2.35 MB |
| stock_summary | 109 KB |
2019
Feb
11
Surprising Insights from Electricity Customer Micro Data
Date:
Monday, February 11, 2019 (All day)
Location:
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS
Energy Policy Seminar
Speaker: Pasi Miettinen, President and CEO, Sagewell
| miettinen_seminar_summary | 283 KB |
| pasi_miettinen_slides_at_harvard_kennedy_school_2-11-19 | 2.38 MB |
2018
Dec
03
The Oil Climate Index: Analyzing the Heterogeneous Lifecycle Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Global Oils
Date:
Monday, December 3, 2018, 12:00pm
Deborah Gordon, Director, Energy and Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
| gordon_harvard_ppt_final_01.pdf | 2.87 MB |
| gordon_seminar_summary.pdf | 92 KB |
2018
Nov
26
The Value of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage
Date:
Monday, November 26, 2018, 12:00pm
Cuicui Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
| cuicui_ccs_talk.pdf | 2.58 MB |
| chen_summary_final.pdf | 91 KB |
2018
Nov
19
Competitive Electricity Markets: Ontario’s Journey to LMP
Date:
Monday, November 19, 2018, 12:00pm
Susan Pope, Managing Director, FTI Consulting
| pope_summary_final.pdf | 107 KB |
2018
Nov
05
California's Cap-and-trade Program and Emission Leakage: An Empirical Analysis
Date:
Monday, November 5, 2018 (All day)
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
Chiara Lo Prete, Assistant Professor of Energy Economics, John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
| lo_prete_tyagi_hohl_presentation_nov_2018.pdf | 806 KB |
| lo_prete_summary_final.pdf | 111 KB |
2018
Oct
29
The Political Economy of Pricing Carbon in a 2°C World
Date:
Monday, October 29, 2018, 12:00pm
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
Speaker: Joe Aldy, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
| aldy_summary_final_oct_29_2018.pdf | 87 KB |