Academic Year 2018 - 2019 Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
Past Seminars
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 |
2019
Mar
04
Smoke and Mirrors: Did China's Environmental Crackdowns Lead to Persistent Changes in Polluting Firm Behavior?
Date:
Monday, March 4, 2019, 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS
Energy Policy Seminar
Speaker: Valerie Karplus, Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Lunch will be served.
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 |
2018
Oct
22
The Case for a Slow and Steady "Tortoise" Approach for US Nuclear Research and Development
Date:
Monday, October 22, 2018, 12:00pm
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
Michael J. Ford, Ph.D., French Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
| ford_summary_final.pdf | 92 KB |
2018
Oct
01
Using Big Data to Quantify the Economic Impacts of Climate Change
Date:
Monday, October 1, 2018, 12:00pm
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
Trevor Houser, Partner, Rhodium Group, and Co-Director, Climate Impact Lab
| houser_summary_final.pdf | 97 KB |
2018
Sep
24
State Policies and Wholesale Electricity Markets
Date:
Monday, September 24, 2018, 12:00pm
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
Travis Fisher, Adviser to the Chief of Staff, FERC
| fisher_summary_final.pdf | 90 KB |
2018
Sep
17
Why Distributed? How to Think about the Value and Cost of Distributed Energy Resources
Date:
Monday, September 17, 2018, 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS
HKS Energy Policy Seminar
Jesse Jenkins, Environmental Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
| jenkins_summary_final.pdf | 282 KB |
2018
Sep
10
The energy-efficiency gap, bounded rationality and the role of energy-related financial literacy
Date:
Monday, September 10, 2018, 12:00pm
Massimo Filippini, Professor of energy and public economics, ETH Zurich and Università della Svizzera Italiana
| filippini_slides_2018.pdf | 2.28 MB |
| filippini_summary_final.pdf | 95 KB |