Academic Year 2018 - 2019 Seminars
Past Seminars
2019
May
06
The Value of Electricity Reliability in India
Date:
Monday, May 6, 2019, 12:00pm
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, 12:00pm
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, 12:00pm
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, 12:00pm
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, 12:00pm
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, 12:00pm
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, 12:00pm
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, 12:00pm
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, 12:00pm
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, 12:00pm
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 |