Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
Past seminars
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
Lunch will be served.
 | 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 |
2018
Apr
23
Air Quality and Health Implications of Energy Strategies
Date:
Monday, April 23, 2018, 12:00pm
Denise Mauzerall, Professor of Environmental Engineering and International Affairs, Princeton University
| Mauzerall talk summary | 97 KB |
2018
Apr
16
Energy policy in India: A research agenda
Date:
Monday, April 16, 2018, 12:00pm
Kaveri Iychettira, Fellow, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
| Iychettiri talk summary | 945 KB |
2018
Apr
09
Air Quality and Water Implications of Power Sector Decarbonization in China: Effects of Strengthening Environmental Policies
Date:
Monday, April 9, 2018, 12:00pm
Wei Peng, Environment and Natural Resources Program Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
| Wei Peng talk summary | 4.67 MB |
2018
Apr
02
Nuclear Energy in Decarbonizing China's Energy System: Loosening Constraints, Mitigating Risks
Date:
Monday, April 2, 2018, 12:00pm
Matthew Bunn, Professor Practice, HKS, and Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
| bunn_summary_final.pdf | 100 KB |
2018
Mar
29
The Geopolitics of Energy
Date:
Thursday, March 29, 2018, 12:00pm
Jason Bordoff, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs and Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
2018
Mar
26
Challenges for getting the prices right in PJM's wholesale electricity markets
Date:
Monday, March 26, 2018, 12:00pm
Hung-Po Chao, Senior Director & Chief Economist, PJM Interconnection
| Chao talk summary | 96 KB |
| Chao slides | 1.94 MB |
2018
Mar
19
Methane: A Uniquely Difficult Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Problem
Date:
Monday, March 19, 2018, 12:00pm
Robert Kleinberg, Schlumberger
| Kleinberg talk summary | 0 bytes |
| Kleinberg slides | 3 MB |
2018
Mar
05
Taming the sun: Innovations to harness solar energy and power the planet
Date:
Monday, March 5, 2018, 12:00pm
Varun Sivaram, Philip D. Reed Fellow for Science and Technology, Council on Foreign Relations
2018
Feb
26
Creating Markets for Wind Electricity in China: An Analysis of Grid and Institutional Causes of Curtailment
Date:
Monday, February 26, 2018, 12:00pm
Michael Davidson, Environment and Natural Resources Program Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
| Summary of talk | 95 KB |
2018
Feb
12
Imperfect markets versus imperfect regulation in US electricity generation
Date:
Monday, February 12, 2018, 12:00pm
Steve Cicala, Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
| cicala_summary_spring_2018_final.pdf | 155 KB |
2017
Dec
04
Mitigation Versus Solar Geoengineering: Role of Risk Aversion and Time Preference
Date:
Monday, December 4, 2017, 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location:
Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS
Speaker Mariia Belaia, Post-doctoral Fellow, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard
| belaia_summary_final.pdf | 87 KB |
| Belaia slides | 0 bytes |
2017
Nov
20
Advancing Zero Emissions Objectives through PJM's Wholesale Electricity Markets
Date:
Monday, November 20, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Stu Bresler, Executive Vice President, Operations and Markets, PJM Interconnection
| bresler_summary_final.pdf | 95 KB |
| Bresler slides | 3.1 MB |
2017
Nov
13
Charging Electric Cars--The Challenges
Date:
Monday, November 13, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Henry Lee, Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resource Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS
| Lee slides | 440 KB |
2017
Nov
06
On a World Climate Assembly and the Social Cost of Carbon
Date:
Monday, November 6, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Martin Weitzman, Professor of Economics, Harvard
| Weitzman slides | 96 KB |
| weitzman_summary_final_2017.pdf | 214 KB |
2017
Oct
30
HouseZero: A First-of-its-kind, Ultra-efficient Retrofit
Date:
Monday, October 30, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Ali Malkawi, Professor of Architectural Technology and Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities
| malkawi_summary_final.pdf | 222 KB |
2017
Oct
23
American Energy Policy: The Search for Common Ground
Date:
Monday, October 23, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Dan Poneman, President and CEO, Centrus Energy Corp.; Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
| poneman_summary_fall_2017.pdf | 225 KB |
2017
Oct
16
Can Wholesale Power Markets Survive Subsidies?
Date:
Monday, October 16, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Joseph Bowring, President, Monitoring Analytics, and Independent Market Monitor, PJM
| Bowring slides | 972 KB |
| bowring_summary_final_oct_2017.pdf | 89 KB |
2017
Oct
02
Vehicle Electrification in China: Preferences, Policy, and Technology Trajectories
Date:
Monday, October 2, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: John Helveston, Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Boston University
| Helveston slides | 3.3 MB |
| helveston_summary_final_fall_2017.pdf | 296 KB |
2017
Sep
25
The Political Economy of Carbon Taxes
Date:
Monday, September 25, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Jerry Taylor, President, Niskanen Center
2017
Sep
18
Investigating ARPA-E as a Model for Energy Innovation Funding
Date:
Monday, September 18, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Anna Goldstein, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science
| anna_goldstein_summary_final.pdf | 217 KB |
2017
Sep
11
Will We Adapt? Labor Productivity and Adaptation to Climate Change in the United States
Date:
Monday, September 11, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Jisung Park, Post-doctoral Fellow, HKS
| jisung_park_summary_final.pdf | 89 KB |
2017
May
01
The Utility of the Future
Date:
Monday, May 1, 2017, 12:15pm
Speaker: Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Visiting Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT, and Professor & Director of the BP Chair on Energy & Sustainability, Instituto de Investigacio Tecnologica (IIT) Universidad Pontificia Comillas
2017
Apr
24
Valuing Climate Damages: Updating Estimation of the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide
Date:
Monday, April 24, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Richard Newell, President and CEO, Resources for the Future
2017
Apr
17
Benefits of Coordination: Reducing Renewable Curtailment and Phasing Out Coal in China
Date:
Monday, April 17, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Wei Peng and Zhimin Mao, Giorgio Ruffolo Postdoctoral Research Fellows in Sustainability Science, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
| renewablecurtailmentandcoalphaseout_maoandpeng_04172017.pdf | 10.64 MB |
2017
Apr
10
California and Guangdong: A Tale of Two Cap-and-trade Programs
Date:
Monday, April 10, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Pu Wang, Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability Science in the Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
| wang_summary_final_2017_01.pdf | 297 KB |
| wang_presentation.pdf | 1.18 MB |
2017
Apr
03
US Natural Gas Market Evolution
Date:
Monday, April 3, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Richard O'Neill, Chief Economic Adviser, Federa Energy Regulatory Commission
| oneill_summary_final.pdf | 111 KB |
| oneill_presentation_us_natural_gas_market_evolution.pdf | 5.42 MB |
2017
Mar
27
Which Social Cost of Carbon?
Date:
Monday, March 27, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Matthew Kotchen, Professor of Economics, Yale University
| kotchen_final_summary.pdf | 92 KB |
| kotchen_slides.pdf | 332 KB |
2017
Mar
20
Limits of Bioenergy for Carbon Mitigation
Date:
Monday, March 20, 2017, 12:00pm
Speaker: Alexandre Strapasson, Giorgio Ruffolo Research Fellow in Sustainability, Science/Environment and Natural Resources Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, HKS
| strapasson_summary_final.pdf | 95 KB |
| presentation_alexandre_strapasson_final.pdf | 2.13 MB |