The Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center sponsors a weekly seminar series
in the EPP conference room (Baker Hall 129). These seminars provide an informal
means of presenting research, listening to outside speakers, and learning about
the electricity industry. Upcoming and past seminar speakers and topics are
listed below. When possible the slides for the talk are also available.
If you would like to give a seminar, or have a good idea for a seminar topic,
please contact Jay
Apt (apt@cmu.edu or 412-268-3003).
| Date/Day/Time |
Location |
Speaker |
Title |
Wednesday
6/11/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
L. Doug Carter
Senior Energy Advisor
VanNessFeldmanBen Yamagata
Member
VanNessFeldman
|
"Law Firms and Congressional Action on
Climate Change" |
Wednesday 5/14/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Lauren Fleishman
PhD student
EPP , Carnegie Mellon University |
"Public
Perceptions of Carbon Capture and Sequestration and Other Low-Carbon
Electricity Technologies" |
Thursday
5/8/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Dr. Ananth Chikkatur
Energy Technology Innovation Policy Project
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University |
"Towards
Sustainable Coal Power in India" |
Wednesday
4/30/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Ralph D. Masiello
Sr. Vice President
Energy Systems Consulting
KEMA, Inc. |
"The CO2 and
NOX Impacts on Plants as a Result of Regulation Cycling" |
Wednesday
4/23/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Kenneth Kern
Director of the Office of Systems, Analysis and Planning
National Energy Technology Laboratory |
"Coping with
Competing Energy Strategy Directions"
|
Wednesday
4/2/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Tom Holsen
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Clarkson University |
"Mercury
Contamination in the Northeastern US: The Importance of Regional versus Global
Sources" |
Wednesday
3/26/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
John Bistline
Carnegie Mellon University |
"Impacts of Electricity Generation on Water Resources" |
Wednesday 3/19/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Dr. Elmar Kriegler
Visiting Researcher
EPP and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |
"The Role of
Carbon Dioxide Capture from Ambient Air for Achieving Ambitious Climate
Protection Targets." |
CANCELLED
Thursday
3/6/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
CANCELLED
Ralph D. Masiello
Sr. Vice President
Energy Systems Consulting
KEMA, Inc. |
CANCELLED |
NEW DATE
Wednesday
3/5/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Fan Zhang
Assistant Professor in Energy Policy and Economics
Pennsylvania State University |
"Does
Electricity Restructuring Benefit the Environment? Theory and Evidence from
Intertemporal Emission Trading in the U.S. SO2 Allowance Market" |
Wednesday
2/27/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Ken Huber
PJM Interconnection
|
"New Technology
at PJM" |
Wednesday
2/20/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Prof. John Scofield,
Oberlin College
|
"Lowering Green
House Gas Emission through Better Buildings -- What is Possible?" |
Wednesday
2/13/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Michiel Houwing
visiting PhD student
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands |
"Intelligent
Control of Distributed Energy Resources; the Case of Micro Combined Heat and
Power Systems" |
NEW DATE
Tuesday
2/5/08
Noon |
EPP Conference
Room |
Inês Lima Azevedo
Carnegie Mellon University
|
"Realistic
Regional Energy Efficiency and Conservation Supply Curves for the Residential
Sector: First Steps." |
Wednesday
1/30/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Daniel Cohan
Assistant Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rice University |
"Electric power
generation and air quality" |
Thursday
1/24/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Dr. Richard Benjamin
FERC
|
"Generation,
Transmission, and the Load Pocket Problem" |
Wednesday
1/16/08
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Klaus Lackner
Professor
Columbia University |
"Managing
Emissions from Fossil Energy Resources" |
Monday
12/10/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
John A. "Skip" Laitner
Senior Economist for Technology Policy
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)
|
"Energy
Efficiency models and results" |
NEW DATE
Friday 11/30/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
David Victor
Director
Program on Energy and Sustainable Development
Senior Fellow
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Professor of Law
Stanford University |
"Protecting the Planet: New Strategies for
Cooling the Climate and Solving other Global Problems" |
Wednesday 11/28/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Revis James
EPRI |
"The Power to
Reduce CO2 Emissions: The Full Portfolio" |
Wednesday
11/14/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Gong Zhang, Ph.D.
Senior Engineer
Stationary Fuel Cells
Siemens Power Generation |
"Fuel Cell
Technology and Public Policy" |
Wednesday 11/7/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Conrad Anderson
Madison Power |
"Developing
Gasification Projects in a Difficult Environment" |
Friday
11/2/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Yuji Yamada
Graduate School of Business Sciences
University of Tsukuba |
"Weather
derivatives on prediction errors for wind power energy trading" |
Wednesday 10/31/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Jim Rawson
GE Global Research |
"Geological
Storage of CO2 from Coal-Fired Plants" |
NEW DATE
Friday 10/26/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Mark Kapner
Senior Strategy Engineer
Austin Energy |
"Renewable
Energy and the Electric Future of Texas" |
Wednesday 10/10/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
John Tombari
Vice President North & South America
Schlumberger Carbon Services |
"The Life of a
Geologic CO2 Storage Site" |
Wednesday 10/3/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Eduardo Camponagara
Professor, Department of Automation and Systems Engineering
Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil |
"Model
Predictive Control for Traffic Networks" |
Tuesday 10/2/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Norm Shilling
Carbon Leader for GE Gasification
GE Power Systems
|
Accelerating
IGCC with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) |
Wednesday
9/26/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Julianne Klara
Senior Analyst
Office of Systems, Analysis and Planning at the National Energy Technology
Laboratory (NETL) of the Department of Energy (DOE) |
"Cost and
Performance of Fossil Energy Power Plants:
Current-Day Designs" |
Wednesday
9/12/07
Noon |
EPP Conference Room |
Dr. Aimee Curtright
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Climate Decision Making Center |
"Photovoltaic
Technology Options for Addressing Climate Change: An Expert Elicitation" |
