Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center

2002-03 Seminars

The Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center sponsors a weekly seminar series at noon on Tuesdays in the EPP conference room. 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 plan on attending a seminar, please contact Marilyn Walgora (walgora@andrew.cmu.edu), so we can order sufficient food for lunch.

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	Location	Speaker	Title
6/16/03	EPP Conference Room	Dr. Rangan Banerjee Visiting Faculty EPP	Comparison of Options for Distributed Generation in India
5/13/03	EPP Conference Room	Anshu Bharadwaj Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Dept of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University	Solid Oxide fuel cells - An engineering economic analysis
5/06/03	EPP Conference Room	Santosh Ananthraman Chief Executive Officer, Pulse Metrics	Market Surveillance at Stock Exchanges: Lessons for the Electricity Industry
5/01/03	EPP Conference Room	Dr. Rattan Lal School of Natural Resources The Ohio State University	Soil Sequestration of Carbon
4/22/03	EPP Conference Room	Ed Rubin Alumni Professor of Environmental Engineering and Science, Carnegie Mellon University	Coal Gasification and the Meaning of Life
4/15/03	EPP Conference Room	Dr. Kalyan K. Sen Fellow Engineer at Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Corporation and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer	Recent Developments in Electric Power Transmission Technology
4/08/03	EPP Conference Room	Dr. Rahul Tongia E.P.P.	India's power sector: (de)regulation and reforms
4/01/03	EPP Conference Room	Dallas Burtraw Senior Fellow, Quality of the Environment Division, Resources For The Future	Integrated Assessment of Science and Economics for Designing Air Pollution Policies
3/18/03	EPP Conference Room	Audun Botterud Visiting doctoral candidate, MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment	Investment in generation assets under uncertainty in restructured power markets
3/11/03	EPP Conference Room	Joule Bergerson CEIC, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy	Transport of Coal by Rail vs. Transmission for Electricity Generation: An Application of Hybrid LCA Comparative Analysis
3/4/03	EPP Conference Room	Shalini Vajjhala CEIC, Engineering and Public Policy	Metrics for understanding transmission line siting
2/24/03 Monday 2 PM	EPP Conference Room	Bert N. Davis, Ph.D., P.E. Bert Davis & Associates Consulting Engineers	An engineering/economic analysis of solar photovoltaic power
2/18/03	EPP Conference Room	Dalia Patiño-Echeverri CEIC, Engineering and Public Policy	The effects of uncertainty on investment in emissions control for power plants
2/11/03	EPP Conference Room	Tim Johnson CEIC, Engineering and Public Policy	Multipollutant Emissions Reduction and CO2 Control: The Costs of Regulatory Uncertainty
2/3/03 *Monday*	EPP Conference Room	Marija Ilic CEIC, Engineering and Public Policy and Electrical and Computer Engineering	Making electric power systems both secure and efficient: Protocols for dynamic energy control (PDEC)
12/5/02	EPP Conference Room	Richard Silberglitt RAND	Analysis of distributed generation in metropolitan Chicago, including load flow analysis
11/25/02	EPP Conference Room	Ellen Ewart Senior Consultant, Platts/RDI	Structure and Outlook for the U.S. Coal and power industries
11/5/02	EPP Conference Room	Shimon Awerbuch International Energy Agency	Valuing Renewables and Other New Technology (Coupled With a Digression on T&D Network Organization, Regulation and Pricing)
11/1/02	EPP Conference Room	Bruce Wollenberg University of Minnesota	Optimizing the Operation of Power System Open Markets
10/21/02	EPP Conference Room	Tom Schneider Private Consultant (ex-EPRI)	R&D Strategies for the Electricity Industry
10/15/02	GSIA - CBI Lounge	Kate Jackson Exeuctive Vice President, River System & Environment, Tennessee Valley Authority	Introduction to TVA and power supply planning, plus issues for Standard Market Design
10/10/02	GSIA - CBI Lounge	Alex Farrell E.P.P.	Energy Supply Options for CMU
9/30/02	EPP Conference Room	Bill Lukin The Bolton Institute	Regulatory Reform in the U.K. Electricity Industry (Co-Sponsored with the History Department)
9/26/02	EPP Conference Room	Dave Loucks P.E., EATON\|Cutler-Hammer	Power quality and Distributed Generation: What Problem Are You Asking It To Solve?
9/23/02	GSIA 3rd Floor – CBI Lounge	Seth Blumsack and Lester Lave GSIA	Pivotal Firms and Market Power
9/19/02	EPP Conference room	Anshu Bharadwaj Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering & Engineering and Public Policy	Biomass gasification for rural distributed generation: engineering and economic analysis
9/9/02	Carnegie Bosch Institute Lounge (GSIA 3rd floor)	Barbara Barkovich Principal, Barkovich & Yap	Politics and Markets: The situation in California and its implications for the future
9/5/02	GSIA 388	Dimitri Perkehodstev, Seth Blumsack, and Lester Lave, Tepper	Measuring Market Power in Deregulated Generation Markets

2001-02 Seminars