Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center

2004-05 Seminars

The Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center sponsors a weekly seminar series on Thursdays at 12:00 PM in the EPP conference room (Baker Hall 109). 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 Dolores Matthews (doloresm@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
5/19/05	EPP Conference Room	Joel Tarr Carnegie Mellon University	"The Rise and Fall of the Manufactured Gas Industry in the United States"
5/12/05	EPP Conference Room	Khoi Vu Power Technology Department ABB US Corporate Research Center	"Steps toward a wide-area protection system for Power Grids"
4/28/05	EPP Conference Room	John Harper Geologist Supervisor Pennsylvania Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey	"An Overview of Carbon Sequestration in Pennsylvania"
4/21/05	EPP Conference Room	Sonny Popowsky Consumer Advocate of Pennsylvania	"Impacts of Global Warming on Consumers"
4/14/05	EPP Conference Room	John S. Rohrbach Lukens Energy Group	"Perspectives on ISO-New England's proposed Locational Installed Capacity Market"
4/7/05	EPP Conference Room	David Hadley Indiana Public Utility Commission	"IGCC and PUCs"
3/31/05	EPP Conference Room	Michael Ashworth	"Workforce Issues in the Electric Power Industry"
3/24/05	EPP Conference Room	Geoffrey A. Landis NASA Glenn Research Center	"Power technology research at NASA Glenn Research Center"
3/17/05	EPP Conference Room	Melanie Kenderdine GTI	"Considerations of LNG"
2/24/05	EPP Conference Room	William Rosenberg Harvard University	"3- Party Covenant for Financing IGCC"
2/10/05	EPP Conference Room	Karl Pfirrmann President PJM West	"PJM West and the Future"
2/3/05	EPP Conference Room	Jason Black MIT	"Demand Response as a Substitute for Electric Power System Infrastructure Investments"
1/27/05	No Seminar Scheduled!
1/20/05	EPP Conference Room	Dalia Patino Echeverri Carnegie Mellon University	"Electricity Financial Transmission Rights as Hedging Instruments"
12/9/04	EPP Conference Room	Phillip G. Harris President and CEO, The PJM Interconnect, Inc.	"Making a Fortune in the 21st Century"
12/2/04	EPP Conference Room	Mark B. Lively	Wide Open Load Following (WOLF): As Applied to Reactive Power
11/18/04	EPP Conference Room	David Rode Director, DAI Management Consultants	Aftershock: Deregulation and Stranded Cost Recovery
10/28/04	EPP Conference Room	Prof. Ed Rubin CMU	Comparative Assessments Of Fossil Fuel Power Plants With CO2 Capture And Storage
10/21/04	EPP Conference Room	Karsten Neuhoff Cambridge University	The impact of CO2 allocation on electricity prices
10/14/04	EPP Conference Room	Serhiy Kotsan West Virginia University Department of Economics	Mean-Variance Portfolio Analysis of the Locational Value of Generation Assets
9/30/04	EPP Conference Room	Mike Adibi IRD, Inc.	Power System Restoration after Failures
9/23/04	EPP Conference Room	Bruce Edelston Director, Policy and Planning, Southern Company	Alternative models for Deregulating the Electric Power Industry
9/16/04	EPP Conference Room	Fabien Roques PhD Student, Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge University	Investment Incentives in Electricity Markets
9/9/04	EPP Conference Room	Granger Morgan and Lester Lave EPP & Tepper School	The EPRI Summer Study: The Future of Electric Power
9/2/04	EPP Conference Room	Katerina Dobesova Visiting Fulbright Scholar in EPP from the University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic	Costs of the Texas renewables portfolio standard

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