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 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 |
