Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center

2005-06 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 129) or in Hamburg Hall 2503. 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
5/30/06	EPP Conference Room	Chris Marnay Staff Scientist Berkeley Lab	"Towards Systemic Analysis of Building Energy Systems"
4/20/06	EPP Conference Room	Rodger McKain President, SOFCo-EFS Holdings LLC	"Fuel Cells, an Emerging High-Technology Industry"
4/6/06	EPP Conference Room	Dr. Stephen Kuznetsov President, Power Superconductor Applications Corp.	"Latest Advances in Superconducting Power Apparatus for Electric Utilities"
3/16/06	EPP Conference Room	Peter Behr Washington Post	"Electricity Deregulation - A Political Failure."
3/9/06	EPP Conference Room	David C. Cannon Jr. Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety Allegheny Energy, Inc.	"Improving Environmental Performance in the Midst of Financial Recovery: I'm scrubbing as fast as I can."
3/2/06	EPP Conference Room	Paul Joskow MIT	"Investment incentive issues and the interactions between engineering reliability standards and competitive electricity markets"
2/23/06	EPP Conference Room	Karen Herter Lawrence Berkeley Lab	"Temperature Effects on Residential Electric Price Response."
2/9/06	EPP Conference Room	William Rosenberg CMU	"Developing a gasification plant under the 3Party Covenant , utilizing Federal Loan Guarantees and Investment Tax Credits incentives enacted in EPACT 2000"
2/2/06	EPP Conference Room	Richard Munson Northeast Midwest Institute	"From Edison to Enron"
1/19/06	EPP Conference Room	Bob Cummings North American Electric Reliability Council	"Blackout of August 14, 2003 - Power System Forensic Analyses"
12/8/05	EPP Conference Room	Harvey Reiter Stinson Morrison Hecker, LLP., Washington D.C.	"The Contrasting Policies of the FCC and FERC Regarding the Importance of Open Transmission Networks in Downstream Competitive Markets"
12/1/05	Hamburg Hall 2503	Constantine Samaras Carnegie Mellon University	"Technical Advancements and Public Policies Affecting Wind Power's Past, Present and Future"
11/10/05	EPP Conference Room	Hamid Elahi Global Director GE Energy - Energy Solutions	"Power Market Overview"
11/8/05	EPP Conference Room	Adam Rose The Pennsylvania State University	Business Interruption Impacts of a Terrorist Attack on the Electric Power System of Los Angeles: Customer Resilience to a Total Blackout
11/3/05	EPP Conference Room	Dale Simbeck SFA Pacific, Inc.	"'Gaming' the Global Climate Change Issues"
10/31/05	EPP Conference Room	Bill Goldsmith Nucon Energy	"The Nucon Biomass plant: permits and finance in India"
10/27/05	EPP Conference Room	Michael Eastman Senior Manager Strategic Center for Coal National Energy Technology Laboratory	"U.S. Scene for Electric Power and Future Energy Systems -- Tipping Point or Opportunity for Clean Coal Technologies?"
10/20/05 4 PM Joint With ECE	Scaife Hall Auditorium	Kevin Clements Worcester Polytechnic Institute	"State Estimation"
10/6/05	EPP Conference Room	William Rosenberg Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard Kennedy School of Government	"Real-world Advice to Congress: How Gasification Tax Credits Became Law"
9/29/05	Hamburg Hall 2503	Paulina Jaramillo Carnegie Mellon University	"LIquefied Natural Gas"
9/22/05	EPP Conference Room	Paul Hines Carnegie Mellon University	"Nuclear Power Plants, Reactive Power, and FERC: a summary of work performed during a summer internship at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission"
9/15/05	Hamburg Hall 2503	Dr. Joule Bergerson Carnegie Mellon University	"Investment Decisions under the Uncertainty of Carbon Legislation"
9/8/05	EPP Conference Room	Prof. Granger Morgan Carnegie Mellon University	"The EPRI Summer Study and the NRECA Research Meeting"

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