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" |
