Research Workshops

Introduction

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• Speaker and Moderator Bios

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Session 1: Data Centers: Implications for the Energy System

• Powering Data Centers by Tom Wilson, EPRI

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• Policies to Enable Data Center Investment by John Parsons, MIT

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Session 2: What's Next for the IRA? Clean Investment After the Election

• Clean Investment Monitor by Lily Bermel, MIT

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• Two Years In & Two Years Ahead: An IRA Implementation Update by Luke Bassett, U.S. Treasury

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Session 3: Trade and Climate Policy: Options for Policymakers

• Trade and Climate Policy by Michael Mehling, MIT

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• The Case for Climate and Trade by Catrina Rorke, Climate Leadership Council

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Session 4: Overcoming Barriers to Large-Scale Energy Projects

• Overcoming Barriers to Rapid Clean Energy Deployment by Patrick Brown, NREL

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• Estimating the Costs of Building Transmission: Impacts on Transmission Policy by Juan Senga, MIT

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Dinner Address

• Ernest J. Moniz, MIT

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Session 5: Headwinds for Low-Carbon Mobility? Separating Reality from Rhetoric

• The Shifting EV Landscape by James Stock, Harvard University

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• Entry and Coordination in the Electric Vehicle Charging Industry by Katalin Springel, HEC Montréal

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Session 6: Policy Roundtable: Roosevelt Project - Takeaways for the Next Administration

• Crossed Wires: The Development of Long-Distance Transmission Lines in the U.S. by Ari Peskoe and Elizabeth Thom, Harvard University

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• Iron and Steel Decarbonization by 2050: Opportunities for Workers and Communities by Valerie Karplus, Carnegie Mellon University

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• Challenges and Recommendations for Mineral Mining in the Energy Transition by Christopher Knittel, MIT

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General Materials

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Session 1: Overcoming the Bottleneck: The Role of Energy Infrastructure

• Overcoming the Bottleneck by Christine Brandstätt, CSEI

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• Crossed Wires: Two Transmission Problems Imperil US Decarbonization by Richard Schmalensee, MIT

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Session 2: Accelerating the Deployment of Renewable Energy: Challenges and Lessons Learned

• Marginal Curtailment Spill-overs of Variable Renewable Electricity: Implications by David Newbery, EPRG

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• Integrating Renewable Energy Through Contracts-for-Difference by Lena Kitzing, DTU

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Session 3: Maritime Ports and Shipping: Gateways for the Energy Transition?

• Why Ports as Energy Transition Hubs Fascinates Me by Henrik Sornn-Friese, CBS

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• Maritime Ports and Shipping: Gateways for the Energy Transition? by Marie Münster, DTU

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Session 4: How to Ensure a Just Transition: Global and Regional Insights

• Sustainable Growth in a Net Zero Circular Economy: Problems and Prospects by Parantap Basu, Durham University

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• The Distribution of Energy Transition Vulnerability in Employment by Christopher Knittel, MIT

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• Rising Temperatures, Melting Incomes, Falling Ratings! by Kamiar Mohaddes, EPRG

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Session 5: New Perspectives on Carbon Pricing

• Carbon Pricing versus Green Finance by Lasse Heje Pedersen, CBS

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• US Climate Policy and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms by Catherine Wolfram, MIT

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• The EU CBAM: Averting Emissions Leakage or Promoting the Diffusion of Carbon Pricing? by Michael Mehling, MIT

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Session 6: Policy Roundtable: Reforming Electricity Markets for an Evolving Energy Landscape (no slides used)

• Panelists:

• Carlos Batlle, MIT, Comillas, & FSR

• Tooraj Jamasb, CSEI

• Dogan Keles, DTU

• Leonardo Meeus, FSR

• Michael Pollitt, EPRG

Introduction

• Agenda

• Document

• Speaker and Moderator Bios

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Session 1: Adapting to a Changing World: Behavioral Responses to Climate Change

• Valuing Technology Complementarities: Rooftop Solar and Energy Storage by Bryan Bollinger, NYU

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• Wildfire Smoke Causes Out-Migration from California by Christopher Knittel and Benjamin Krebs, MIT

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Session 2: Is the Electrification of Road Transport Stalling?

• EV Charging: Real Time Data by Elaine Buckberg, Harvard

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• Is EV Stalling? by Jinhua Zhao, MIT

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Associates Luncheon Presentation

• Mapping Energy Poverty in the United States by Peter Heller, MIT

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Session 3: Incentivizing Infrastructure Deployment for the Energy Transition

• Can Digitalization Improve Public Services? Evidence from Innovation in Energy Management by Jacquelyn Pless, MIT

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• Evaluating the Impact of the BIG WIRES Act by Juan Ramon L. Senga, MIT

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Session 4: Policy Roundtable - 2024 Elections: What's at Stake for Energy and Climate?

• Joseph Aldy, Harvard (no slides used)

• George David Banks, Atlantic Council (no slides used)

• Gilbert E. Metcalf, MIT (no slides used)

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Dinner Address

• Brian Deese, MIT (no slides used)

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Session 5: Addressing Bottlenecks to U.S. Electricity Decarbonization

• New FERC Rules Governing Transmission Planning and Backstop Permitting by Paul L. Joskow, MIT

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• Addressing Bottlenecks to U.S. Electricity Decarbonization by Patrick Brown, NREL

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Session 6: Securing an Equitable Energy Transition

• Doing the Dirty Work The Distribution of Energy Transition Vulnerability in Employment by Kailin Graham, MIT

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• An Equitable Transition for Critical Mineral Mining in the US by Abigail Randall, MIT

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