Research Workshops

Introduction

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Session 1: Pricing Pollution at the Border: A Look at Future Options

• Matthew Bolden, U.S. Senate (no slides used)

• Micah Chambers, U.S. Senate (no slides used)

• Christine Harbin, U.S. Senate (no slides used)

• Catherine Wolfram, MIT (no slides used)

Session 2: Can the Grid Handle Projected Data Center Growth?

• Introductory Remarks by Morgan Andreae, MIT

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• Uncertainty and Upside Bias are Inherent in Data Center Electricity Demand Projections by Marie Fagan, London Economics International

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• Flexible Data Centers and the Grid: Lower Costs, Higher Emissions? by Juan Ramon L. Senga, MIT

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Session 3: Securing Energy Affordability in an Evolving Policy Landscape

• Energy Affordability: Framing the Discussion by Christopher Knittel, MIT

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• Affordability of Retail Electricity in ERCOT Competitive Market by Margo Weisz, TEPRI

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Session 4: Energy Showdown: Chinese "Electrostate" vs. U.S. "Petrostate"?

• Remarks on the US and Chinese Energy Markets by Mark Finley, Rice University (no slides used)

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• Electro-state vs Petro-state? U.S. Industrial Strategy and Energy Security by Elisabeth Reynolds, MIT

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• Will the China 'Electrostate' Dominate the U.S. 'Petrostate'? by Michael Davidson, UCSD

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Session 5: Whither Transportation Policy? Trends and Implications

• Poor Public Charging Reliability Can Impede Growth of the Electric Vehicle Market by Don MacKenzie, University of Washington

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• From Tank to Odometer: Winners and Losers from a Gas-to-VMT Tax Shift by Gilbert Metcalf, MIT

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Session 6: Communities in Transition: Findings from the Roosevelt Project

• Opening Remarks by Ernest J. Moniz, MIT (no slides used)

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• Iron and Steel Decarbonization by 2050 by David A. Foster, MIT

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• Revitalizing America’s Critical Mineral Industry by Ilenia Gaia Romani, Abigail Randall, and Christopher Knittel, MIT

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• Crossed Wires: The Development of LongDistance Transmission Lines in the U.S. by Stephen Ansolabehere, Harvard

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General Materials

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Session 1: Energy Security and Geopolitics: Implications for Europe

• Stress-Testing Europe’s Energy Resilience: Scenario Analysis of Weather and Geopolitical Shocks by Chyong Kong, OIES

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• Caught in the Crossfire? Climate Policy and Geostrategic Rivalry in U.S.–China–EU Relations by Michael Mehling, MIT

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• The Thin Turquoise Line: Winners and Losers of Energy-and-Digital Transition by Maciej Sokołowski, University of Warsaw

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Session 2: Decarbonizing Heating Systems

• Decarbonisation of District Heating Systems by Wojciech Bujalski, Warsaw University of Technology

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• Decarbonizing Heating Systems by Hussam Jouhara, Brunel University

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• Do Households Make Informed Decisions about Energy Efficiency? by Juan Palacios, MIT & Maastrich

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• Decarbonising Residential Heat: A European Overview and a Case Study of the UK by David Reiner, University of Cambridge

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Session 3: The Renaissance of Nuclear Energy and the Role of SMRs in Decarbonization

• Polish Nuclear Power Program and SMRs by Paweł Gajda, Polish Ministry of Industry

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• The Renaissance of Nuclear Energy and the Role of SMRs in Decarbonization by John Parsons, MIT

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• SMRs: Defining What We Mean; UK Experience by Simon Taylor, University of Cambridge

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Session 4: Climate and Trade: Polish and Global Perspectives

• Climate and Trade: What Role for Trade Policy in Supporting the EU’s Sustainable Energy Transition? by Robert Basedow, London School of Economics

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• CBAM a Step Towards Restoring the Competitiveness of Polish and European Industry on the Way to Climate Neutrality by Robert Jeszke, CAKE

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• Climate and Trade: Polish and Global Perspective by Catherine Wolfram, MIT

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Keynote Speech: Powering Europe's Future - Navigating a Sustainable Energy Transition with Security and Affordability

• Baltic Cooperation Momentum for Energy Transition by Konrad Jar, ORLEN

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Session 5: Opportunities for the Energy Transition in the Baltic Sea Region

• What Are We Forgetting About the Future of Energy? by Saulius Gudžius, Kaunas University of Technology

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• Renewable Energy in the Baltic States: Is Geothermal Energy the Way Forward? by Jurgita Malinauskaite, Brunel University

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• Energy Transition: Between Ambition and Social Resistance by Sylwia Mrozowska, University of Gdansk

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Session 6: Towards a Just Energy Transition: Transatlantic Insights

• Are Fast, Affordable and Just Transition Realistic? by Aleh Cherp, Central European University

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• Equity Issues with Decarbonization in the US by Christopher Knittel, MIT

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• Politicizing the Justice and Security Implications of the Energy Transition. Evidence from the EU and the US by Arpad Topor, E-ARC

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Introduction

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Session 1: Short- and Long-term Prospects for the U.S. Fossil Fuel Sector

• End of Oil by Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago

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• Two Wrongs Can Sometimes Make a Right: The Environmental Benefits of Market Power in Oil by Christopher Knittel, MIT

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Session 2: Sustaining the Momentum for Nuclear Energy

• Nuclear Costs: Past and Future by W. Robb Stewart, Alva Energy

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• Breaking the Cost Escalation Curse of Nuclear Power by Shangwei Liu, Harvard University

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Session 3: Adjusting to a Changing Climate: Economic and Policy Implications

• Property Insurance and Disaster Risk: New Evidence from Mortgage Escrow Data by Philip Mulder, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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• Quantifying the Coastal Defense Value of a Marsh by Heidi Nepf, MIT

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Session 4: Policy Roundtable: Can There Be Climate Progress in the Absence of Federal Policy Direction?

• Senator Mike Barrett, Massachusetts State Senate (no slides used)

• Alex Flint, Alliance for Market Solutions (no slides used)

• Oliver Sellers-Garcia, City of Boston (no slides used)

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Session 5: Policy Roundtable: The Economic Cost of U.S. Climate Policy Reversals

• Elaine Buckberg, Harvard University

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• Sandy Grace, National Grid

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• Mike Keyser, NRCO

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Session 6: Trade Geopolitics, and Implications for the Energy Transition

• Perspectives on the Energy Transition by Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, Third Way

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• US-China Trade War and LNG Trade by Erica Downs, Columbia University

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