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Melissa Chan

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Melissa Chan

Research Fellow, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy Project, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group

Contact:
Telephone: 617-496-2705
Fax: 617-496-0600
Email: melissa_chan@hks.harvard.edu

 

Experience

Melissa Chan is a Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment (ERD3) Policy project Research Fellow. Her research interests include energy technology innovation, energy resource development, energy efficiency, climate change, environmental impacts of technological choices, and life cycle analysis of energy systems. Her contribution to the ERD3 project will be a set of federal R&D budgets and technology portfolios that can reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Before joining the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Melissa was an energy analyst at the U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory (2000–2006), and earned her Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon (2008). Her past work includes a life-cycle analysis of possible hydrogen energy infrastructure, analysis of policies to support carbon sequestration in the U.S. and abroad, and estimation of current and future anthropogenic mercury emissions in China, and an analysis of the total cost of future U.S. coal extraction under hypothetical stringent environmental regulation.

 

 

By Date

2009

October 14, 2009

"Expert Elicitation of Cost, Performance, and RD&D Budgets for Greenhouse Gas Reducing Strategies"

Presentation

By Melissa Chan, Research Fellow, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy Project, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group and Laura Diaz Anadon, Project Manager, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy Project, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group

Melissa Chan and Laura Diaz Anadon of the Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project presented at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

 

 

June 1, 2009

"A Technology-Based Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy for 2030"

Presentation

By Melissa Chan, Research Fellow, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy Project, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group and Laura Diaz Anadon, Project Manager, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy Project, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group

"A Technology-Based Greenhouse Gas Reduction Strategy for 2030" was presented by Melissa Chan and Laura Diaz Anadon of the Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment (ERD3) Policy Project at the U.S. Society of Ecological Economics 2009 Conference, Washington, D.C., June 1, 2009.

 

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