POLICY BRIEFINGS, TESTIMONY & PRESENTATIONS
Pat Semansky
December 1, 2007
Neighborhood Leadership Forum with Boston's Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
DSNI travels to New Orleans to provide a hands-on workshop for ideas, skills, and resources local neighborhoods can use to implement real change at home.
October 14, 2009
"Expert Elicitation of Cost, Performance, and RD&D Budgets for Greenhouse Gas Reducing Strategies"
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"
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.
May 20, 2009
"Acting in Time on Energy Policy"
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
This policy brief outlines urgent priorities for U.S. energy policy at the dawn of the Obama administration, and recommends specific steps that the U.S. government should take to address the numerous energy-related challenges facing the United States. It is based on the book, Acting in Time on Energy Policy (Brookings 2009), edited by Kelly Sims Gallagher, director of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center.
We concentrate on six topics: climate change policy, carbon capture and storage policy, oil security policy, energy-technology innovation policy, electricity market structure, and infrastructure policy. The United States cannot afford to wait any longer to enact long-term policies on these topics. In fact, acting early is clearly in the longer-term interest of the United States.
April 6, 2009
"Scaling Dynamics in Energy Technologies: Historical Evidence & Implications"
Historical patterns of growth across a range of energy technologies are used to explore "scaling". Scaling is used to describe a particular form of growth that is (i) both rapid and substantive, taking into account the overall size of the energy system, and (ii) occurs at multiple levels from the technical unit and/or plant to the industry as a whole (e.g., from a wind turbine or wind farm to total installed wind capacity or manufacturing output). Scaling dynamics are assessed in historical time series data on vehicles, jet aircraft, refineries, and power plants (nuclear, coal, gas, wind). In those cases for which S-shaped growth is clearly evidenced, logistic function parameters are used to compare scaling across different technologies.
February 24, 2009
Exploring Opportunities and Enabling Technologies for Carbon Capture and Storage in China
By Hengwei Liu, Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
In this presentation, Liu: (1) explores major opportunities for deployment of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies in China; (2) identifies critical enabling technologies for CCS to underpin future Chinese capacity to respond to climate change; (3) and assesses China’s capabilities to develop critical CCS enabling technologies.
January 27, 2009
International Climate Policy for a Post-Kyoto World: Understanding Sectoral Approaches
By Jonas Meckling, Research Fellow, Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements and Gu Yoon Chung
In this presentation, Meckling and Chung identify types of sectoral approaches and their analysis of the politics behind key proposals.
November 20, 2008
"Sustainable Energy Development of India"
The author analyses the implications of economic growth for removing poverty and inequity, in respect of the twin challenges of environmental sustainability and energy security in India.
October 7, 2008
"Equity and Climate Policy: An Allocation Method Based on Individual Emissions"
By Shoibal Chakravarty, Ananth Chikkatur, Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy and Massimo Tavoni
The speakers presented a new framework for allocation of a global carbon reduction target among nations, in which "common but differentiated responsibilities" refers to the emissions of individuals, rather than of nations.
September 16, 2008
"Coal Use in India and China: Supply, Demand, and Generation"
By Ananth Chikkatur, Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
In this talk, Chikkatur presents India's and China's key energy challenges, challenges specific to the electricity and coal sectors, an overview of coal resources and reserves, and current and future coal technologies. Finally, Chikkatur suggests some key takeaways from his research.
