ENERGY TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION POLICY
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June 2008
"Analysis of Policies to Reduce Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector"
Discussion Paper
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy and Gustavo Collantes, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
This study examines different policy scenarios for reducing GHG emissions and oil consumption in the U.S. transportation sector using a variant of the National Energy Modeling System (NEMS).
June 3, 2008
DOE FY09 Budget Request for Energy Research, Development & Demonstration – Commentary
Report
By Laura Diaz Anadon, Project Manager, Energy Research Development & Deployment Policy, Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy and Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Anadon, Gallagher, and Bunn offer their insight and analysis on the President's FY09 budget request for U.S. Department of Energy spending for energy research, development, and demonstration.
May 2008
"Returns to Scale in Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure and Deployment"
Discussion Paper
By Jeffrey Bielicki, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
In this Belfer Center discussion paper, Bielicki describes SimCCS, a cost-minimizing geospatial deployment model used to deploy CCS for a variety of combinations of CO2 sources and injection reservoirs. The purpose of SimCCS is to determine the returns to scale for CCS deployment and to unravel the determinants thereof.
May 24, 2008
"Need for an Integrated Energy Modelling Institution in India"
Magazine or Newspaper Article, Economic and Political Weekly, issue 21, volume 43
By Ananth Chikkatur, Research Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy and Shoibal Chakravarty
ETIP's Ananth Chikkatur and Princeton's Shoibal Chakravarty write in India's Economic & Political Weekly about that need for a government-supported statutory energy modeling institution - the Bureau of Energy Information and Analysis - that can develop in-house modeling and analysis capacity for India.
Martha Stewart
April 23, 2008
Electrification of Energy
Event Report
By Juha Kiviluoma, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy and Gustavo Collantes, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
The Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government organized a workshop on the Electrification of Energy.
March 14, 2008
"Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy To Meet America’s Energy Challenges"
Presentation
By John P. Holdren, Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
John P. Holdren provides the context for and an overview of the recommendations made by the National Commission on Energy Policy its 2004 and 2007 reports to the President and Congress of the United States.
February 2008
DOE Budget Authority for Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database
Fact Sheet
By Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy
This document contains 2008 updates to a database on U.S. government investments in energy research, development, and demonstration (ERD&D). The database, in Microsoft Excel format, tracks budget requests on ERD&D from 1978-2009 and includes several charts.
In Press
"Socio-Political Evaluation of Energy Deployment (SPEED): An Integrated Research Framework Analyzing Energy Technology Deployment"
Journal Article, Technological Forecasting & Social Change
By Jennie Stephens, Research Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Elizabeth J. Wilson and Tarla Rai Peterson
This paper proposes a systematic, interdisciplinary framework for the integrated analysis of regulatory, legal, political, economic, and social factors that influence energy technology deployment decisions at the state level.
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February 7, 2008
Energy Technology Innovation Policy Research Group Launches New Energy R&D Project
Press Release
The Belfer Center's Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group is launching a new three-year project to develop energy research policy recommendations, prepare annual budget commentaries, and assess energy technology innovation around the country.
January 25, 2008
"Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being"
Journal Article, Science, issue 5862, volume 319
By John P. Holdren, Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
"I would urge every scientist and engineer with an interest in the intersection of S&T with sustainable well-being...to 'tithe' 10% of your professional time and effort to working in these and other ways to increase the benefits of S&T for the human condition and to decrease the liabilities. If so much as a substantial fraction of the world's scientists and engineers resolved to do this much, the acceleration of progress toward sustainable well-being for all of Earth's inhabitants would surprise us all."
