ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
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.
In Press
"Technical, Environmental, and Economic Assessment of Deploying Advanced Coal Power Technologies in the Chinese Context"
Journal Article, Energy Policy
By Lifeng Zhao, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Yunhan Xiao, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy, Bo Wang and Xiang Xu
The authors evaluate the differences in technical performance, environmental impact, and costs for capital and electricity for a variety of advanced coal power technologies based on the technological and economic levels in 2006 in China. This study investigates especially the economic gaps between Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle - the technology most able to capture CO2 at a relatively low cost - and other advanced coal power technologies.
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.
Spring 2008
Free: College Curriculum Package Simulates Oil Crisis
Announcement
By Eric Rosenbach, Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE), in collaboration with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, has created a free college curriculum box set that includes all of the materials needed to conduct an energy crisis simulation in your classroom. The exercise is based on Oil ShockWave™, SAFE's one-of-a-kind oil crisis simulation, which has featured participants such as Defense Secretary Robert Gates, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Dan Yergin and former director of the CIA R. James Woolsey.
March 18, 2008
"Energy R&D Policy: 'Embracing' Failure"
Presentation
By Jack Johnston, Planning Executive, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company (retired)
Former ExxonMobil executive Jack Johnston presented on technology and how a more systematic approach to thinking about failure in complex systems could enable us to more effectively pursue technology as well as formulate and evolve policy.
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.
March 4, 2008
"Application Oriented R&D: Aphorisms and Anecdotes"
Presentation
By Robert Frosch, Senior Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
Dr. Frosch shares lessons from his experience trying to perform, and lead, application oriented R&D. Some of these lessons are encapsulated in aphorisms. Some aphorisms are presented, with explication, and illustrated with anecdotes from experience with the Navy, ARPA, NASA, and General Motors.
