ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
November 22, 2011
Researchers Draft Blueprint to Boost Energy Innovation
Press Release
By James F. Smith, Communications Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
The U.S. government could save the economy hundreds of billions of dollars per year by 2050 by spending a few billion dollars more a year to spur innovations in energy technology, according to a new report by researchers at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The three-year project by the Belfer Center's Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group calls for doubling investment and adopting policy changes in energy technology.
November 21, 2011
Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation Video
Media Feature
By Laura Diaz Anadon, Associate Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program; Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
An interview with Laura D. Anadon and Matthew Bunn, two of the authors of Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation (8 minutes).
November 20, 2011
"Oil majors the key to unlocking potential"
In the News
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Dubai Initiative associate Justin Dargin is quoted in The National for an article on the efforts of international companies to extract oil and gas from the Levant Basin, where hydrocarbons are trapped under the seabed at depths of more than 7,000 meters.
November 9, 2011
Background: Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation Report
Fact Sheet
By Laura Diaz Anadon, Associate Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program; Director, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Gabe Chan, Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Melissa Chan, Former Research Fellow, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy Project, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, January 2009–December 2010, Charles Jones, Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, Ruud Kempener, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 2009–2011, Audrey Lee, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 2009–2011, Nathaniel Logar, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program/Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group and Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti, Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy; Professor of Physics, Harvard; Director, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program; Co-Principal Investigator, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
The report, Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation, released on Nov. 22, 2011, is the result of a three-year energy research, development, demonstration, and deployment (ERD3) project of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) research group at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The ERD3 project was funded by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to produce and promote a comprehensive set of recommendations to help the U.S. administration accelerate the development and deployment of low-carbon energy technologies.
October 10, 2011
The EU and Shale Gas: The Way Ahead (Russian)
Media Feature
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Dubai Initiative Associate Justin Dargin participates in a press conference facilitated by the World Independent Energy Network (WIEN) in Moscow, Russia at the Russian national news agency, RIA Novosti.
October 3, 2011
"Saudi Aramco-U.S. Dow $20 billion petchem bid to spark high revenues"
In the News
By Justin Dargin, Former Associate, The Dubai Initiative
Dubai Initiative Associate Justin Dargin speaks to Al-Arabiya English about the new venture between Saudi Aramco and US Dow to build a petrochemical plant.
AP Photo
Summer 2011
"What Next on Climate?"
Journal Article, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, issue 21
By Joseph E. Aldy, Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, Vicki Arroyo, Alex Laskey, Manik Roy, Lexi Schultz and Bryan Walsh
The effort to address climate change stumbled with the failure to pass cap-and-trade. What should happen now? Five experts, including the Harvard Project's Joe Aldy, discuss the future of U.S. climate and energy policy.
July 2011
"Putting It All Together: The Real World of Fully Integrated CCS Projects"
Discussion Paper
This study examines the legal, regulatory and financial issues encountered in nine planned commercial-scale carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects under Phase III of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships (RCSP) Program. In Phase III of the RCSP, financial issues dominated the outcomes in these projects, directly causing termination of three of the projects and contributing to termination in two others. Long-term liability and lack of coordination among regulatory authorities also posed significant barriers.
October 29, 2010
Summary Report of Expert Workshop Addressing CCS Liability, Oversight, and Trust Fund Issues
Summary Report
This paper summarizes the discussions from a workshop convened by the Harvard Law School's Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic in Washington, DC on June 21, 2010.
There is broad consensus in scientific, business, and political circles that carbon capture and sequestration ("CCS") must be demonstrated quickly on a large scale because it is likely to be an important technology for reducing carbon dioxide ("CO2") emissions throughout the world. Indeed, a number of commentators predict that it may be impossible to achieve significant emissions reduction in the United States and abroad without the use of CCS.
April 20, 2011
"Now is the Time to Be Bold: A Call for New Technology, Policy... and Thinking"
Op-Ed, Washington Post
By Henry Lee, Director, Environment and Natural Resources Program
"The bottom line is that the United States must invest now in the development and implementation of new energy technologies. We need a new menu of energy options, which means: stable funding for energy R&D; strong incentives to pull new technologies into the market place; and effective mechanisms to ensure that technologies have a chance to compete."
