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Past CEEPR Workshop Agendas

Every year CEEPR hosts 2 research Workshops here in Cambridge, Massachusetts – one in the Spring and one in the Fall. These are by invitation only and attended by the Associates who support the Center, as well as by colleagues with whom we are collaborating on research, and by government and civic leaders. We cover a wide range of subjects in the energy and environment field. A sample of agenda topics and speakers is given below. We have also included agendas from the summer European Workshop that is devoted to issues in the electricity industry. This Workshop has been co-hosted by our colleagues at the Electric Policy Research Group at Cambridge University and by a rotating Associate in Europe.  


May 2008

The Costs of Controlling Carbon Emission
Kenneth J. Ostrowski, McKinsey & Company
Richard G. Newell, Duke University
Transportation and Energy
William C. Wheaton, MIT
Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Brown University
Oil, Macroeconomics and the International Economy
Olivier Blanchard, MIT
Kristin J. Forbes, MIT
Competitive Electricity Markets
Steven L. Puller, Texas A&M University
Xiaochun Zhang, North China Electric Power University
John E. Parsons, MIT
Emissions Allocations and Trading
Meredith L. Fowlie, University of Michigan
A. Denny Ellerman, MIT
Contracts and Financing for New Investments
Jim Matheson, Flagship Ventures
John E. Parsons, MIT
Luncheon and Dinner Speakers
Sub Prime Lending - Paul S. Willen, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston
Jesús Reyes-Heroles, PEMEX
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The EU ETS: Perspective and Lessons

Washington DC, January 2008

Allocation in the EU ETS
A. Denny Ellerman, MIT
Barbara Buchner, International Energy Agency
David Harrison, NERA
The EUA Market: Who is Trading?
Anais Delbosc, Raphael Trotignon and Emilie Alberola,
Mission Climat
Philippe Ambrosi, IBRD
CO2 Price Effects on EU Industry
Neil Walker, University College
Julia Reinaud, International Energy Agency
CO2 Price Effects on the German Power Sector
Felix Matthes, Öko-Institut
Jean-Yves Caneill, Electricité de France
CO2 Price Effects Outside the EU-ETS: Domestic and Foreign Offsets
Christian de Perthuis and Benoît Leguet, Mission Climat
Abyd Karmali, Merrill Lynch
Containing CO2 Costs: The Safety Valve Revisited
Mort Webster, MIT
William A. Pizer, Resources for the Future
2008 Summer European Electricity Workshop

Co-hosted by EDF and the Cambridge University Electric Policy Research Group
La Defense, Paris

Click here to see the agenda and for links to the presentations.


Fall 2007

Electricity Congestion
Henrick Gåverud, Swedish Energy Agency
Paul L. Joskow, MIT
Integrated Oil and Gas Markets
Romain Lacombe and John E. Parsons, MIT
Jose Villar, Energy Information Agency
Liquidity in Energy Market
Jeff Harris, US Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Dean L. Wilde, DC Energy
US Climate and Energy Policy
A. Denny Ellerman MIT
William B. Bonvillian, MIT
Regulating Energy Markets
Lucas W. Davis, University of Michigan
Matthew White, Wharton
Renewables at Scale
John Reilly, MIT
Chien Wang, MIT
Luncheon Speaker
"Sarbanes Oxley" - Ryan LaFond, MIT
Dinner
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7th Joint Cambridge-MIT Electricity Policy Conference
London, September 2007


EU Competition Policy
EU Energy Sector Inquiry - Alistair Buchanan, Chief Executive, Ofgem
Energy sector competition policy: unbundling – David Newbery, EPRG
Integrating Electricity Markets
Strengths and weaknesses of Independent System Operators without ownership unbundling -Paul Joskow, MIT
Market integration: the Benelux case - Bert den Ouden, CEO APX
Security of gas supply – politics and policies
Does Europe Need an External Energy Policy? - Pierre Noel, EPRG
Addressing UK gas security of supply - Christof Rühl, BP
Reducing the carbon intensity of electricity
The Future of Coal, with special reference to carbon sequestration and storage - Howard Herzog, MIT
Technology policy to support the development of low-C technologies - Karsten Neuhoff, EPRG
Meeting the investment challenge facing energy networks
Future structure and regulation of transmission networks in Europe - Yves Smeers, CORE, Catholic University of Louvain
Regulating network investment and quality of service - Michael Pollitt, EPRG
The future of climate policies and emissions trading
Post 2012 framework ETS/Kyoto interaction - Michael Grubb and Karsten Neuhoff, EPRG
Evolving US policy towards carbon caps and climate change - Denny Ellerman, MIT
Luncheon and Dinner Speakers
"Economics and energy policy" - Jean Tirole, IDEI, Toulouse
"The prospects for effective climate change policies" - Sir Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics


Spring 2007

US State GHG Limitation Programs
A. Denny Ellerman, MIT
Dan Richard, formerly Pacific Gas and Electric
Renewables in the MIT Energy Initiative
Paul D. Sclavounos, MIT
Jefferson W. Tester, MIT
China Electricity Consumption
Richard S. Eckaus and Malcolm O. Asadoorian, MIT
Richard K. Lester, MIT
Estimating Oil Reserves
David Elliott, Alberta Securities Commission
John E. Parsons, MIT
Energy Efficiency
Leon R. Glicksman, MIT
Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University
NOx Regulations
Praveen Amar, NESCAUM
Katherine C. Martin and Paul L. Joskow, MIT
Luncheon and Dinner Speakers
"New Ways of Looking at the Earth" - Christopher N. Hill, MIT
"Bridging the Gap between Technology and Practice" - Rebecca M. Henderson, MIT


Fall 2006

Smart Trading - Time Differentiated NOX Regulations
Katherine C. Martin, MIT
Arnico K. Panday, MIT
Carbon Emissions Trading and National Allocations
A. Denny Ellerman, MIT
Leigh S. Raymond, Purdue University
Carbon Capture Technologies for Electric Generation
Bruce H. Braine, American Electric Power
Howard J. Herzog, MIT
Developing Corporate Strategy in the Face of Uncertain Carbon Regulations
Charles Rossmann, Southern Company
Gunnar Lundberg, Vattenfall
Paul L. Joskow, MIT
Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US
Michael Greenstone, MIT
Ted Gayer, Georgetown University
Hedging Oil and Gas Prices
Leonid Kogan, MIT
John E. Parsons, MIT
Luncheon and Dinner Speakers
"New Developments in Management Education" - Richard Schmalensee, MIT
"Latin America to the Left" - Roberto Rigobon, MIT