UNVEILING THE FUTURE OF ENERGY FRONTIERS
**** CALL FOR PAPERS ****
December 3-5, 2008 Sheraton Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
28th USAEE/IAEE North American Conference
United States Association for Energy Economics International Association for Energy Economics
Louisiana Chapter, USAEE
Submission Deadline for Abstracts (with a short CV): Extended to July 25, 2008.
NORTH AMERICA has new energy frontiers: Ultra-deepwater and unconventional production of oil and gas, evolving global markets for LNG, and a “smarter” continental delivery system for electricity from clean coal, renewable, and nuclear generating systems, with efficiency ever a goal. Plenaries will address progress and challenge; concurrent sessions can amplify economics in implementation. We particularly invite papers on the bullet points below. Other topic ideas will also be considered; those interested in organizing sessions should propose topic and possible speakers to: Mina Dioun, Concurrent Session Chair (p) 512-473-3200, ext. 2549, (e) mina.dioun@lcra.org There will be workshops, public outreach and student recruitment. We’ll ask:
What fresh opportunities exist in the offshore – production, LNG, wind, waves?
What’s happening offshore in the Western Hemisphere – in the Arctic, Cuba, Mexico?
How will continental infrastructure have to be reconfigured to meet future needs?
What’s beyond the hype? (Technical and cost perspectives on emerging technologies)
What are the technical, cost, and political challenges for Low Carbon Power – nuclear, coal, wind, and solar?
Will higher prices drive efficiency improvements, or are explicit policies needed?
How might geopolitics affect all of this?
| OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS ISSUES
- Access and supply
- Unconventional resources
- Incentive taxation issues
- Royalty Regimes
- Estimating and forecasting project costs
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
- Measuring the challenge; developing world issues
- Costs of mitigation technologies and investments
- Cap-and-trade and carbon taxes: winners and losers
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INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
- Conventional & unconventional resources of oil & gas; geopolitics; vulnerabilities
- Refining – capacity, technology
- LNG development: what’s driving the train?
- Pipelines and high deliverability gas storage
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ENERGY EFFICIENCY
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NATURAL GAS DEMAND AND DELIVERY
- Is industrial demand destruction inevitable?
- Is declining use-per-customer a problem?
- LDC infrastructure challenges of the next decade
- Effects of conservation & carbon reg on demand
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ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
- Regulatory, ratemaking & incentive issues
- Ratemaking issues in risk sharing
- Costs trends and forecasts in alternative energy
- RPS development: status, success and challenges
- Coal gasification
- Biofuels – amount, timing, delivery infrastructure
- Agricultural economics: tariffs and biofuels
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DEEPWATER EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION
- Technological trends and costs
- Challenges in infrastructure development
- Environmental performance
- Comparisons of royalty regimes and incentives
- The role of national oil companies
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ARCTIC & CANADIAN ENERGY DEVELOPMENT
- Technical and economic potentials
- Who owns the rights to Arctic development?
- Infrastructure to link remote supply with demand
- Oil sands development: challenges and opportunities
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ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE
- Is there a looming crisis in baseload generation?
- Nuclear power: Regulatory and incentive issues
- Risk sharing in new generation and transmission
- Smart grids and other IT applications
- Electricity market planning
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LABOR REQUIREMENTS FOR ENERGY INDUSTRIES
- The implications of an aging workforce
- Impact of economics, demographics, and societal trends on career choice
- Role of educational institutions
- Wages, benefits and compensation: just a pay issue?
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LEGAL AND REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS
- Siting energy facilities
- Increasing regulatory efficiency
- Managing legal uncertainties
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*Please
include a short CV when submitting your abstract.
Abstracts for papers should be no longer than one to two pages, giving a concise overview of the topic to be covered. Abstracts should comprise of a brief (1) overview, (2) methods, (3) results, (4) conclusions, and (5) references. Please visit http://www.usaee.org/usaee2008/ to download a sample abstract template. NOTE: All abstracts must conform to the format structure outlined in sample abstract template. At least one author from an accepted paper must pay the registration fees and attend the conference to present the paper. The lead author submitting the abstract must provide complete contact details - mailing address, phone, fax, e-mail, etc. Authors will be notified by August 15 of their paper status. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will have until October 16, 2008, to submit their full papers for publication in the conference proceedings. While multiple submissions by individuals or groups of authors are welcome, the abstract selection process will seek to ensure as broad participation as possible: each speaker is to present only one paper in the conference. No author should submit more than one abstract as its single author. If multiple submissions are accepted, then a different co-author will be required to pay the reduced registration fee and present each paper. Otherwise, authors will be contacted and asked to drop one or more paper(s) for presentation.
Abstracts must be submitted online to http://usaee.org/USAEE2008/submissions.aspx Abstracts submitted by email will not be processed. Please use the online abstract submission form.
Students: Submit your paper for consideration of the USAEE Student Paper Awards (cash prizes plus waiver of conference registration fees). Students may also inquire about our scholarships for conference attendance. Visit http://www.usaee.org/USAEE2008/paperawards.html for full details.
Travel Documents: All international delegates to the 28th USAEE/IAEE North American Conference are urged to contact their respective consulate, embassy or travel agent regarding the necessity of obtaining a visa for entry into the U.S. If you need a letter of invitation to attend the conference, contact USAEE with an email request to usaee@usaee.org The Conference strongly suggests that you allow plenty of time for processing these documents.
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