WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3

IAEE COUNCIL MEETING
8:30 am - 12:00 noon • Bayside C Room - 4th Floor Invitation Only

USAEE/IAEE COUNCIL LUNCH
12:00 - 1:00 pm • Gallier A/B Room - 4th Floor Invitation Only

USAEE COUNCIL MEETING
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm • Bayside C Room - 4th Floor

REGISTRATION
3:00 pm – 5:30 pm • Edgewood A/B Room - 4th Floor

OPENING RECEPTION
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm • Gallery Room - Lobby Level

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4

REGISTRATION
7:00 am – 6:30 pm • Edgewood A/B Room - 4th Floor

PRESS ROOM
7:00 am - 5:30 pm • Crescent Room - 4th Floor

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7:00 am – 7:50 am • Lagniappe Room - 2nd Floor
Sponsored By: ConocoPhillips

STUDENT BREAKFAST MEETING
7:00 am – 7:50 am • Rhythms Ballroom III - 2nd Floor
Sponsored By: Chevron Corporation

SAN FRANCISCO PLANNING MEETING
7:00 am – 7:50 am • Bayside C Room - 4th Floor

PRESIDERS' HUDDLE
7:40 am - 7:50 am • Crescent Room - 4th Floor

WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
8:00 am – 8:15 am • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor

Wumi Iledare
Professor & Dir Energy Info Div, LSU Center for Energy Studies

Carlo Andrea Bollino
President, GSE

David E. Dismukes
Professor and Assc Exe Dir, Louisiana State University

Kristen Strellec
Economist, Minerals Management Service


KEYNOTE SPEAKER
8:15 am - 9:00 am • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor

Wumi Iledare (Presiding)
Profesor & Dir Energy Info Div, LSU Center for Energy Studies

Richard Fisher (Keynote Speaker)
President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas


PLENARY SESSION: Gulf Coast Energy Renaissance - Reviving Production, Expanding Infrastructure
9:00 am - 10:00am • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor

David E. Dismukes (Presiding)
Professor and Assoc Exec Dir, Louisiana State University
"Overview of the Gulf Coast Investment Renaissance"

Patricia A. Outtrim
Vice President, Governmental & Regulatory Affairs, Cheniere Energy, Inc.
"Gulf Coast LNG Regasification Development"

Fred Palmer
Manager of Communications and Govt Relations, Shell Oil Company
"Deepwater Exploration, Development and Production - A Better Understanding?"

This panel will focus on recent energy infrastructure developments along the Gulf Coast across major sectors.

COFFEE BREAK
10:00 am – 10:30 am • Lagniappe Room - 2nd Floor
Sponsored By: Strategic Energy and Economic Research

DUAL PLENARY SESSION: Global Warming and Carbon Management - Timing, Costs, Priorities
10:30 am – 12:00 noon • Bayside A & B Room - 4th Floor

Ben Schlesinger (Presiding)
President , Benjamin Schlesinger & Assoc. Inc.

Robert Cornelius
Senior Vice President of Operations, Denbury Resources Inc

Steven L. Bryant
Associate Professor of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas at Austin

Ben Schlesinger
President, Benjamin Schlesinger & Asoc. Inc.

This panel will review the energy consequences and economics of carbon capture and sequestration in the Gulf Coast and southwest regions, including expanded opportunities for crude oil recovery (EOR), carbon storage and transportation, asset creation, and capital investment requirements and risks.

DUAL PLENARY SESSION: Ratcheting Down Demand - Ratcheting Up Renewables
10:30 am - 12:00 noon • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor

Charles Greer Rossmann (Presiding)
Senior Research Economist, Southern Company

Tom Darden III
Executive Director, Make It Right Foundation

Hermann Josef Wagner
Chair Energiesysteme and Energiewirts, University of Bochum

Brandi Colander
Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council

This panel will focus on energy reduction strategies in buildings and industry, with examples drawn from New Orleans recovery efforts; the panel will also cover opportunities and economic/operating issues relating to the rising role of wind and solar electricity generation in the power grid and will likewise deal with concerns over the potential biofuels "train wreck."

AWARDS LUNCHEON
12:00 - 2:00pm • Rhythms Ballroom
Sponsored By: Aramco Services Co.


Shirley Neff (Presiding)
President & CEO, Assn of Oil PipeLines

John P. Weyant (Keynote Speaker)
Professor, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
"The State of the Art of Energy Modeling: Past, Present and Future"

Welcome by Dane Revette, Energy Director, Louisiana Department of Economic Development.

CONCURRENT SESSIONS: 1 TO 7
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
1. Oil and Gas Resource Development Outlook
Mine Yucel Presiding

Tax Treatment and the Extensive Margin
Timothy Fitzgerald
Strategies of Investment in the Canadian Oil Sands Under Price Uncertainty: A Dynamic Programming Approach
Déborah Bouchonneau, Frédéric Lantz
Oil Refining Planning Under Price and Demand Uncertainties: Case of Algeria
Abderrezak Benyoucef
Oil Market Volatility: An Econometric Analysis of the Interactions Between the Crude Oil Market, The Gas Oil and The Gasoline Markets
Frederic Lantz, Emmanuel Hache, Christos Ioannidis
Jump Processes in the Market for Crude Oil
Neil Wilmot, Charles Mason

2. Global Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Market
Mary Barcella Presiding

The Smart Grid Business Case
John Caldwell
How U.S. Government Investment in Smart Grid Technologies Compares to the Estimated Spending Needed for a Nationwide Grid
Melissa Chan, Daniel Handal, David Feliciano, Thomas Murray, Joseph Paladino
New Developments in the Use of Valuation to Support Real Asset Decisions with a CO2 Management Opportunity as an Example
David Laughton
A Multiregional Macroeconomic Framework for Analyzing Energy Policies
Treyz Frederick, Scott Nystrom, Zilin Cui
How to Regulate a Market-Driven Rollout of Smart Meters? A Multi-Sided Market Economics Perspective
Jan Schaechtele, Jens Uhlenbrock

3. Energy Modeling in a Carbon-Constrained Economy
Peter Hartley Presiding

Risk Premia in Electricity Wholesale Spot Markets – Empirical Evidence from Germany
Matthäus Pietz
Ownership Unbundling, Investments and Consumer Prices - A Panel Data Analysis
Stephan Schmitt, Margarethe Rammerstorfer
Capacity Market Design to Integrate Renewable Energy
Xiaoyue Jiang, Geoffrey Parker, Ekundayo Shittu
Investment in Alternative Energy Resources for Fuel Production: Towards a "Green" or "Black" Resource Emergence?
Déborah Bouchonneau, Elodie Le Cadre
Economic Feasibility and Investment Decisions of Coal and Biomass to Liquids
Oleg Kucher, Jerald Fletcher

4. Global Climate Change Policy Discussion
Parviz Adib Presiding

Toward a New National Energy Policy: Assessing the Options
Margaret Walls, Alan Krupnick
Energy, Greenhouse Gas and Economic Implications of Natural Gas Trucks
Alan Krupnick
Abundant Shale Gas Resources: Implications for U.S. Natural Gas Markets and Policy
Alan Krupnick, Stephen Brown
Modeling Policies to Promote Renewable and Low Carbon Sources of Electricity
Karen Palmer, Richard Sweeney, Maura Allaire
Carbon Taxes, Emissions Caps or Something Else? Balancing Price Certainty and Environmental Integrity in Regulatory Approaches to Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Bryan Mignone

5. Transportation Sector: Fuel Demand and Standard
Christopher Jablonowski Presiding

Analysis of Policies for the Development of New Renewable Energy Sources in Brazil
Ricardo Baitelo, Luiz Cláudio Galvão, Miguel Edgar Udaeta, Marcelo Furtado, Eliane Aparecida Fadigas
What is Energy Security? Do We Really Mean Energy Vulnerability?
Mark Hutson, Fred Joutz, Arun Malik, Robert Trost
Renewable Energy Sources, Technology Mix, and Competition in Liberalized Electricity Market: The Case of Spain
Carlos Gutiérrez-Hita, Aitor Ciarreta, Nikolaos Georgantzís
The Biomass Real Potential to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Life-Cycle Analysis
Bruna Correia, Tiago Correia, Arnaldo Walter
Zonal Supply Curve Estimation With Fuzzy Marginal Fuel in Electricity Markets
Mostafa Sahraei-Ardakani, Seth Blumsack, Andrew Kleit

6. Restructured Electricity Markets Discussion
Mario S. Depillis Presiding

The Future of Unconventional Gas: Legal, Policy and Environmental Challenges to the Development of North American Shale Gas
Susan Sakmar
Productivity Growth in Electric Energy Commercialization in Colombia. A Bootstrap Approach
Rodrigo Taborda, Julieth Santamaria
The Merit Order Effect of Wind Generation in the Irish Electricity Market
Amy O'Mahoney, Eleanor Denny
Equilibrium Forward Gas Prices with Storage
Burcu Cigerli
Did Residential Rates Fall After Retail Competition? A Dynamic Panel Analysis
Adam Swadley, Mine Yucel

7. Dennis J. O'Brien USAEE/IAEE Best Student Paper Award Competition
    Supported by: Southern Company
    

Jim Smith Presiding

How Effective is U.S. Technology Policy on Clean Energy?
Julia Frayer, Yifei Zhang
Cost-Competitive CO2 Mitigation with Combined Heat and Power Systems in Calgary
Nicolas Choquette-Levy, Rahul Nakhasi, Geoff Holmes, Marc Beaudin
The Impact of State-Level Convenience and Monetary Incentives for Hybrid Electric Vehicles on Demand
Alison Riggieri
Do U.S. Households Favor High Fuel Economy Vehicles When Gasoline Prices Increase? A Discrete Choice Analysis
Karplus Valerie
Analysis of U.S. Renewable Fuels Policies Using Modified Markal and Gtap-Bio Models
Kemal Sarica, Wallace Tyner

COFFEE BREAK
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm • Lagniappe Room - 2nd Floor
Sponsored By: Exelon

CONCURRENT SESSIONS: 8 TO 14
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
8. Non-Conventional Fossil Fuel Economics and Risks
Jean-Phillipe Cueille Presiding

Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes,Taking into Account Possible Other Future Climate Measures
Florian Habermacher, Gebhard Kirchgässner
Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth: A Cost Function Approach
Jihyo Kim, Eunnyeong Heo
Agent-Based Modelling of the Linked Energy, Economic, and Cimate System for Scenario Generation and Robust Decision-Making
Peng Wang, Michael Gerst, Andrea Roventini, Richard Howarth, Giovanni Dosi, Mark Borsuk
Economics of Geological Sequestration Options for the Shenhua Coal Liquefaction Plant
Hui Su, Jerald Fletcher
A More Diversified U.S. Climate Policy than Just Carbon Dioxide Reduction
James Plummer

9. Future Electric Generation Capacity Expansion
Einar Hope Presiding

Oil Price Fluctuations and Macroeconomic Performances in Asian and Oceanic Economies
Youngho Chang, Kamika Jha, Katrina Fernandez, Fatein Jam'an
Energy Ladders of Supply and Demand
Paul Burke
Clearing the Air: Cap-and-Trade vs. Carbon Tax
Lori Schell
Pollution Abatement with Intermittent Sources of Energy
Hagen Schwerin
Oil and the Macroeconomy of Kazakhstan
Ferhat Bilgin, Fred Joutz

10. Global Crude Oil Price, Investment, and Innovation
Kim Coffman Presiding

Grid Expansion when the Frequency is Balanced
Denes Kucsera, Engelbert Dockner, Margarethe Rammerstorfer
A Hybrid Approach to Financing Transmission Expansion
Richard Benjamin
International Indexes for Energy Security Risk
Daniel Klein, Stephen Eule, Christopher Russell
A Regulatory Innovation Incentive for Alternative Grid Structure Design Options
Natalie Prüggler, Christoph Bremberger
Index of U.S. Energy Security Risk: 2011 Edition
Stephen Eule, Daniel Klein

11. CO2 Emission and Future of Carbon Sequestration
Jay Zarnikau Presiding

Heterogeneity in the Rebound: a Quantile-Regression Approach
Manuel Frondel, Nolan Ritter, Colin Vance
An Indirect Examination of the Porter Hypothesis via Consumer Behaviour
David Ryan, Junaid Jahangir
Neural Networks to Model Energy Commodity Price Dynamics
Massimo Panella, Francesco Barcellona, Valentina Santucci, Rita D'Ecclesia

12. Energy Security & Geopolitics of Fossil Fuels
Wumi Iledare Presiding

Renewable Fuels in Alberta: Policy Levers and Project Finance
Andrew Leach, Joseph Doucet, Trevor Nickel
Risk Management in the Energy Markets and Value-at-Risk Modelling: a Hybrid Approach
Kostas Andriosopoulos, Nikos Nomikos
Alternative Liquid Fuels Simulation Model (AltSim)
Thomas Drennen, Ryan Williams, Arnold Baker
Innovation in Biofuels: Assessement of Challenges Over their Life-Cycle
Pierre-Olivier Pineau, Jose Vitor Bomtempo, Elodie Palluet
Measuring Uncertainties in Energy Regulation caused by Governmental Regulation: The Role of Information Theory
Silvia Serrano

13. Generation and Transmission Investment Under Uncertainty
Jonathan Story Presiding

Negative Wholesale Power Prices: Why They Occur and What to Do about Them
Maria Woodman
The Impact of Fiscal Policies on Road Passenger Transport Energy Demand in OECD Countries
Amela Ajanovic, Reinhard Haas
Does a Carbon Tax on Fossil Fuels Promote Biofuels?
Govinda Timilsina, Stefan Csordás, Simon Mevel
The Promise of the Smart Grid for the Electricity Sector
Fereidoon Sioshansi
Shifting Electricity Demand with Smart Home Technologies
Alexandra-Gwyn Paetz, Birger Becker, Wolf Fichtner, Hartmut Schmeck

14. Clean Coal Technologies
Carol Dahl Presiding

Storing Carbon Dioxide in Saline Formations: Analyzing Extracted Water Treatment and Use for Power Plant Cooling
Peter Kobos, Jesse Roach, Geoff Klise, Jim Krumhansl, Thomas Dewers, Jason Heath, Brian Dwyer, David Borns, Andrea McNemar
Enhanced Energy Security with Major GHG Emission Reductions: Coal/Biomass to Liquids
Thomas Tarka, Balash Peter, Kenneth Kern, John Wimer, Jeffrey Hoffmann, Maria Vargas, David Gray, Charles White
Improving the Economic Viability of IGCC Power Plants Using Syngas Storage and Fuel-Switching
Stratford Douglas, Leslie Dunn
A Continental Renewable Portfolio Standard: A Better Way?
Mitchell Rothman

USAEE CHAPTER LEADERSHIP MEETING
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm • Estherwood Room - 4th Floor

CONFERENCE RECEPTION
6:00 pm - 6:45 pm • Rhythms Ballroom Foyer - 2nd Floor
Sponsored By: GSE SpA

DINNER
6:45 pm - 9:30 pm • Rhythms Ballroom - 2nd Floor
Sponsored By: BP International Ltd.


David E. Dismukes (Presiding)
Professor and Assoc Exec Dir, Louisiana State University

Brent W. Dorsey
Director, Corporate Environmental Programs, Entergy Corp.
"The Perfect Storm"

James Smith, Professor of Finance, Southern Methodist University, presenting Student Best Paper Awards

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5

REGISTRATION
7:00 am - 6:30 pm • Edgewood A/B Room - 4th Floor

PRESS ROOM
7:00 am - 5:30 pm • Crescent Room - 4th Floor

2010 CALGARY PLANNING MEETING
7:30 am - 8:20 am • Gallier A/B Rooms - 4th Floor

PRESIDERS' HUDDLE
8:10am - 8:20 am • Crescent Room - 4th Floor

CONCURRENT SESSIONS: 15 TO 21
8:30 am - 10:00 am
15. Economics of Biofuels Development
David Ryan Presiding

Carbon Capture and Storage Regulation as a Climate Change Mitigation Strategy: Legal Issues on Liability
Viviane Romeiro, Virginia Parente
Oil Price Shocks and Macroeconomy: Precautionary Demand in Crude Oil Market
Islam Rizvanoghlu
Energy and Economic Development: An Assessment by Studying the Causality Between Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in ECOWAS
Ouedraogo Nadia
The Role of CCS in Meeting a CES
Christopher Nichols, Peter Balash, Nadeja Victor
Public Perceptions of Carbon Capture and Storage: Survey Evidence from Indiana
David Warren, Sanya Carley, John Graham, Rachel Krause, John Rupp

16. LNG Shipping, Import Terminal, and Developing Issues
Doug Reynolds Presiding

Impacts of Wealth Distribution on Energy Consuption in Nigeria: A Case of Selected Households in Gombe State
Maryam Bello
Energy Storage and its Ability to Add Stability to Intermittent Generation and Reduce Distribution Network Costs
Craig Froome, Liam Wagner
Impact Analysis of Innovative Business Models for Future Smart Grid and DG/RES Developments
Wolfgang Prüggler
Sustainable Growth with Renewable and Fossil Fuels Energy Sources
Carlo Andrea Bollino, Silvia Micheli

17. Electricity Market and Energy System Modeling
Georg Erdmann Presiding

State-Level Energy Consumption, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, and Economic Growth
Wesley Burnett, John Bergstrom, Jeffrey Dorfman
Estimating Cost Function Using Observed Bid Data in Wholesale Electricity Italian Market
Carlo A. Bollino, Paolo Polinori
Development and Evaluation of Feebate Policies for California’s Effort to Limit Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Light-Duty Vehicles
David Bunch, David Greene, Changzheng Liu, Tim Lipman
A Research on Predicting Amount of Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions of the Urban and Rural Population in China
Hong Mi, Pengyuan Ma, Wei Zhou

18. Impact of Environmental Regulation on Demand for Electricity
Stephanie Battles Presiding

World Oil Demand’s Shift Toward Faster Growing and Less Price-Responsive Products and Regions
Dermot Gately, Joyce Dargay
Electricity Market Restructuring and Investment in Nuclear Power Generation: Evidence from Power Uprates in U.S. Nuclear Industry
Chen-Hao Tsai
Options for Transforming Canada's Energy Use
Matthew Hansen, Abha Bhargava, Tara Smolak
Welfare Impacts of Single-Provider Residential-Electricity-Service Price Discrimination
Daniel Hamblin

19. Wind Power as a Utility Level Source of Energy
Mina Dioun Presiding

Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Calgary Through Vehicle Technologies
Daniel Burt, Jessica Abella, Amanda Boyd, Masoud Fard, Janne Kettunen
The Economics of the South Stream Pipeline in the Context of Russo-Ukrainian Gas Bargaining
Chi-Kong Chyong
Water Intensity of Electricity from Geothermal Resources
Gouri Mishra, William Glassley, Sonia Yeh
The Use of Geothermal Energy in U.S. Military Operations: Challenges and Potential
Michael Canes
Changes in the Operational Efficiency of National Oil Companies
Peter Hartley, Kenneth Medlock

20. Alternative Energy Resources: Solar and Hydrogen
Harold "Skip" York Presiding

Economic Costs of Wind Integration in Heavily Thermally Dependent Grids
Amy Sopinka
Does an Increase in the Elderly Population Cause a Decrease in CO2 Emissions from Road Transportation? A Positive Analysis Using the Environmental Kuznets Curve
Akira Okada
Understanding Residential Energy Efficiency Investments
Will Gans
Stochastic Modeling of Wind Power Production
Dmitry Kurochkin, Anjali Sheffrin

21. Economics of Energy Efficiency and Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Gail Mosey Presiding

An Analysis of Risk and Rate of Return to International Oil Companies from Iran's Buy-Back Service Contracts: The Case of Soroosh and Nowrooz
Abbas Ghandi, C Y Cynthia Lin
Beyond Commodity Markets - Emerging Issues in Canadian Industrial Energy Use
Ken Newel
A Comparative Study of Domestic and Foreign E&P Investment Performance of Selected Firms in the United States, 1977-2008
Omowumi Iledare

COFFEE BREAK
10:00 am - 10:30 am • Lagniappe Room - 2nd Floor
Sponsored By: Compass Lexecon

PLENARY SESSION: Challenges and Plans for Hydrocarbon Extraction from the Gulf
10:30 am - 12:00 noon • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor

Joseph M. Dukert (Presiding)
Energy Analyst

Eduardo González-Pier
Deputy Director for Economic Planning, PEMEX

John C. Felmy
Chief Economist, American Petroleum Institute

Brian C. Reinsborough
President, Nexen Petroleum U.S.A. Inc.

Top-level representatives from each of North America's three countries will probe policy and economic directions for energy recovery in the Gulf Coast region, including potential opportunities and risks, timing, capital investment requirements, and economic and geopolitical policy issues.

AWARDS LUNCH
12:00 - 2:00 pm • Rhythms Ballroom
Sponsored By: Shell Oil Company and Shell Exploration and Production Company


Wumi Iledare (Presiding)
Professor & Dir Energy Info Div, LSU Center for Energy Studies

C. Stephen Allred (Keynote Speaker)
Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals, U.S. Department of the Interior
"Promoting Responsible Energy Resource Management on Federal Lands"

Outstanding Contributions to the IAEE Award presented to Richard Gordon

The Energy Journal Campbell Watkins Best Paper Award presented to A. Denny Ellerman, MIT and Juan-Pablo Montero, Universidad Catolica de Chile

CONCURRENT SESSIONS: 22 TO 28
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
22. Empirical Analysis of Different Electric Generation Technologies
Ingmar Sterzing Presiding

Crude Oil Hedgers and their Effect on Prices and Speculators
Ronald Ripple
Climate Policy Uncertainty and Investment Behavior: Evidence From Small Hydropower Plants
Ane Marte Heggedal, Stein-Erik Fleten, Kristin Linnerud
Petroleum Industry Restructuring in Nigeria: A Simulation Analysis of its Impact on Deepwater E&P Project Economics & Take Statistics
Omowunmi Iledare
Global Energy Model – Updating of the GEM-DYN
Sergey Filippov, Vladislav Savin, Mikhail Beresentsev, Oleg Marchenko, Sergey Solomin, Alexander Lebedev, Vladislav Tropanets
Modeing Household Energy Consumption and Adoption of Energy-Efficient Technology
Jia Li

23. Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emission
Seth Blumsack Presiding

Efficient but Sufficient Support of all RES Technologies in Times of Volatile Raw Energy Prices
Christian Panzer, Gustav Resch, Ric Hoefnagels, Martin Junginger
National Low Carbon Fuel Standard: Tradable Credits System Design and Cost Savings
Jonathan Rubin, Paul Leiby
Examining the Environmental Impact of European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) - An Input Output Approach
Usman Ali Lawan

24. Climate Uncertainty & Hedging Energy Investment
Peter Nance Presiding

Energy Storage on the Grid: Informing Future Development
Eric Hittinger, Jay Whitacre, Jay Apt
Impact of Carbon Policy on Industry Technology Adoption in a Stochastic Energy Model
Olga Livingston, Joseph Roop, Brian Boyd
Is there a Rationale for Government Support to low Carbon Technologies Beyond a General Tax or Cap-and-Trade-Regime?
Christoph Weber, Patrick Himmes
Understanding the Formation and Influence of Complementary Innovations in Large Energy Technology Systems: The Case of Urban Energy Storage in Ontario’s Electricity System
Jennifer Hiscock, Philip Walsh

25. Electricity Market Analysis
Lars Bergman Presiding

Demand Side Management: New Perspectives For a New Era
Sanya Carley
Reducing CO2 Emissions and Oil Dependence While Using Coal: MARKAL Scenarios for the United States
Peter Balash, Christopher Nichols, Gavin Pickenpaugh, Nadejda Victor
Simulation of the GHG Abatement Potentials in the U.S. Building Sector by 2050
Michael Stadler, Nicholas DeForest, Chris Marnay, Florence Bonnet, Judy Lai, Trucy Phan
The Nature of Supply Bidding in Electricity Markets
Alina Mackenthun
Electricity Spot Prices: Integration, Congestion and Volatility
Melanie Houllier

26. Energy Demand and Supply Modeling
Andrea Bollino Presiding

The Rebound Effect: An Analysis of the Empirical Data for Lighting
Jeffrey Tsao, Paul Waide, Harry Saunders
Distributed Generation Adoption and Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Mark Sanford, Michael Leifman
Long Term Optimization of BC-Alberta Interconnected Energy System: Hydro-Wind Combined Case Study
Behdad Kiani, Andrew Rowe, Peter Wild, Lawrence Pitt, Tom Pedersen

27. Energy Investment and Risk
Greg Adams Presiding

Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Models: How to Combine Them to Evaluate the Cost of Mid-term CO2 Emission Reduction?
Yutaka Nagata
Supplying Synthetic Crude Oil from Canadian Oil Sands: A Comparative Study of the Costs and CO2 Emissions of Mining and in-situ Recovery
Aurélie Méjean
Assessing the Role of Cogeneration for Carbon Management of Oil Sands Operations in Alberta
Ganesh Doluweera, Sarah Jordaan, Joule Bergerson, Michal Moore
Will Fuel Economy Standards for Heavy-Duty Vehicles Be Effective?
Winston Harrington, Alan Krupnick

28. Impact of Energy and Environmental Policy on Economy
Milton Holloway Presiding

OPEC & the Looming Oil Crisis
Mamdouh Salameh
Canadian Oil Production Over the 2020 Horizon: Insights from the New TIMES-Canada Energy Model
Kathleen Vaillancourt, Yuri Alcocer, Olivier Bahn, Amit Kanudia, Maryse Labriet, Richard Loulou, Jean-Philippe Waaub
Mode Selection of Carbon Emissions and Policy Simulation in China--Based on a Possibility-Satisfiability Degree Analysis of Carbon Emissions for the Period 2010-2050
Mi Hong, Zhou Wei, Ma Pengyuan
OPEC: Oil's Political Economy Conundrum
Christopher Elsner

COFFEE BREAK
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm • Lagniappe Room - 2nd Floor
Sponsored By: American Petroleum Institute

PLENARY SESSION: Toward Rational Energy Policies for 2009
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor

David H. Knapp (Presiding)
Senior Editor, Energy Intelligence Group

Shirley Neff
President & CEO, Assn of Oil PipeLines

John W. Jimison
Counsel, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives

James L. Sweeney
Director Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency, Stanford University

With the national elections a month behind us, this high-level panel will speak to energy and economic policies that will be critically needed during the next four years.

USAEE SENIOR FELLOW AWARDS AND USAEE ANNUAL GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
5:30 pm - 6:15 pm • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor

Shirley Neff (Presiding)
President & CEO, Assn of Oil PipeLines

Wumi Iledare (Presiding)
Professor and Director Energy Info Div, LSU Center for Energy Studies

USAEE Senior Fellow Awards presented to Howard Gruenspecht, Stephen P.A. Brown, David Nissen and Alex Farrell (posthumous)

SPECIAL CONFERENCE RECEPTION AT THE CABILDO
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm • Louisiana State Museum, Jackson Square
Sponsored By: Canadian Consulate General, Dallas and Canadian Consulate, Houston