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 |
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 Carlo Andrea Bollino David E. Dismukes Kristen Strellec |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER 8:15 am - 9:00 am • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor Wumi Iledare (Presiding) Richard Fisher (Keynote Speaker) |
PLENARY SESSION: Gulf Coast Energy Renaissance - Reviving Production, Expanding Infrastructure 9:00 am - 10:00am • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor David E. Dismukes (Presiding) Patricia A. Outtrim Fred Palmer |
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) Robert Cornelius Steven L. Bryant Ben Schlesinger |
DUAL PLENARY SESSION: Ratcheting Down Demand - Ratcheting Up Renewables 10:30 am - 12:00 noon • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor Charles Greer Rossmann (Presiding) Tom Darden III Hermann Josef Wagner Brandi Colander |
AWARDS LUNCHEON 12:00 - 2:00pm • Rhythms Ballroom Sponsored By: Aramco Services Co. Shirley Neff (Presiding) John P. Weyant (Keynote Speaker) |
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) Brent W. Dorsey |
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) Eduardo González-Pier John C. Felmy Brian C. Reinsborough |
AWARDS LUNCH 12:00 - 2:00 pm • Rhythms Ballroom Sponsored By: Shell Oil Company and Shell Exploration and Production Company Wumi Iledare (Presiding) C. Stephen Allred (Keynote Speaker) 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) Shirley Neff John W. Jimison James L. Sweeney |
USAEE SENIOR FELLOW AWARDS AND USAEE ANNUAL GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm • Waterbury Room - 2nd Floor Shirley Neff (Presiding) Wumi Iledare (Presiding) |
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 |