SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Tour Lady Bird Lake Trail Hiking 8:30am - 10:30am This tour is hiking alongside Lady Bird Lake which is one of the most popular places for scenic hiking and biking. The group will leave Sheraton Lobby at 8:30am and will return around 10:30am. This tour will require about 4 miles of walking; comfortable walking shoes are recommended. A few members of the Central Texas Association for Energy Economics Chapter will be your tour guides. Click here for more details.

USAEE Council Meeting 8:30am - 12:00n • Creekside I Room

USAEE Council Lunch (By Invitation) 12:00 - 1:00pm • Creekside II Room Sponsored By: Texas Gas Service

Registration 12:00 - 7:00pm • Outside Bickler Room

Tour Pecan Street's Pike Power Commercialization Lab & Smart Grid Demonstration Project at Mueller Community 1:00pm - 3:30pm In this tour we will visit the Lab's Commercialization and Education Center where home and office equipment will be showcased. The Lab also offers testing capabilities to support a wide range of consumer solutions testing scenarios. Furthermore, we will visit the Testing Center where we can observe battery, fuel cell, automotive, and metering technologies. Click here for more details.

Opening Reception/Networking Dinner/Student Happy Hour 4:15pm - 8:30pm • Oasis Restaurant Arrive early in Austin and join us to watch the sunset over beautiful Lake Travis. The Opening Reception, Networking Dinners and Student Happy Hour will all take place at the Oasis Restaurant: a venue and an event you don't want to miss. Click here for more details.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Registration 7:00am - 7:00pm • Outside Bickler Room

Continental Breakfast 7:30am - 8:30am • Capitol Ballroom Foyer Sponsored By: ConocoPhillips

Student Breakfast Meeting 7:30am - 8:30am • Creekside I & II Room Sponsored By: Chevron

Presider's Huddle 8:10am - 8:25am • Capitol Ballroom E

Welcome and Introduction 8:30am - 9:00am • Capitol Ballroom A-D

Opening Plenary Session: Putting the "Sustainable" in Sustainable Energy Future 9:00am - 10:30am • Capitol Ballroom A-D This session will feature a roundtable discussion introducing many of the issues that will be addressed in more detail throughout the conference. Some of the questions panelists will discuss include whether "sustainability" should be seen as as an objective -- something to be pursued in its own right -- or as a constraint or set of constraints on how far we attempt to pursue some other objectives. Does energy sustainability refer to affordability, amelioration of energy poverty, environmental acceptability, extent of energy security, political feasibility, social acceptability or all or only some of the above? More generally, what are some of the key trade-offs in energy policy both domestically and internationally, and how should we choose between them? Peter R. Hartley (Presiding) Professor & Baker Institute Fellow, Rice University Evan Hillebrand Professor Patterson School of Diplomacy, University of Kentucky View Presentation Jaime Williams President - Energy Commission, Private Sector Coordination Council (CCE) View Presentation Rachid Bencherif Senior Policy Analyst and Head of the Grants Unit, OPEC Fund for International Development Karen Palmer Research Director and Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future View Presentation

Coffee Break 10:30am - 11:00am • Capitol Ballroom Foyer

Concurrent Sessions 1 - 9 11:00am - 12:30pm

Awards Luncheon 12:30pm - 2:30pm • Capitol Ballroom E-H Sponsored By: AOL Energy IAEE Outstanding Contributions to the Profession Award presented to Daniel Yergin Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian (Keynote Speaker) Founding Director, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University "The Arab Awakening and Implications for United States Policy"

Dual Plenary Session: Future Outlook for Oil & Gas Production 2:30pm - 4:00pm • Capitol Ballroom A-C Topics addressed will include long range oil and natural gas supply outlooks, the ranges of uncertainty around energy projections and the potential for unconventional oil and gas resources and their impact on global market balances. Marianne S. Kah (Presiding) Chief Economist, ConocoPhillips Mark Finley GM Global Energy Markets, BP View Presentation R. Dean Foreman Chief Economist, Talisman Energy View Presentation Todd Onderdonk Senior Energy Advisor, Corporate Strategic Planning, ExxonMobil Corporation View Presentation

Dual Plenary Session: Electricity Market Design 2:30pm - 4:00pm • Capitol Ballroom D This dual plenary session will discuss and debate the highlights and lowlights in the deployment of clean energy in power markets around the world with a particular focus on market design. Pat Wood III (Presiding) Principal, Wood3 Resources Lars Bergman President and Professor, Stockholm School of Economics View Presentation Ross Baldick Professor, University of Texas at Austin View Presentation William W. Hogan Professor Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University View Presentation

Coffee Break 4:00pm 4:30pm • Capitol Ballroom Foyer

Concurrent Sessions 10 - 18 4:30pm - 6:00pm

USAEE Chapter Leadership Meeting 5:00pm - 6:00pm • Outside Bickler Room

Special Plenary Session: Quest - The Future of Energy 6:00pm - 6:30pm • Capitol Ballroom D Peter R. Hartley (Presiding) Professor & Baker Institute Fellow, Rice University Daniel Yergin (Keynote Speaker) Vice Chairman of IHS and Founder, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates

Student Poster Session and Networking Reception 6:30pm - 8:00pm • Capitol Ballroom E-H 1. Investigating the Economic Viability of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) Ahmed Abdulla Inês L Azevedo Granger Morgan Carnegie Mellon University View Abstract | View Poster 2. Wind Turbine Upgrades in Denmark: Timing Decisions and the Impact of Government Policies Jonathan A Cook C.-Y. Cynthia Lin University of California, Davis View Extended Abstract | View Poster 3. Location-Allocation Modeling Approach for Waste-Based Bioenergy Marcello Graziano Natalia Vorotyntseva University of Connecticut View Abstract | View Poster 4. Incentives and Manipulations of CBL in Demand Response in PJM Territory Xu Chen Andrew N Kleit Penn State University View Extended Abstract | View Poster 5. Direct and Indirect Rebound Effects for U.S. Households with Input-Output Analysis Brinda A Thomas Carnegie Mellon View Extended Abstract | View Poster 6. Exploring the Modeling Implications of Alternative Learning-by-Doing Specifications Marie Tamba PhD Candidate, Economics Department, University of Strathclyde View Extended Abstract | View Poster 7. Trends of the Net Energy of Petroleum Products in Different Countries Using Energy Intensity Ratios John P Maxwell Carey W King University of Texas at Austin View Abstract | View Poster 8. The Effects of Shale Gas Development on The U.S. Energy Supply Yang Yang Tufts University View Extended Abstract | View Poster 9. Iranian Oil Embargo: a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model-based Analysis Jalal Dehnavi Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and University of Vienna Hossein Tavakolian University of Tehran, Iran View Extended Abstract | View Poster 10. Modeling Primary Energy Consumption under Model Uncertainty Zsuzsanna Csereklyei Stefan Humer Vienna University of Economics and Business View Extended Abstract | View Poster | View Paper 11. Impacts of Wind Resources and Environmental Regulation to Future Generation Portfolio and its Capacity Factor in ERCOT Joo Hyun Jin Ross Baldick University of Texas at Austin View Extended Abstract | View Poster | View Paper 12. The Effects of North American Shale Gas on World Natural Gas Markets Burcu Cigerli Rice University View Abstract | View Poster 13. Integrating Remote Wind Resources: The Role of Energy Storage Julian Lamy Carnegie Mellon University View Abstract | View Poster

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