On Friday, June 14, 2019 EPP PhD student and CEDM affiliate Peter Tschofen spoke at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Sustainability and Tourism (BMNT), which is responsible for, “key quality-of-life issues and for questions which are essential in creating a livable future for our children.” Tschofen visited the Ministry to speak about his recently published […]
Date: 9 September 2019Time: 12:00pmLocation: Baker Hall 129, Conference Room Speaker: Dr. Jud VirdenTopic: Is your grid ready? The convergence of renewables, energy storage, and electric vehicles! Abstract: The grid of the future will be expected to be reliable and resilient while delivering affordable electricity to all citizens. There are several important trends that may dramatically […]
Date: 1 March 2019 Time: 12:00pm Location: Baker Hall 129, Conference Room Speaker: Teevrat Garg Topic: The Local Environmental Costs and Economic Benefits of India’s Coal-Fired Power Plants Abstract: Developing countries characterized by increasing electricity demand face a dilemma: fossil-fuel fired electricity production is cheap and reliable yet has substantial environmental consequences. This paper uses […]
Cornelius, A.; Bandyopadhyay, R.; Patino-Echeverri, D., Assessing environmental, economic, and reliability impacts of flexible ramp products in MISO’s electricity market. Renew. Sust. Energ. Rev. 2018, 81, 2291-2298. Davis, S. D.; Lewis, N. S.; Shaner, M.; Aggarwal, S.; Arent, D.; Azevedo, I. L.; Benson, S. M.; Bradley, T.; Brouwer, K., Chiang, Y-M.; Clack, C. T. M.; Choen, A.; Doig, S.; Edmonds, […]
Date: 4/19/16 Time: 10:30am Location: Wean Hall 3701 Conference Room Speaker: Tony Roulstone Topic: Engineering factors that drive SMR economics Seminar Announcement Abstract: The United Kingdom is considering whether to build a series of SMRs after the current 16 GW large reactor program to increase the nuclear share of electricity and cut carbon emissions. While SMRs may be easier […]
Date: 4/1/16 Time: 12:00pm Location: 340 Tepper – Grand Room Speaker: Richard Alley Topic: Slip Slidin’ Away: Ice Sheets and Sea-Level Rise Seminar Announcement Abstract: Warming melts ice, and melting of ice that is not floating contributes to sea level rise. Sea level now is rising because glaciers in the mountains are melting, the ocean is expanding […]
Date: 2/22/16 Time: 12:00pm Location: Wean Hall 3701 Conference Room Speaker: Elaine Ulrich Topic: Spatial Economic and Multi-Criteria Analysis of the Optimal Siting of Wind Power Plants Seminar Announcement Abstract: The US Dept of Energy SunShot Initiative is a national collaborative effort to make solar energy cost-competitive with other forms of electricity by the end of the decade. How […]
Date: 2/8/16 Time: 2:00pm Location: Baker Hall 129 Conference Room Speaker: Steven Rose Topic: Spatial Economic and Multi-Criteria Analysis of the Optimal Siting of Wind Power Plants Seminar Announcement Abstract: The social cost of carbon (SCC) is an estimate of global climate change damages to society from a unit of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Policy-makers are increasingly developing and […]
From www.cmu.edu: Speaking before the House Science and Technology Committee, Granger Morgan highlighted actions that could make the nation’s electricity supply less vulnerable and more resilient, which could save lives. He focused on strategies to avoid physical disruption of the power system; strategies to speed the process of repairing the system after physical disruption; and […]
*Seminar has been moved to 1:00pm* Date: 10/28/2015 Time: 1:00pm Location: Baker Hall 129 Conference Room Speaker: Reinhard Madlener Topic: Spatial Economic and Multi-Criteria Analysis of the Optimal Siting of Wind Power Plants Seminar Announcement Abstract: Wind energy is one of the most important renewable energy sources in Germany, playing a key role regarding energy and climate policy targets […]
