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

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

Estimation of Environmental and Social Costs from U.S. Offshore Oil and Gas Production and From the Alternatives
Kim Coffman, Peter Meffert, John Weiss
Willingness to Pay for Green Electricity from Wind, Solar, and Hydro Energy Under a RPS Mechanism
Jihyo Kim, Eunnyeong Heo, Jooyoung Park, Haeyeon Kim
New Developments in the Use of Valuation to Support Real Asset Decisions with a CO2 Management Opportunity as an Example
David Laughton
Market Arbitrage: European and North American Natural Gas Prices
Mine Yucel, Stephen Brown
Estimating Regional Short-run and Long-run Price Elasticities of Residential Natural Gas Demand in the U.S.
Fred Joutz, Robert Trost, David Shin, Bruce McDowell

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
Better Houses, Appliances or Vehicles? Evaluating the Cost Effectiveness of U.S. Household Carbon Mitigation Strategies
Ines Azevedo, Constantine Samaras, Elisabeth Gilmore
Capacity Market Design to Integrate Renewable Energy
Xiaoyue Jiang, Geoffrey Parker, Ekundayo Shittu
Electricity Savings in Households with Everyday IT, Report from at Field Experiment
Anders Larsen, Kaj Kibsgaard , Soeren Leth–Petersen, Kristian Stiesmark , Mikael Togeby

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
Global Econometric Demand Functions for Road Gasoline and Diesel
Nasser Aldossary, Carol Dahl

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
The Sources of Uncertainty Along the Natural Gas Commodity Chain And Options to Mitigate Uncertainty
Vladimir Ivanenko
A Lot Left Over: Reducing CO2 Emissions through the Use of Natural Gas
Becky Lafrancois

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

Jim Smith Presiding

Evaluating the Claims of Energy Efficiency: The Interaction of Temperature Response, New Construction, and House Size
Howard Chong
Cost-Competitive CO2 Mitigation with Combined Heat and Power Systems in Calgary
Nicolas Choquette-Levy, Rahul Nakhasi, Geoff Holmes, Marc Beaudin
Identifying the Elasticity of Driving: Evidence from a Gasoline Price Shock in California
Kenneth Gillingham
Do U.S. Households Favor High Fuel Economy Vehicles When Gasoline Prices Increase? A Discrete Choice Analysis
Karplus Valerie

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

Developing CO2 Supply Cost Curves from the Fort McMurray Area, 2005 - 2020
Sam Wong, Guillermo Ordorica-Garcia, John Faltinson, Surindar Singh
Heartland Area Redwater CO2 Storage Project (HARP): A Study of CO2 Storage Economics
Brent Lakeman, Heather Campbell
CO2 Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery: Incremental Recovery and Associated CO2 Storage Potential in Alberta
Blaine Hawkins, Quinn Goretzky
Economics of Geological Sequestration Options for the Shenhua Coal Liquefaction Plant
Hui Su, Jerald Fletcher

9. Future Electric Generation Capacity Expansion
Einar Hope Presiding

Energy and Economic Growth: Causality Analysis Using Decomposed Energy Consumption
Jinsoo Kim
Energy Ladders of Supply and Demand
Paul Burke
The Value Of Long-Term Contracts In Financing New Generation Capacity
John Parsons
Efficient Capacity Investment and Joint Production Agreements in an Oligopolistic Electricity Market: The HidroAysén Joint Venture Project
Ricardo Raineri, Gonzalo Contreras

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
How the Mexican Petroleum Industry Fell Behind in its Innovative and Absorptive Capability and Why New Frontiers Are Not Likely to Be Unveiled for Some Time
Francisco Flores-Macias
A Regulatory Innovation Incentive for Alternative Grid Structure Design Options
Natalie Prüggler, Christoph Bremberger

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

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
An Analysis of Strategies About Bioethanol in the World Using a Global Energy System Model
Hiromi Yamamoto
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
Risk Aversion and OPEC: An Alternative Model for OPEC
Douglas Reynolds

13. Generation and Transmission Investment Under Uncertainty
Jonathan Story Presiding

Fuel Tax and Gasoline Consumption: A Panel Data Analysis of OECD Countries
Xiaoyi Mu
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

14. Clean Coal Technologies
Carol Dahl Presiding

Clearing the Air: Cap-and-Trade vs. Carbon Tax
Lori Schell
Pollution Abatement with Intermittent Sources of Energy
Hagen Schwerin
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

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

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
Economic Evaluation of Ocean CO2 Injection as a Means for Reducing Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentrations
Thomas Rodengen, Karen Kohfeld, Andy Ridgwell
An Integrated Approach to Modeling Land-use Implication on U.S. Agriculture Sector Under a Carbon Policy
Sugandha Tuladhar, Mei Yuan, Paul Bernstein, David Montgomery, Anne Smith
Designing Robust Hedging Strategies for U.S. Electric Sector Planning Under an Uncertain Climate Policy
Joseph DeCarolis, Kevin Hunter, Sarat Sreepathi

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

Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal and Electricity Market in Singapore
Youngho Chang, Benjamin Tang
Oil Price Shocks and Economic Growth in Nigeria: Are Thresholds Important?
Oluwatosin Adeniyi
Energy and Economic Development: An Assessment by Studying the Causality Between Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in ECOWAS
Ouedraogo Nadia
Oil Price Shocks and Macroeconomy: Precautionary Demand in Crude Oil Market
Islam Rizvanoghlu

17. Electricity Market and Energy System Modeling
Georg Erdmann Presiding

Modeling the Large Scale Deployment of Distributed Generation onto Electricity Markets
Liam Wagner, Luke Reedman
Estimating Cost Function Using Observed Bid Data in Wholesale Electricity Italian Market
Carlo A. Bollino, Paolo Polinori
Energy Storage and its Ability to Add Stability to Intermittent Generation and Reduce Distribution Network Costs
Craig Froome, Liam Wagner
Impact Analysis of Innovative Busniess Models for Future Smart Grid and DG/RES Developments
Wolfgang Prüggler
Projecting the Deployement of Coal-and-Biomass-to-Liquids Technology Using MARKAL
Chris Nichols

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
A Randomized Control Trial to Evaluate the Power of Information
Sebastien Houde
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

Indirect Land Use Change from Biofuels: Exploring Implications of Production System Heterogeneity for Results and Mitigation Strategies
Julie Witcover, Siwa Msangi, Sonia Yeh
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
Applied Valuation of Demand Response Under Uncertainty: Combining Supply-Side Methods to Value Equivalent Demand-Side Resources
Kenneth Skinner, Jeffrey Ward

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

How Viable is the Hydrogen Economy: The Case of Iceland
Mamdouh Salameh
Near-term Emission Paths May Require Future Negative Emission Strategies
Derek Lemoine, Sabine Fuss, Jana Szolgayova, Michael Obersteiner, Daniel Kammen
Underground Storage of Hydrogen: Assessing Geostorage Options with a Life Cycle Based Systems Approach
Anna Lord, Peter Kobos, Dave Borns
Modeling Greenhouse Gas Emissions for a Molten Carbonate Fuel Cell Tri-Generation (Heat, Hydrogen, and Power) System
Darlene Steward, Marc Melaina
Balancing the Acts in the Power Sector: The Unfolding Story of Nigeria Independent Power Projects
Olusegun Adegulugbe, Abiodun Momodu, Adeola Adenikinju, Kayode Akinbami, Precious Onuvae

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

Modeling and Forecasting Residential Electricity Consumption in the U.S. Mountain Region
Fred Joutz, Jason Jorgenson
Energy Demand and GHG Emission of the Quebec Pulp and Paper Industry: An Econometric Analysis
Jean-Thomas Bernard, Julie Ades, Patrick Gonzalez
Beyond Commodity Markets - Emerging Issues in Canadian Industrial Energy Use
Ken Newel

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

Hystorical Performance of Combined Cycle Generation In the U.S.
Margarita Sapozhnikov, Alex Rudkevich, Bruce Tsuchida, John Goldis, Richard Tabors, Jim McMahon
Petroleum Industry Restructuring in Nigeria: A Simulation Analysis of its Impact on Deepwater E&P Project Economics & Take Statistics
Omowunmi Iledare
The Impact of a Regulatory Gap for Oil and Gas on First Nations Land
Lucija Muehlenbachs, Will Gans

23. Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emission
Seth Blumsack Presiding

Equilibrium Forward Gas Prices with Storage
Burcu Cigerli
Efficient but Sufficient Support of all RES Technologies in Times of Volatile Raw Energy Prices
Christian Panzer, Gustav Resch, Ric Hoefnagels, Martin Junginger
Land Use and Environmental Impacts of Corn Grain versus Cellulosic Ethanol: a GIS Approach
Silvia Secchi

24. Climate Uncertainty & Hedging Energy Investment
Peter Nance Presiding

GHG Emissions Quantification Resulting from Hydropower-based Electricity Trade and Market Analysis: The Case of Quebec (2006-2008)
Mourad Ben Amor, Pierre-Olivier Pineau, Caroline Gaudeault, Réjean Samson
Climate Policy Uncertainty and Investment Behavior: Evidence From Small Hydropower Plants
Ane Marte Heggedal, Stein-Erik Fleten, Kristin Linnerud
Comparison of Carbon Taxes vs. Cap-and-Trade Policies Under Uncertainty
Gilbert Metcalf, Jennifer Morris
The Need for Nuclear Power in Mexico
Pablo Mulás, Juan Eibenschutz, Gerardo Bazan

25. Electricity Market Analysis
Lars Bergman Presiding

Demand Side Management: New Perspectives For a New Era
Sanya Carley
Conventional and Unconventional Management Methods of Energy Efficiency for Peripheral Regions
Namejs Zeltins, Karlis Mikelsons, Viktors Zebergs, Vilnis Kreslins
Sustainable Indicators for Electricity Industry in the North of Mexico
Patricia Navarro-Alvarado
A Comparison of Natural Gas and Electricity Consumption in the Residential Sector
Mark Rebman
Toward More Complete Electricity Markets
Zhiyong Wu, Marija Ilic

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
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

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
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, Chris Marnay, Nicholas Deforest, Florence Bonnet, Judy Lai, Trucy Phan
Volatility Interactions between Financial and Crude Oil Markets
Thomas Lee, John Zyren

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

Long Run Energy Demand in Iran; Efficiency and Renewable Energy Scenarios
Saeed Moshiri, Farideh Atabi, Mohammad Hassan Panjeshahi, Stefan Lechtenboehmer
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
Application of Linear Programming for Modeling Environmental, Social, Political, Technical Economic and Market Variables in the Integrated Energy Resources Planning for the Development of Energy Resources Portfolios
Mário Biague
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
Resource Booms and the Poor
Graham Davis, Arturo Vasquez Cordano

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