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 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) 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 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) 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 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) 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 |