Oil-Climate Index: GHG Emissions Along the Oil Production Supply Chain
David Livingston, Associate, Energy and Climate Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Energy and Development in Asia
Richie Ahuja, Regional Director for Asia, Environmental Defense Fund
Ten Strategies to Systematically Exploit All Options to Cope with Anthropogenic Climate Change
Kelly Klima, Research Scientist, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Energy and Climate Goals in Nordic Countries and Implications for the U.S.
Benjamin Sovacool, Director, Danish Center for Energy Technology at AU-Herning and Professor of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark
Next Generation Photovoltaic Technologies
Brian Korgel, Edward S. Hyman Endowed Chair in Engineering & T. Brockett Hudson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Director, Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Next Generation Photovoltaics, The University of Texas at Austin
Comparative Analysis of Regulations for Offshore Oil Drilling in U.S., U.K. and Norway
Lori Bennear, Associate Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, Duke University
Engineering and Socio-economic Aspects of Sustainable Energy
Mehrdad Ehsani, Robert M. Kennedy Endowed Professor, Director, Sustainable Energy & Vehicle Engineering Program, Power Electronics & Motor Drives Laboratory, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University
Cybersecurity in the Electricity Grid
Gus Lott, Senior Engineer, YarCom Inc.
Methane Emissions in the Natural Gas Supply Chain
David Allen, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Technological and Commercial Innovations in Distributed Energy Generation:
- Charlie Upshaw, PhD student with the Webber Energy Group: “Modeling Peak Load Reduction and Energy Consumption Enabled by an Integrated Thermal Energy and Water Storage System for Residential Air Conditioning Systems in Austin, Texas”
- Erik Funkhouser, researcher with the Energy Systems Transformation group at UT: “Commercial Innovations in Community-scale Distributed Generation”