Transforming America’s Grid through Technology, Competition & Green Power
J. Calvin Crowder, President, Electric Transmission Texas
A Ringside Seat: What I learned from 10 years reporting on, and living through, the fracking revolution
Russell Gold, Senior Energy Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
A Status Report on the U.S. Nuclear Energy Program
William C. Ostendorff, Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner
Emerging Legal and Political Issues in Shale Gas Production
David Spence, Associate Professor, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin
Human Nature & the Grid
Craig Boice, President Boice Dunham Group
Stanford’s ARPA-E Sensors and Energy Behavior Initiative
Carrie Armel, Research Associate, Stanford University
Electricity Scarcity Pricing and Resource Adequacy
William Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy, Harvard University
Carbon Neutral Design: An Architectural Primer
James Wasley, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Trade-offs in Climate Mitigation Strategies: Assessing the Regional Variations in the Health, Environmental, and Climate Benefits of Wind and Solar Generation Across the United States
Inês Azevedo, Assistant Professor and Co-director, Climate and Energy Decision Making, Carnegie Mellon University
Student Research Showcase
- Brent Bennett, PhD student, Materials Science and Engineering: “Redox Flow Batteries: How Cutting-Edge Chemistry Will Transform the Electric Grid”
- Sean Wood, PhD student, Chemical Engineering: “Improved Lithium-ion Batteries using Lead Telluride (PbTe)”