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Sustainable development
Scholarly Publications
Wind, Coal, and the Cost of Environmental Externalities
April 2013
AbstractWe compare the cost of generating electricity with coal and wind in Chile’s Central Interconnected System (SIC).
Oil Scarcity Ideology in US National Security Policy, 1909‐1980
February 2013
AbstractOver the past century peak oil forecasts have had a profound influence on US national security policy. Unquestioned acceptance of a variety of oil scarcity forecasts, all of which proved...
Oil and Governance: State-owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply
January 2012
National oil companies (NOCs) produce most of the world’s oil and natural gas and bankroll governments across the globe.
Other Publications
Regulatory Barriers to Lowering the Carbon Content of Energy Services
May 2010
A preliminary list of regulatory barriers that restrain the commercialization of technologies that would reduce the carbon content of energy services consumed in the United States.At the request of...
News
Video: Morse Led the SLAC Colloquium on Coal Renaissance in a Post-Kyoto World
June 2011
On Monday, June 13, 2011, as part of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's colloquium series, Richard Morse from the Program on Energy on Sustainable Development led the talk on “Addressing the ...
Transmission Policies to Unlock America's Renewable Energy Resources
May 2011
Our annual conference has now concluded.
PESD Working Paper #101 on Australia's black coal industry featured in Platts Coal Trader International
April 2011
Platts' most recent issue of Coal Trader International features PESD Working Paper #101 by Bart Lucarelli.
Events
Use of Improved Biomass Stoves in Karnataka and Maharashtra States, India: Understanding Factors Affecting Widespread Adoption
February 24, 2012
Burning of biomass in traditional stoves is associated with a host of ills among an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world, even though cleaner and more efficient technologies exist that...
National Oil Companies and the World Oil Market: Should We Be Worried?
February 7, 2012
State-owned oil and natural gas companies, such as Saudi Aramco, Petróleos de Venezuela and China National Petroleum Corp., own 73 percent of the world's oil reserves and 68 percent of its natural...
Chatham House: National Oil Companies and the Future of the Oil and Gas Industry
December 12, 2011
This event marks the UK release of a new book, Oil and Governance: State-owned Enterprises and the World Energy Supply (CUP), from the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford...
Projects
Instruments of Energy and Environmental Policy
Instruments of Energy Policy, hosted by the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, brings to Stanford four notable researchers...
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