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Energy Working Group: Shale Gas in China: Hype and Reality
May 9, 2012
In recent years, natural gas prices in the United States have gone from historic highs of over $12 per mmBtu in the summer of 2008, to under $2.50/mmBtu in 2012.
Energy Working Group: Supply Function Equilibrium and its Policy Implications for Wholesale Electricity Markets
November 4, 2011
PESD visiting scholar Pär Holmberg from the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm led this Energy Working Group talk.
Transmission Policies to Unlock America's Renewable Energy Resources
September 15, 2011
On behalf of PESD, Stanford co-hosts PIE, TomKat, and SIEPR, and external sponsors Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and the Kauffman Foundation, convened an all-day conference on September 15 on ...
Energy Working Group: Modeling the World Steam Coal Market: To What Extent Does China Exercise Monopsony Power?
February 16, 2011
This EWG talk will highlight PESD's first analysis using our new coal model by demonstrating how it can be used to analyze the effects of China's import behavior on world thermal coal consumption....
Energy Market Company's Singapore Electricity Roundtable
October 28, 2010
PESD Director Frank Wolak will be delivering the keynote address at the 6th Singapore Electricity Roundtable 2010.
Climate Policy Instruments in the Real World
September 7, 2010
The Program on Energy and Sustainable Development in collaboration with Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School hosted a special conference on Climate Policy...
The Missing Link: Constructing a Dynamic Pricing Plan for a Smarter Grid
June 9, 2010
PESD Director Frank Wolak will be delivering the keynote address at Agrion Business Network for Energy's panel discussion - The Missing Link: Constructing a Dynamic Pricing Plan for a Smarter Grid
CalCEF Angel Network: Investing in Electricity, The Ultimate Commodity?
April 15, 2010
PESD Director and the Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies Frank Wolak will be attending the CalCEF Angel Network meeting on "Investing in Electricity, The Ultimate Commodity?" as...
15th Annual POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy
March 18, 2010
UC Berkeley's the Energy Institute at Haas holds an annual research conference on energy research and policy.
Why the United States has yet to Benefit from Electricity Industry Re-structuring
April 29, 2009
Frank Wolak discusses restructuring of the electricity industry in the U.S. using examples from California and explains the problems involved in energy market design.
SLAC Colloquium: Reconciling the Rapid Growth of Coal and CO2 Emissions in Global Energy Markets
March 23, 2009
PESD research associate Richard K. Morse will present "Reconciling the Rapid Growth of Coal and CO2 Emissions in Global Energy Markets."
Frontiers of Research on Low Income Energy
February 24, 2009
Workshop Focus With around 2 billion people using biomass as their primary energy source, and 1.6 billion people without access to electricity, there are many unanswered questions on how to best...
Incentive Mechanisms for Electricity Transmission Expansion
January 27, 2009
Electricity transmission pricing and transmission grid expansion have received increasing regulatory and analytical attention in recent years.
Indian Gas
October 31, 2007
PESD has concluded a two year collaborative study on the Indian natural gas market with three India research groups- A.T.
Electricity and the Human Prospect Conference
December 8, 2004
During the 20th century electricity spread from tiny islands of experimental service to become the world's most important energy carrier.
Electricity Reforms in India: Firm Choices, Emerging Markets, and Externalities
September 23, 2004
With our partners at the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), PESD hosted a conference on the 23rd and 24th of Sept.
State-Level Electricity Reforms: Impacts on Technology, Institutions and Environment
April 7, 2003
Inaugural workshop of the joint IIM/A-Stanford study on electricity sector reforms in India.
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