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”

Effective Approaches for Funding Cleantech: Are We There Yet?

Mike Jackson, Partner, The Westly Group

Disrupting the Power Sector: Overpowering Inertia and Incrementalism

Paul Hudson, Managing Partner, Stratus Energy Group, LLC

Energy Research at the Intersection of Computer Science, Decision Sciences, and Complex Systems

Kiran Lakkaraju, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

China’s Role in Global Clean Energy Technology Development

Joanna Lewis, Associate Professor, Georgetown University

Feeding the Dragon: Energy in China

Fred Beach, Assistant Director, Energy Institute

Renewables in Texas: Costs, Project Development, and Policy Issues

Panel discussion with Clay Butler (The Butler Firm), Colin Meehan (First Solar), and Spivey Paup (E.ON Renewables)

Impacts of Adoption of a More Fuel Efficient Vehicle Fleet

Steve Puller, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University

The Importance of Fuel Diversity in the Energy Generation Mix

Cris Eugster, Executive Vice President, Chief Generation and Strategy Officer, CPS Energy

Energy and Urbanization

Arnulf Grubler, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and Yale 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)”

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

Carbon Neutral Design: An Architectural Primer

James Wasley, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Electricity Scarcity Pricing and Resource Adequacy

William Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy, Harvard University

Stanford’s ARPA-E Sensors and Energy Behavior Initiative

Carrie Armel, Research Associate, Stanford University

Human Nature & the Grid

Craig Boice, President Boice Dunham Group