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MIT ENERGY CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 21 - 22, 2014
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Agenda
Friday, February 21, 2014
MIT Campus, Cambridge >10:00 | WelcomeRobert Armstrong , MITEI Executive Director |
10:15 | Keynote AddressDaniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author & IHS Vice Chairman |
10:45 | MIT Energy Perspectives: What’s New at MIT?TED-style presentations by MIT energy researchers |
12:00 | Keynote AddressKen Salazar, Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior |
12:30 | Lunch |
1:15 | Panels - Session 1From Lab Space to Marketplace: Bridging the Valley of DeathScaling Intelligent Efficiency: Overcoming Behavioral and Market Barriers to Saving Energy |
2:45 | Panels - Session 2Biofuels in Transportation: Understanding the Challenges and OpportunitiesExpanding the Solar Frontier: Financial Innovations for Community Investment |
4:15 | Keynote Plenary |
5:30 | Poster Session |
Saturday, February 22, 2104
Westin Coley Place, Boston >8:00 | Welcome |
9:00 | Breakfast |
9:15 | Panels - Session 3The Natural Gas Boom: A Transition Towards Energy Sustainability, or an Environmental Challenge?Policy and Economics of Carbon: Regulatory, Economic, and Technical Challenges for Efficient Carbon Markets |
10:45 | Panels - Session 4Fitting the Grid to RenewablesThe Power of Energy: Diplomacy in an Evolving Global Energy Dialogue |
12:00 | Lunch & Keynote AddressMaria van der Hoeven, IEA Executive Director |
1:45 | Panels - Session 5Innovations in Clean Tech FinanceNuclear-Renewables Partnership: The Prospects of Integrating Nuclear and Intermittent Renewables |
3:15 | Keynote PlenaryBuilding an Ecosystem for Energy Entrepreneurship, Alicia Barton, MassCEC; Libby Wayman, EERE; Paul Woods, Algenol |
4:30 | Reception |
5:00 | Showcase |
Saturday Showcase
About the Saturday Night Showcase
The MIT Energy Conference Saturday Night Showcase is a free event open to the public designed to exhibit the latest research and technologies in the energy space. With more than 90 presenters and 1,500 attendees, the Showcase is the most widely attended event of the MIT Energy Conference. In a fun and engaging environment, energy professionals, students, researchers and investors will be able to explore the innovations that will shape the industry.In a significant departure from previous years, the Showcase will be held on Saturday night at the Westin Copley Place in downtown Boston, the same location as the panel activities occurring during the day. As the culminating event of the Conference, the Showcase promises to be an informative and celebratory recap of the entire event!
In addition to static displays, the Showcase will also feature interactive demos and prototypes, giving attendees a unique opportunity to mingle with prominent energy researchers and innovators in a hands-on atmosphere. The casual setting is designed to foster dialogue amongst energy-conscious community members and experienced professionals.
Panels
The Power of Energy: Diplomacy in an Evolving Global Energy Dialogue
Saturday, February 22, 2014 - 10:45 to 12:00
Developing
countries have overtaken developed countries as the largest energy
consumers, newfound resources in central Africa and the eastern
Mediterranean are changing the global energy supply map, and the United
States is experiencing more energy independence than at any time in
recent history. This panel will explore the development of trade
relations, transportation infrastructure, emissions standards, and
regional stability initiatives within the context of a rapidly changing
global energy landscape.
Panel Moderator:
Henri Daher
Speakers:
Raul Camba
Karen Harbert
The Natural Gas Boom: A Transition Towards Energy Sustainability or An Environmental Challenge?
Saturday, February 22, 2014 - 09:15 to 10:30
The
United States is currently benefitting from a burgeoning natural gas
industry driven by advancements in hydraulic fracturing. However, there
remains uncertainty around the environmental consequences of such
action. This panel will look to contrast these costs and benefits by
discussing various environmental concerns, the new technologies and
regulatory measures that might be adopted to allay them, and the
associated costs and benefits of investing in a natural gas future.
Panel Moderator:
Francis O'Sullivan
Speakers:
Daniel Schrag
Bob Kleinberg
Ethan Phillips
Michael A. Levi
Scaling Intelligent Efficiency: Overcoming Behavioral and Market Barriers to Saving Energy
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 13:15 to 14:30
Despite
the potential of efficiency, businesses and governments have largely
been unable to spur energy-saving technologies at scale. A prevailing
trend in the market is the increased use of “smart” technology, together
with a proliferation of building and market data, to enable a reduction
in the costs of identifying and implementing energy efficiency and
changing end-use behavior. This panel will examine the current state of
the market, and how market actors (businesses, regulators, and
utilities) are working to overcome barriers to proliferate advanced
approaches for realizing our energy efficiency potential.
Panel Moderator:
Stephen Lacey
Speakers:
Alex Kinnier
Harvey Michaels
Badri Raghavan
Micah Remley
Policy and Economics of Carbon: Regulatory, Economic and Technical Challenges for Efficient Carbon Markets
Saturday, February 22, 2014 - 09:15 to 10:30
To
efficiently and effectively address carbon emissions, recent history
has repeatedly shown that carbon markets must be carefully tuned. This
panel will engage key stakeholders to understand how economic incentives
can be created to efficiently reach socially desirable results; how
regulatory policies make or break carbon markets; and what the main
technical challenges are to the implementation of carbon regulation and
markets.
Speakers:
Denny Ellerman
Michael Wara
Nuclear-Renewables Partnership: The Prospects of Integrating Nuclear and Intermittent Renewables
Saturday, February 22, 2014 - 13:45 to 15:00
Significant
penetration of intermittent renewables and rich natural gas generation
resources have created challenges for the operation of nuclear power
plants. This panel will discuss medium- to long-term market and
technological routes to achieving a grid in which nuclear generation and
intermittent renewable generation resources coexist.
Panel Moderator:
Ray Rothrock
Speakers:
Charles Forsberg
Ralph Izzo
Phil Giudice
Ignacio Perez-Arriaga
MIT Energy Perspectives: What's New at MIT
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 10:45 to 12:00
Groundbreaking
research at MIT is leading the way in an energy revolution, and this
event will showcase some of the newest and most exciting energy research
at MIT’s labs. Researchers will speak about their work and their
experiences along the technology frontier, in fields ranging from energy
storage and renewables to conventional energy and entrepreneurship.
This opening line-up will kick off the 2014 MIT Energy Conference.
Panel Moderator:
Robert Armstrong
Speakers:
Don Sadoway
Alex Slocum
Innovations in Clean Tech Finance
Saturday, February 22, 2014 - 13:45 to 15:00
In
order for the full scope and magnitude of energy innovation to be
realized, developments in financing must parallel technological
developments. This panel will examine the finance innovations that are
changing the way energy projects and companies are funded, along with
the legal and structural hurdles they face. Topics to be explored
include the use of REITS/MLPs, new government tax subsidies and support
programs, innovative funding vehicles for start-ups, and clean energy
investment funds.
Panel Moderator:
John Parsons
Speakers:
Richard Mull
David Feldman
Dan Elkort
Angela Ferrante
From Lab Space to Marketplace: Bridging the Valley of Death
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 13:15 to 14:30
Many
breakthrough energy technologies originate in R&D and academic
laboratories, but many perish there as well. As scientists and
entrepreneurs try to move nascent energy technologies from the research
phase to large scale commercialization, they face high capital costs,
intense competition from deeply entrenched incumbents, and a dizzying
array of contractual and financing hurdles. This panel will explore key
scale-up challenges and discuss possible solutions and resources for
scientists, founders, and investors.
Speakers:
Cheryl Martin
Matt Nordan
Yet-Ming Chiang
Ayman Fawaz
Fitting the Grid to Renewables
Saturday, February 22, 2014 - 10:45 to 12:00
A
variety of solutions have been proposed to solve the challenge of
large-scale renewables integration into the transmission network, and
this panel will explore the solutions that hold the most promise. This
includes new technologies for improving the capacity and stability of
the existing grid as well as more conventional solutions, such as
transmission expansion and interregional coordination. Stakeholders from
system operators, utilities, and technology developers will discuss
their views on the short- and long-term roles of these solutions to
integrating renewables, as well as the tradeoffs among them.
Panel Moderator:
Ignacio Perez-Arriaga
Speakers:
Ron Schoff
Tim Heidel
Andrew Ott
Expanding the Solar Frontier: Financial Innovations for Community Investment
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 14:45 to 16:00
The
penetration of distributed solar generation into the US electric grid
is rapidly changing the energy landscape. Hard costs have come down
dramatically, but new sources of scalable capital must be unleashed to
continue growing the industry. The next frontier is to develop new
financing methods and innovative business models to reach a broader
market and create social value. This panel will explore the financing
mechanisms and business models that have enabled and will continue to
enable growing integration of distributed solar.
Panel Moderator:
Dan Seif
Speakers:
Greg Rosen
Ray Wood
Albert Luu
Dan Reicher
Biofuels in Transportation: Understanding the Challenges and Opportunities
Friday, February 21, 2014 - 14:45 to 16:00
The
future of transportation energy remains indefinite and the competition
over technology is far from over. Biofuels were envisioned to dominate
the future of post-fossil transportation fuels; however, recent advances
in batteries and electric vehicles have exerted intense pressure on the
market. This panel will examine how the government, biofuels producers,
and the auto industry view the future of these competing classes of
technology, and asks whether current policies promote a level playing
field to drive long term sustainability.
Panel Moderator:
John M. Reilly
Speakers:
Ramon Gonzalez
William Chernicoff
Ulrich Schulz
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