Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Program on Energy and Sustainable Development Stanford University




Market Monitoring in the US Energy Market by Frank Wolak /FSR Monthly Interview

During a visit to Toulouse, France to present at “The Economics of Energy Markets” conference at the Toulouse School of Economics, PESD Director Frank Wolak was interviewed by Professor Jean-Michel Glachant of the Florence School Regulation about his work monitoring wholesale electricity markets. +VIDEO+
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U.S. shale gas prompts PRB coal producers to look to Asia

In advance of the 2013 Pacific Energy Summit, which will take place April 2-4 in Vancouver, Canada, PESD Associate Director Mark Thurber spoke with the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) about how the U.S. shale gas revolution has pushed coal producers in the U.S. Powder River Basin to look to Asia for a more robust market.



Misguided “Oil Scarcity Ideology” Has Distorted US National Security Policy

The “peak oil” fallacy is not new; in fact it has long inflicted real harm in the geopolitical sphere despite persistent evidence of its falsity. Roger Stern, Research Assistant Professor of Energy at the University of Tulsa’s Collins College of Business, describes in a new PESD working paper how “oil scarcity ideology” influenced US national security policy in profoundly detrimental ways from 1909 to 1980.

February 16, 2012
National oil companies can cause pain at pump, research shows

January 15, 2013
Resource nationalism constrained by risk of developing new oil and gas deposits

December 18, 2012
Export American natural gas? Not so fast, says Stanford economist

December 13, 2012
Canada’s new investment rules for oil sands target foreign NOCs

October 19, 2012
Wolak comments on California’s gasoline prices and the low carbon fuel standard



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