PESD Affiliates

PESD is privileged to work with the following centers, organizations, and institutions, both at Stanford University and worldwide.

Stanford University

Stanford Law School
Through Professors Tom Heller and David Victor, PESD has links to advanced student research at Stanford Law related to regulatory reform, foreign investment in power projects, environmental regulation, and reform of power markets in developing countries.

Stanford Energy Modeling Forum (EMF 20)
The EMF 20 involved modelers at leading academic and consulting organizations, and experts from the Energy Information Administration and the industry in a comprehensive examination of future natural gas prices and volatility, infrastructure requirements, reserve estimates, and roles for LNG, among other factors.

Australia

Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University | Canberra
Research Focus: Through Professor Larry Goulder, PESD is funding work on economic analysis of flexible emissions targets for developing countries.
(lead contact: Frank Jotzo)

Austria

International Atomic Energy Agency | Vienna
Research Focus: Activities with the IAEA relate to Econometric-MESSAGE modeling of energy consumption.
(lead contact: Mark Howells )

Brazil

Instituto de Economica, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IS/UFR) | Rio de Janeiro
Research Focus: Investigating reform of the electric power system in Brazil.
(lead contact: Adilson de Oliveira)

Canada

Center for Global Studies, University of Victoria (CFGS/UVIC)| Victoria, BC
Research Focus: Joint studies on the prospects for fomulating a "leaders 20 (L20)" of key industrialized and developing countries to work on global problems, such as climate change and energy security.
(lead contact:Barry Carin)

China

Guangdong Technoeconomic Research and Development Center (GTRDC) | Guangdong
Research Focus: Energy and economic development analysis for the provincial government.
(lead contact: Leming Zeng )

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) | Beijing
Research Focus: The role of energy consumption in economic development in rural China.
(lead contact: Jiahua Pan)

School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University | Shanghai
Research Focus: Thermal energy analysis, coal fired power plants.
(lead contact: Prof. Yonghua Luo)

Institute of Nuclear & New Energy Technology, Tsinghua Univeristy | Tsinghua
Research Focus: Energy and environmental research, global warming.
(lead contact: Prof. Wenying Chen)

India

India Institute of Management in Ahmedabad (IIM-A) | Gujarat
Research Focus: The impact of potential market reforms on fuel efficiency and emissions from the electric power system in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. Funded in part by USAID.
(lead contact: P.R. Shukla, Ph.D.)

Integrated Research for Action and Development | New Dehli
Research Focus: Updating a general equilibrium model of the Indian economy to include explicit treatment of commercial energy inputs in the agricultutral sector, allowing for an analysis of the impact of energy and agricltural policies on the prices of agricultural products.
(lead contact: Jyoti and Kirit Parikh)

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) | New Delhi
Research Focus: The commercial energy transition in India with a focus on the role of energy in the development process. TERI is also conducting surveys within India on energy consumption inventories in rural areas and evaluating attempts to alter energy consumption patterns through public policy.
(lead contact: Leena Srivastava and Ibrahim Hafeezur Rehman)

Japan

Institute for New International Political Systems | Matsudo
Research Focus: The geopolitics of the Qatargas project
(lead contact: Kohei Hashimoto)

Mexico

Secretaria de Energia, Government of Mexico (SENER) | Mexico City
Research Focus: Reform of the electric power and natural gas industries within Mexico.
(lead contact: Armando Jimenez San Vicente)

Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE) | Mexico
Research Focus: Reform of the electric power industry in Mexico
(lead contact: Víctor Carreón, Ph.D.)

South Africa

Energy Research Center, University of Cape Town (ERC-UCT) | Cape Town
Research Focus: Energy consumption at low income levels in rural areas—electricity, kerosene, and LPG.
(lead contact: Alison Hughes and Bruno Merven)

Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town (GSB-UCT) | Cape Town
Research Focus: The political economy of electric power market reform in South Africa.
(lead contact: Anton Eberhard, Ph.D.)

United Kingdom

Gas Strategies Consulting Ltd | London
Research Focus: The economics and geopolitics of the Trinidad LNG projects.
(lead contacts: James Ball, Robert Shepherd)

United States

James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University | Houston, TX
1. Research Focus: Joint PESD-Baker Institute study on the geopolitics of the global gas industry.
(lead contact: Amy Jaffe)
2. Research Focus: The geopolitics of Indonesian natural gas exports to Japan.
(lead contact: Steven W. Lewis, Fred von der Mehden)

Electricity Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University (CEIC) | Pittsburgh, PA
1. Research Focus: Role of digital technology in the Indian power grid.
(lead contact: Rahul Tongia)
2. Research Focus: Reform issues in the Indian power system, in particular in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, and Orissa.
(lead contact: Rahul Tongia)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Washington, DC
Research Focus: The geopolitical implications of increasing gas infrastructure investment in Central Asia.
(lead contact: Martha Olcott)

Yale Univeristy | New Haven, CT
Research Focus: The effect of federalism on private participation in infrastructure investment in developing countries.
(lead contact: T.N. Srinivasan)

University of California San Diego (UCSD) | San Diego, CA
1. Research Focus: The geopolitical implications of the shift to natural gas in the Southern Cone.
(lead contact: Professor David Mares)
2. Research Focus: The effect of federalism on private participation in infrastructure investment in developing countries.
(lead contact: Professor Jessica Wallack)

Resources for the Future (RFF) | Washington, DC
Research Focus: Provided background research and analysis for the joint PESD-TERI workshop on the energy transition, held in New Delhi, November 2002.
(lead contact: Michael Toman, Ph.D. [Now at the Inter-American Development Bank])

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