November 23rd, 2010

PESD receives smart grid research grant from Stanford's TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy

The TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy has awarded four research grants totaling $1.2 million to Stanford University researchers for smart power grid related studies. One of the four grants went to a PESD-led project that will help regulators overcome barriers to the development of electricity transmission lines needed to facilitate renewable energy deployment. Read more »

October 13th, 2010

Wolak to be the keynote speaker at the 6th Singapore Electricity Roundtable 2010

PESD Director Frank Wolak will be participating in the Singapore Electricity Roundtable 2010 hosted by Energy Market Company (EMC) as the keynote speaker, covering the challenges in developing regional electricity markets, as well as sit as an industry panelist. Read more »

September 30th, 2010

New PESD Working Paper details challenges of designing carbon offsets for the transportation sector

Programs to enlist developing countries in climate change mitigation by granting credits for carbon emissions reductions across entire sectors like transportation are quite appealing in principle. However, as researcher Adam Millard-Ball shows in PESD Working Paper #97, "Adverse Selection in an Opt-In Emissions Trading Program: The Case of Sectoral Crediting for Transportation," any practical implementation of such schemes would entail thorny trade offs between economic efficiency, environmental effectiveness, and political acceptability. Read more »

September 27th, 2010

Morse featured on Oregon Public Radio

PESD researcher Richard Morse discusses the potential for U.S. coal exports to Asia on Oregon Public Radio.

• » OPB: "Global Trade in the Northwest"

September 20th, 2010

PowerCentsDC smart grid project concluded ealier this month with analysis by PESD Director Frank Wolak

The first smart meter pilot program in the electric utility industry to test an integrated Smart Grid combination of consumer engagement practices, dynamic pricing, and smart appliance control concluded on September 9, 2010. This program's results were analyzed by PESD Director Frank Wolak.

• » Renewable Energy and the Smart Grid
• » Washington DC smart grid project results revealed at press conference today
• » Federal Government to Use District Pilot as Blueprint for Smart Grid Success

September 13th, 2010

PESD researcher Richard Morse quoted in Oregonian newspaper

Richard Morse discusses how Indian and Chinese coal demand could open up new coal export routes off the U.S. West Coast in the Oregonian newspaper.

• » Mining companies aim to export coal to China through Northwest ports

September 12th, 2010

Frank Wolak to participate in the 2010 Regional Council of Rural Counties (RCRC) meeting

PESD Director Frank Wolak will be leading the "Petroleum's Future" talk along with Michael Roman from the Public and Government Affairs, ExxonMobil Corporation. This 3-day event will feature individuals across academia and the public and private sector.

• » RCRC 2010 Annual Meeting website

September 10th, 2010

PESD releases study of Nigeria's national oil company NNPC

Nigeria's national oil company NNPC is at the center of a profoundly dysfunctional oil sector in a country that some argue embodies the "resource curse." In a new study, PESD Associate Director Mark Thurber and PESD affiliated researchers Ify Emelife and Patrick Heller find that NNPC's persistent underperformance stems from its role as the linchpin of a sophisticated and durable system of patronage. Read more »

September 9th, 2010

Wolak presented at the Guanghua Leadership Institute's City Leader Program

PESD Director Frank Wolak was invited to present at the Guanghua Leadership Institute's City Leader Program held at Stanford. Read more »

August 5th, 2010

New PESD Working Paper explains China's dramatic surge in coal imports and its major impact on global coal markets

PESD researchers Morse and He devise a model that explains Chinese coal import patterns and that can allow the coal market to understand, and to some degree predict, China's coal import behavior in PESD Working Paper #94 - "The World's Greatest Coal Arbitrage: China's Coal Import Behavior and Implications for the Global Coal Market."

• » The World's Greatest Coal Arbitrage: China's Coal Import Behavior and Implications for the Global Coal Market

July 23rd, 2010

Morse quoted and PESD Working Paper featured in ClimateWire and The New York Times

PESD researcher Richard Morse was interviewed and quoted on his views about China's deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies as China increase their CCS efforts with U.S.
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