November 22nd, 2011

PESD Research Informs 2011 World Energy Outlook

Several PESD Working Papers helped inform the analysis of the newly released 2011 World Energy Outlook. Read more »

January 20th, 2011

Wolak's comment to NYT's Room for Debate question: "Can the U.S. Compete with China on Green Tech?"

PESD Director Frank Wolak participated in the New York Times’ Room for Debate about whether the U.S. can compete with China on green tech and the obstacles facing American companies trying to win the front on clean energy in the global market.

• » The New York Times Room for Debate

January 3rd, 2011

PESD study on China's effort to restructure its coal market featured by Bloomberg and Platts

Platts and Bloomberg News highlighted key findings from the recent PESD report, "Remaking the World's Largest Coal Market: The Quest to Develop Large Coal-Power Bases in China".

• » JPU settles half of 2011 Australian thermal contract at $115/mt: source

December 3rd, 2010

New PESD research examines China's efforts to remake its coal and power sectors

PESD's new research analyzes China's coal-power base reforms and how they will impact Chinese and global coal markets. Read more »

May 10th, 2010

PESD Director Frank Wolak travels to the White House for the Energy Innovation Conference

At the request of the Kauffman Foundation, PESD director Frank Wolak compiled a list of state and local regulatory barriers that restrain the commercialization of technologies that would reduce the carbon content of energy services consumed in the United States.

• » Regulatory Barriers to Lowering the Carbon Content of Energy Services
• » The White House Blog: Advancing Energy Innovation through Cross-Sector Partnerships
• » Kauffman Foundation: State and Local Regulatory Hurdles Can Slow Clean Energy Innovations
• » Department of Energy Announces $60 Million for Small Business Clean Energy Innovation Projects

September 8th, 2009

The Boston Review releases Victor and Morse's "Living With Coal"

David Victor and Richard Morse explain why coal, the world's fastest growing fossil fuel and leading source of greenhouse gas emissions, is here to stay and how climate policy can tackle this problem. Their piece is also featured in Engineering World's October/November 2009 issue.

• » Living With Coal: Climate Policy's Most Inconvenient Truth

August 15th, 2009

PESD releases new working paper on "finesse" and "game-changer" strategies for advancing carbon capture and storage

In a new PESD working paper, Robert A. James of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP classifies frontier project development strategies into "finesses" and "game-changers." James then considers the implications of this framework for the case of carbon capture and storage (CCS), where numerous legal, business and technological barriers seem to stand in the way of wide technology deployment.

• » Finesses and Game-Changers in Frontier Project Development: The Case of Carbon Capture and Storage