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Stanford-Woods Energy Seminar - Winter 2010
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Global Climate Architectural Policy January 6, 2010 John Weyant, Professor (Research) of Management Science and Engineering Targets for climate policies at the national and international levels were very poorly assessed, evaluated and communicated prior to the Copenhagen climate summit, and now urgently need to be re-analyzed. Using the results of the recent Energy Modeling Forum Global, US and EU climate policy model comparison exercises as points of departure, this talk looks at what kinds of formal and informal global climate policy agreements might be desirable and/or feasible. The relationship between global objectives and national and international policy architectures is crucial, but often ignored or done inconsistently. We take a hard look here at the large gap in public discourse that currently exists between what might be desirable and what might actually be feasible. We end with a set of pragmatic suggestions for how to proceed. The old policy initiatives did not work, but promising new ideas are emerging, so the need to at least keep the accounting straight has never been more important. Despite their immense popularity, “aspirational” goals and objectives have not, are not and will not ever work. Source: http://energyseminar.stanford.edu/node/207 |
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Demystifying and De-Jargoning the Smart Grid January 13, 2010 Efran Ibrahim, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Erfan Ibrahim is a Technical Executive in the Intelligrid program area of the Power Delivery & Utilization Sector. He leads the research that focuses on the communications, systems management and cyber security infrastructure for the utility Smart Grid with particular emphasis on Home Area Networks (HAN), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Internet based Wide Area Networking. Before joining EPRI, Dr. Ibrahim founded and managed The Bit Bazaar LLC (TBB), a full service IT and business consulting firm, offering services to clients in the High Tech, Financial Services, and Energy sectors. At TBB Dr. Ibrahim focused on wireless communications, network management, and information security technologies with a particular emphasis on aligning the IT goals of his clients with their business goals for sustained competitive advantage. Prior to establishing The Bit Bazaar LLC, Dr. Ibrahim’s career included the following positions: VP of Sales & Marketing at Jyra Research, Product Manager for Network Management at Pacific Bell Network Integration (now AT&T), Science and Math Lecturer at National University, Nuclear Fusion Research Engineer at UCLA and Plasma Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Source: http://energyseminar.stanford.edu/node/181 |
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U.S. Shale Gas: From Resources and Reserves to Carbon Isotope Anomalies January 20, 2010 John Curtis, Potential Gas Agency, Colorado School of Mines Professor Curtis will discuss shale gas resource assessments, possible roadblocks to future shale gas production and the use of gas geochemistry for discovery and development of this potential resource. Abstract: U.S. shale gas drilling dates from 1821 and accounts for 7% of annual production. The U. S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimated that shale gas production would overtake coalbed methane production by 2025, and grow to 2.3 Tcf annually by 2030. Some Industry analysts, apparently using Delphi-type studies, claim that shale gas will account for 50% (~11 Tcf) ) of U.S. gas production within the next 10 years. The recent EIA 2009 reserves report stated that shale gas comprises 13% (33 Tcf) of proved reserves, an indicator of significant well productivity. In addition to measured contributions to production and proved reserves, shale gas is also an important component of future, technically recoverable resources. The upward trends in these three categories are due to improvements in exploration, completion and production technologies, aided at times by wellhead price increases. These factors have combined to transform what was previously recognized as gas-in-place to potential resource. For example, the latest Potential Gas Committee biennial assessment (June 2009), showed an overall increase of 39% (515 Tcf) for total U.S. gas resources. The bulk of this increase was for shale gas resources assessed in 12 basins. Shale gas is receiving significant attention from operators and researchers in Canada and Europe. Shale gas also presents interpretive challenges at the molecular level. Stable carbon isotope compositions of natural gases allow for the identification of petroleum "families", detection of seals and overpressure, and provide evidence of migrated thermogenic gas accumulations. In shale gas plays, where the source rock is also the reservoir, carbon isotopes of ethane and propane are strong thermal maturity indicators and can be accurately calibrated against measured vitrinite reflectance values. Stable carbon isotopes become increasingly heavier (more positive) with increasing maturity. However, in certain shale gas plays (including the Haynesville, Barnett, Fayetteville, Woodford and Marcellus) an interesting phenomenon occurs at high maturity where the ethane and propane isotope values begin to reverse and become lighter (more negative) than methane values. A key observation is that many of these "isotopically reversed" wells appear to be the most productive. Gas isotopic compositions are also used as a proxy for shale porosity and permeability. Large carbon isotopic shifts between mud and cuttings gases correlate with zones of increased porosity and permeability. In conjunction with traditional logs, these data can be used to guide horizontal drilling and select completion intervals. This talk will discuss shale gas resource assessments, possible roadblocks to future shale gas production and the use of gas geochemistry for discovery and development of this potential resource. Bio: John B. Curtis is Professor of Geology and Geological Engineering and Director, Petroleum Exploration and Production Center/Potential Gas Agency at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Curtis is also co-director of the CSM Unconventional Natural Gas Institute. He received a B. A. (1970) and M.Sc. (1972) in geology from Miami University and a Ph.D. (1989) in geology from The Ohio State University. He is a licensed Professional Geologist (Wyoming). Dr. Curtis has been at the Colorado School of Mines since July, 1990. He had 15 years prior experience in the petroleum industry with Texaco, Inc., SAIC, Columbia Gas, and Brown & Ruth Laboratories/Baker-Hughes. He serves on and has chaired several professional society and natural gas industry committees, which previously included the Supply Panel, Research Coordination Council, and the Science and Technology Committee of the Gas Technology Institute (Gas Research Institute). He co-chaired the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Committee on Unconventional Petroleum Systems from 1999-2004 and is an invited member of the AAPG Committee on Resource Evaluation. He was a Counselor to the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists from 2002-2004. Curtis is an Associate Editor of the AAPG Bulletin and The Mountain Geologist. He has published studies and given numerous invited talks concerning hydrocarbon source rocks, exploration for unconventional reservoirs, and the size and distribution of U.S., Canadian and Mexican natural gas resources and comparisons of resource assessment methodologies. As Director of the Potential Gas Agency, he directs a team of 145 geologists, geophysicists and petroleum engineers in their biennial assessment of remaining U.S. natural gas resources. He teaches petroleum geology, petroleum geochemistry, integrated exploration and petroleum design at the Colorado School of Mines, where he also supervises graduate student research. Source: http://energyseminar.stanford.edu/node/177 |
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Extending the Grid: Transmission Siting Issues and How to Resolve Them January 27, 2010 Suedeen Kelly, Former Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Abstract: In energy planning circles, in all sectors of the electric industry, in state utility regulatory commissions, and on Capitol Hill, weâ |
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Integrating More Than 50% Wind on the Grid: A Case Study February 3, 2010 Marija Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University In this lecture we pose the problem of sustainable electricity services as a novel systems engineering design problem. We briefly summarize today's operating and planning practices and explain why these need fundamental changing in order to enable qualitatively different electricity services. In particular, we suggest that many new resources have characteristics, which are not generally known to the system operators, and are, therefore, currently not relied on for managing supply and demand in an often-congested electric network. The new resources are also highly variable and, as such, do not lend themselves to static feed-forward scheduling without near-real time automated feedback. Instead, a transformation of this operating and planning mode into an interactive multi-temporal, multi-spatial and multi-contextual system management is needed to accommodate ever-changing system conditions, often driven by many distributed actions. In order to enable a complex system with often-conflicting functionalities, such as reliability, security, short- and long-term efficiency, and sustainability, one must rely on prediction, adaptation and adjustments by all. We introduce a Dynamic Monitoring and Decision Systems (DYMONDS) framework as one such possible interactive framework in support of on-line sensing and decision making at various industry layers capable of meeting multiple metrics. Notably, the framework aligns the choice-driven sub-objectives by the customers and energy providers with the social objectives. As an illustration, we provide a DYMONDS-enabled solution to efficient integration of large wind and solar power in coordination with demand-side response. Finally, we illustrate how technological, economic and regulatory signals within the proposed framework converge making the industry evolution sustainable in the broadest sense of the word. |
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Controlling Climate Change after Copenhagen February 10, 2010 Bert Metz, former co-chair IPCC Working Group on Mitigation of Climate Change, author of "Controlling Climate Change", and advisor to the European Climate Foundation. Bert Metz discusses his new book, Controlling Climate Change, which provides an unbiased and comprehensive overview, based on the latest findings of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Using no jargon, it looks at tackling and adapting to man-made climate change, and works through the often confusing potential solutions. He provides a cutting edge assessment of issues at the top of the political agenda, covering scenarios to limit the consequences of warming to manageable proportions, transitions to a low carbon and climate resilient economy, the most important measures in the various economic sectors and their potential costs. The implications of the poor results of the 2009 Copenhagen Summit will also be discussed. Bert Metz – Former Co-chair of the Working Group on Mitigation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Bert Metz has vast experience in the field of climate change policy. He served as the co-ordinator of climate policy at the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment and chief negotiator for the Netherlands and the European Union in the international climate change negotiations from 1992-1998. He was elected co-chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group on climate change mitigation for the IPCC Third Assessment Report (1997-2002) and re-elected for the Fourth Assessment Report (2002-2008; in which period the IPCC received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize). At the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency from 1998-2005, he led the group on climate change and global sustainability, publishing a large series of national and international policy analyses on climate change and sustainability. Early 2008 he spent 3 months as a visiting scholar at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment. Since retiring, he is serving as advisor to the European Climate Foundation and other organisations. In 2009 he received the European Practitioner Achievement Award in applying environmental economics from the European Association for Environmental and Resource Economists. Source: http://energyseminar.stanford.edu/node/197 |
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The Energy Challenge and the Case for Fusion February 17, 2010 Chris Llewellyn Smith, President of the Council of SESAME (Synchrontron Light for Experimental Science and its Applications in the Middle East), Vice President of the Royal Society, Visiting Professor at Oxford University Providing adequate food, water and energy for the world’s rising population, in the face of looming climate change and (in the longer-term) depletion of fossil fuels, is the greatest challenge of the 21st century. Provision of adequate energy is the key, necessary, condition for meeting the challenge. The developed world could survive perfectly well with less energy, but an increase is needed to lift billions out of poverty in the developing world, where a quarter of the world’s population lacks electricity. Meeting future demand will be difficult enough: meeting it in an environmentally responsible manner will be an enormous challenge. I will review the nature of the challenge and the portfolio of measures that must be adopted if it is to be met. These include greater efficiency, the deployment of carbon capture and storage (if feasible), expansion of the use of renewable energy sources to the maximum extent reasonably possible, and major expansion of nuclear power. In the second half of the century major contributions will be needed from nuclear power (in the longer term: thorium and/or fast breeder reactors), and/or solar power, and/or fusion: all must be developed as a matter of urgency. I will put special emphasis on fusion, which is still in the development phase, because of its enormous potential, and because I have been working on fusion. The technical challenge is enormous, but the political and economic challenges are even greater. Bio: Chris Llewellyn Smith is a theoretical physicist. He is currently President of the Council of SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and its Applications in the Middle East), a Vice President of the Royal Society, and a Visiting Professor in the Oxford Physics Department. He has served as Chairman of the Council of ITER (2007-09) and of the Consultative Committee for Euratom on Fusion (2004-09), and was Director of UKAEA Culham (2003-2008), with responsibility for the UK's fusion program and for operation of the Joint European Torus (JET). He was Provost and President of University College London (1999 - 2002), Director General of CERN (1994 - 1998), and Chairman of Oxford Physics (1987 - 1992). While at Culham he developed and vigorously promoted the ‘Fast Track’ approach to the development of fusion power, which has been officially adopted by the European Commission. During his mandate as DG of CERN the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was approved and started, and the Large Electron Positron Collider (LEP) was successfully upgraded. After completing his Doctorate in Oxford in 1967, he worked briefly in the Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, before spending periods at CERN and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, after which he returned to Oxford in 1974. Chris Llewellyn Smith has written and spoken widely on science funding, international scientific collaboration and energy issues. His scientific contributions and leadership have been recognized by awards and honors in seven countries on three continents. Source: http://energyseminar.stanford.edu/node/211 |
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COP15 and the Stanford Student Experience February 24, 2010 Stephen Schneider, Melvin & Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, and Senior Fellow at Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University Stephen H. Schneider is the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Biology Professor, and a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. He was an NCAR scientist from 1973-1996, where he co-founded the Climate Project. Schneider focuses on climate change science, integrated assessment of ecological and economic impacts of human-induced climate change, and identifying viable climate policies and technological solutions. He has consulted for federal agencies and White House staff in six administrations. Involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1988, he was a Coordinating Lead Author, Working Group II, Chapter 19, "Assessing Key Vulnerabilities and the Risk from Climate Change" and a Synthesis author for the Fourth Assessment Report. He along with four generations of IPCC authors received a collective Nobel Peace Prize for their joint efforts in 2007. Elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 2002, Schneider received the American Association for the Advancement of Science/ Westinghouse Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology and a MacArthur Fellowship for integrating and interpreting the results of global climate research. Founder/Editor of Climatic Change, he has authored or co-authored over 500 books, scientific papers, proceedings, legislative testimonies, edited books and chapters, reviews and editorials. Schneider counsels policy makers, corporate executives, and non-profit stakeholders about using risk management strategies in climate-policy decision-making, given the uncertainties in future projections of global climate change and climate impacts. He is actively engaged in improving public understanding of science and the environment through extensive media appearances and communications and public outreach. |
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China's Growing Global Influence: A Solar Energy Perspective March 3, 2010 Reyad Fezzani, Chief Executive Officer, BP Solar Reyad Fezzani is CEO of BP Solar, a pioneering, global solar energy company of BP. Reyad has lived and worked in many parts of the world from which he has developed a deep knowledge and understanding of global business and economics. He will speak from first-hand experience about the peaceful rise of Chinese capitalism, including its recent and growing influence in the solar energy industry. Reyad Fezzani, Chief Executive Officer, BP Solar Reyad Fezzani is the Chief Executive Officer, BP Solar. He runs the largest and most established renewable energy business in BP’s Alternative Energy portfolio. He is also Chairman of Tata BP Solar, a 20-year old Indian joint venture. BP Solar is a global company with around 2200 employees in ten countries. It designs, manufactures and markets solar products for use in the residential, commercial, industrial and utility sectors. With over 35 years of experience, BP Solar is one of the world's leading solar companies. BP Solar has a solar cell and module manufacturing plant in Bangalore, India; casting, wafering and cell manufacturing in Frederick, MD, USA; and module manufacturing in Xi’an, China. BP Solar annually invests millions of dollars in photovoltaic research and development. Prior to this role, Reyad was the Chief Executive Officer, BP Global Chemicals business Aromatics & Acetyls (A&A) based in Hong Kong. Reyad was also the Head of the Executive Office of the Group Chief Executive, Lord Browne of Madingley at the time when BP launched its Alternative and Renewables Energy business. He supported all aspects of the Group Chief Executive agenda, internally and externally, and was a member of the management committee of the BP Group. Since joining BP in 1989, Reyad has held a number of senior operational and commercial roles across the BP Group. These include Senior Vice-President, US Fuels Marketing; Vice-President, Europe Supply & Logistics; Vice-President of Government & Public Affairs in Exploration and Production (E&P); Project Leader, Mergers & Acquisitions for E&P in Europe and on staff of BP Finance. He has worked for BP in China, Europe, North Africa and the US. Reyad holds a Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering and Chemical Technology from Imperial College, London. He is a Chartered Engineer, and a Fellow of the Institute of Chemical Engineers, the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and the Energy Institute. He also is a Board Director of the Bay Area Council in San Francisco, CA. He is married with three children. Source: http://energyseminar.stanford.edu/node/203 |
