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WEDNESDAY JULY 18
ECONOMIC MODELING: RESULTS, GAPS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
8:00 am Opening
Welcome - Tim Profeta, Director, Nicholas Institute
Overview/Mission of the Workshop - Brian Murray, Director for Economic Analysis, Nicholas InstituteInformation Needs of the Political and Regulatory Process
David McIntosh, Office of Senator Joseph Lieberman
Brian McLean, Director, Office of Atmospheric Programs, US Environmental Protection Agency
8:40 am Session 1: Bounding Analyses of Climate Bills
using Selected Models
Session Chair: Brian Murray, Nicholas Institute
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Henry Jacoby, MIT Joint Center on MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. Assessment of U.S. Cap and Trade Proposals.
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Martin Ross, RTI International. Assessing Cap-and-Trade Proposals at the Global, National, and Sub-national scales with the ADAGE Model.
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Ronald Sands. PNNL/U Maryland Joint Global Change Research Institute. Application of Second Generation Model (SGM) to US Cap and Trade Reference Scenarios.
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10:00 am – Break
10:15 am – Q&A
11:00 am Session 2: Federal
Agency Modeling and Analysis
Session Chair : Tim Profeta, Nicholas Institute
Francisco de la Chesnaye, US Environmental Protection Agency. Analysis of Climate Proposals Using Multiple Models (IGEM, ADAGE, and IPM).
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Alan Beamon and Howard Gruenspecht, Energy Information Administration (EIA). EIA Analysis of Climate Proposals Using National Energy Modeling System (NEMS).
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Q&A
12:30 pm LUNCH
1:30 pm Session 3: Defining the Technology Transition
Session Chair: Eric Williams, Nicholas Institute
Richard Richels, Electric Power Research Institute. Managing the Transition to Climate Stabilization (Merge model).
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Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M University. Linking Biofuel Supply and Demand using the FASOMGHG model.
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John (Skip) Laitner, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy. Incorporating End-use Energy Efficiency into CGE Models using AMIGA.
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Q&A
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Session 4:
Perspectives on the Models
Session Chair: Brian Murray, Nicholas Institute
Richard Newell, Duke University and Resources for the Future
Billy Pizer, Resources for the Future/National Commission on Energy Policy
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John Weyant, Stanford University
David Montgomery, Charles River Associates
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Q&A
5:30 pm Adjourn
Reception to follow
THURSDAY JULY 19
LINKING ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, MODELING AND COMPLEMENTARY
TECHNOLOGY POLICIES
8:30 am Session 5: Frontier Technologies – Opportunities
and Barriers: Technological, Economic, and Policy
Session Chair: Josiah Knight, Pratt School of
Engineering, Duke University
Jim Dooley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Carbon capture and storage.
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Doug Arent, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Advanced renewables
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Steve Plotkin, Argonne National Laboratory..Advanced transportation technologies.
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Michael Corradini, University of Wisconsin, Advanced nuclear technologies
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Q&A
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Session 6: Crafting Technology Policy
Session Chair: Tim Profeta, Nicholas Institute
Michal Moore, Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy, University of Calgary. The role of modeling in the regulatory process: providing incentives for developing and integrating new technology in the power industries to address climate change.
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Jon Anda, Environmental Markets Network. Carbon Markets, Financial Instruments and Induced Technical Change.
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Bill Bonvillian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Q&A
12:00 pm Closing Comments
12:30 pm Adjourn