Please join the 21st Century Energy Transition for the Transformations: Energy, Infrastructure, eMobility Conference on Thursday, November 18, 2021 from 8:00am – 10:30am (MT).

Topic of the Day – eMobility, Hydrogen, Infrastructure and Smart City Perspectives

The alternatives to the current organization of cities and the existing infrastructure must transform in the direction of becoming more integrated and agile. Strategic planning needs a clear understanding of the decarbonization challenge. How significant is the role of the hydrogen as a potential fuel of the transformation period – these fuels and many more?

Please join ADIPEC and the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Dr. Morgan D. Bazilian, Payne Institute Director and Professor of Public Policy, presenting a seminar titled By 2040 EVS Will Account for 75% of Global Vehicle Sales, While Fossil Fuel Cars will Start to Disappear from the Market on Tuesday, November 16, 2021 from 2:45am – 3:45am (MT).

The debate over the future of transport appears to be shifting significantly in favor of EVs. A number of car manufacturers are committing to ending the production of internal combustion engine vehicles over the next 15 years, and emissions regulations in many developed countries are tightening. But the penetration of EVs still face some challenges in the short-term, including higher costs and charging availability, which creates barriers to the pace at which their market share will grow.

The combination of technology, policy, infrastructure and investment will determine the trajectory of the growth in EV numbers. It will also determine what role hydrocarbons play in the transport sector and the pace at which demand declines. What is the future of mobility? And how will the transport sector evolve over the next 20 years?

Session Speakers:

Dr. Jean-Luc di Paola Galloni , Corporate Vice-President Sustainable Development and External Affairs, Valeo Group, Operational Vice-Chairman, ERTRAC
Dr. Morgan D. Bazilian, Director and Professor of Public Policy, Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines as we welcome Amy Myers Jaffe, Managing Director, Climate Policy Lab and Research Professor at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, presenting a virtual book launch titled Energy’s Digital Future – Harnessing Innovation for American Resilience and National Security on Thursday, November 11, 2021 from 9:00am – 10:00am (MT).

Disruptive digital technologies are poised to reshape world energy markets. A new wave of industrial innovation, driven by the convergence of automation, artificial intelligence, and big data analytics, is remaking energy and transportation systems in ways that could someday end the age of oil. What are the consequences—not only for the environment and for daily life but also for geopolitics and the international order?

Amy Myers Jaffe provides an expert look at the promises and challenges of the future of energy, highlighting what the United States needs to do to maintain its global influence in a post-oil era. She surveys new advances coming to market in on-demand travel services, automation, logistics, energy storage, artificial intelligence, and 3-D printing and explores how this rapid pace of innovation is altering international security dynamics in fundamental ways. As the United States vacillates politically about its energy trajectory, China is proactively striving to become the global frontrunner in a full-scale global energy transformation. In order to maintain its leadership role, Jaffe argues, the United States must embrace the digital revolution and foster American achievement. Bringing together analyses of technological innovation, energy policy, and geopolitics, Energy’s Digital Future gives indispensable insight into the path the United States will need to pursue to ensure its lasting economic competitiveness and national security in a new energy age.

Amy Myers Jaffe is author of Energy’s Digital Future: Harnessing Innovation for American Resilience and National Security and managing director of the Climate Policy Lab and a research professor at The Fletcher School at Tufts University. A leading expert on global energy policy and sustainability, Jaffe has taught international energy policy, business, and sustainability courses at Tufts University, Rice University, University of California Davis and Yale University. A frequent media commentator, Jaffe was 2020 president of the US Association for Energy Economics and holds a Senior Fellow award from that organization for her career contributions to the field of energy economics and is a member of the Global Future Council on Net Zero Transition at the World Economic Forum (Davos).

Link to the book page.

Please join the 21st Century Energy Transition for the Transformations: Energy, Infrastructure, eMobility Conference on Thursday, November 11, 2021 from 8:00am – 10:30am (MT).

Topic of the Day – IT infrastructure and Cybersecurity · R&D, Innovations, Competitiveness, Project Pipeline

The potential for identifying and preventing cyber-attacks on critical energy infrastructure, how to develop sustainable solutions both from an economical and technical perspective are in the focus of this panel. The investment potential and the role of the financial institutions for boosting the process is a strategic point for the decision makers in Europe and the U.S.

Please join the 21st Century Energy Transition for the Transformations: Energy, Infrastructure, eMobility Conference on Thursday, November 4, 2021 from 8:00am – 10:30am (MT).

Topic of the Day – Transformation of the Critical Energy Infrastructure

The demand for increasing the power supply for the needs of eMobility is requesting an urgent analysis of the potential of the grid including the perspectives in medium – and long-term vision. The coordination between the scientific and the industrial sectors on one side and the public authorities on the other is a significant challenge and therefore it requires a strategic approach.

Please join the Mines Faculty Senate for their Distinguished Lecture Series as they welcome Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Dr. Carolyn Koh, William K. Coors Distinguished Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, presenting a virtual seminar titled The Promise and Challenges of Gas Hydrates on Thursday, October 28, 2021 from 4:00pm – 5:00pm (MT).

Gas hydrates are ice-like solids comprised of a crystalline lattice of hydrogen-bonded water cages that can trap small gas molecules, such as methane and carbon dioxide. Understanding and controlling the gas hydrate crystal growth processes and interfacial interactions is important in several energy applications, including mitigating the potential environmental impacts during fuel production and transportation. Gas hydrates can present major safety, economic, and environmental hazards when they form and block flowlines producing and transporting oil and natural gas. Conversely, gas hydrate technologies may be developed for energy storage of fuels or carbon capture in gas hydrate crystals, or as an alternative potential energy resource from naturally occurring hydrate deposits.

Carolyn A. Koh is the William K. Coors Distinguished Chair & Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Director of the Center for Hydrate Research (annual income >$1.5M) at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM). She was the interim Department Head of Chemical & Biological Engineering (May-Aug 2019). She obtained her BSc and Ph.D. degrees from University of W. London and postdoctoral training at Cornell University. She was a Reader at King’s College, London University before joining CSM. She has been visiting Professor at Cornell, Penn State and London University. She was a consultant for the Gas Research Institute in Chicago and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Associate Editor of the Society for Petroleum Engineers Journal, Chair of the US DOE Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee, and served on the US Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, and many more. She was elected Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Gas Hydrates in 2018 and was the Chair of the International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH9) in 2017. She has established internationally recognized gas hydrate research programs over the last two decades at King’s College, University of London and the Colorado School of Mines. She has received several awards, including the Young Scientist Award of the British Association for Crystal Growth, ConocoPhillips Faculty Award (2010-2012), CSM Young Faculty Research Excellence Award (2012), Dean’s Award (2016), Distinguished Lecturer Award (2021). Also recently, IChemE Guggenheim Medal 2021. Guggenheim Medal – IChemE. Yeram S. Touloukian Award 2021. Yeram S. Touloukian Award – ASME. She has over 200 publications (Google Scholar h-index: 71, citations: 27,149).

Please join the Mining Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines as they welcome Payne Institute Faculty Fellow Dr. H. Şebnem Düzgün, Professor and Fred Banfield Distinguished Endowed Chair of the Mining Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines presenting a live and virtual seminar titled Big Data and AI in Mine Safety on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 from 4:00pm – 5:00pm MT.

Dr. Düzgün will present four AI technologies developed by her research team. These technologies integrate Big Data Analytics approaches and provide predictive solutions for enhancing mine safety. She will first explain an AI-based hazard detection system for predicting roof fall hazards. Then she will present an AI system developed for near-real-time methane detection for underground coal mines. Dr. Düzgün will demonstrate an autonomous object detection system for lidar applications in underground mine mapping. Additionally, she will show the initial findings of a bat-vision system, which relies on AI and augmented reality, developed for supporting search and rescue personnel for overcoming difficulties due to degraded sensing, communications, darkness, smoke, dust.

Dr. H. Şebnem Düzgün is a Professor and Fred Banfield Distinguished Endowed Chair of the Mining Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM). She has also joint faculty appointment in the Department of Computer Science at CSM. Dr. Düzgün has an international reputation for a broad range of topics including big data and AI in the mining life cycle, probabilistic modeling of engineered and natural rock slopes and quantitative risk assessment, analysis and management of risks associated with geotechnical hazards and tailing dam failures, mine environmental monitoring using remote sensing, virtual/augmented/mixed reality and serious gaming for technical training and collaborative decision making. She authored four books and published over 250 papers.

Please join the Payne Institute for Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Tech as we welcome Gosia Nowakowska-Miller, Allison Forrest, Kristi Disney Bruckner, Allison Coppel, and Sharon Flynn presenting a seminar titled ESG in the Field on Tuesday, October 26 from noon-2pm MT.  This event will not be recorded.  

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards are becoming the norm in the mining and metals industries. But what does this actually mean for investors, corporations, and civil society? How is attention to ESG shaping investments and influencing corporate behavior? 

Did you know? ESG performance is key for the mining and metals industries to reach their long-term business goals, improve their relations with stakeholders and local communities, boost their brand value and recognition, and contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals. 

We’ll hear from some of the leading voices:

Gosia Nowakowska-Miller, Operations Officer, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Allison Forrest, Responsible Investment Officer, Resource Capital Funds (RCF)
Kristi Disney Bruckner, Senior Policy Advisor, Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA)
Allison Coppel, Director Value Assurance, Newmont Mining
Sharon Flynn, EVP Sustainability, Oceana Gold