Events
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UPCOMING
- Morgan Bazilian will chair a panel on the Geopolitics of Energy at the 37th USAEE/IA North American Conference titled Energy Transitions in the 21st Century to be held November 3-6, 2019 in Denver.
- Morgan Bazilian will present at the upcoming 2019 Veterans Advanced Energy Summit: Where the future of energy meets national security on Tuesday, August 13, 2019 in Chicago.
- The Payne Institute will host the Denver Energy Dialogues. September 10, 2019.
- Book Launch – Power Trip: the Story of Energy. September 16, 2019.
Michael E. Webber, ENGIE - Payne Institute partners with NREL for the Open Energy Modeling North America Workshop. Open Energy Modeling (Open-Mod) workshop to discuss how to further the use of open data and open software tools in the energy modeling community. September 18-19, 2019.
MEETINGS
- We hosted the Denver Energy Dialogues. August 23, 2018.
- We hosted Israeli scientists and policymakers on a State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program.
2019 Seminar Archive
- Peak Anything: Are We Running Out of Exhaustible Resources. June 19, 2019.
Cameron Hepburn, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment - “Satellite-Detected Natural Gas Flaring” April 23, 2019.
Mark Davis & Alessandra Kortenhorst, CH4STOP - “From Limits to Growth to Planetary Boundaries: The Evolution of Economic Views on Natural Resource Scarcity
” April 26, 2019.Edward Barbier, Professor of Economics, Colorado State University - “Multi-Method Decision Modeling of Distributed Energy Resource Impacts on Electric Distribution Grids” May 7, 2019.
Cory Welch and James Milford, Lumidyne Consulting - Book Launch – Titans of the Climate March 21, 2019
Kelly Sims Gallagher, Energy and Environmental Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
View Slides - “Energy Perspectives 2018” March 18, 2019
Eirik Waerness, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Equinor.
View Slides - “The Renewable Power of the Mine” February 28, 2019.
Nicolas Maennling, Lead Economics and Policy Researcher, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
View Slide deck - “The Politics of Emission Policy in the US” February 27, 2019
Brian Efird, Senior Research Fellow and Program Director, Policy and Decision Science, KAPSARC
2018 Seminar Archive
- “Power System Planning and Markets” November 30, 2018.
Presented by Ben Hobbs, Johns Hopkins - “Energy Systems Integration” November 26, 2018.
Presented by Mark O’Malley, Senior Research Fellow, and Chief Scientist of Energy Systems Integration, NREL
View slide deck - “Panel Discussion: Pueblo’s Renewable Energy Transition” November 13, 2018.
Presented by Kathleen Staks, Executive Director, Colorado Energy Office - “Copper’s Role in the Energy Transition” November 7, 2018.
Presented by Andrea J. Vaccari, Director Health, Environment and Sustainable Development, International Copper Association
View slide deck - “United States Diplomacy and the Challenges Ahead” November 6, 2018.
Presented by Ambassador Christopher Hill, University of Denver, Joseph Korbel School of International Studies - “Oil on the Water – A Look at Security Concerns Relating to Hydrocarbons Activity in the Maritime Domain” November 2, 2018.
Presented by Dr. Ian M. Ralby, I.R. Consilium - “Does Half A Degree of Global Warming Matter?” October 29, 2018.
Presented by Brian O’Neill, University of Denver, Joseph Korbel School of International Studies
View slide deck - “The Emerging Economic, Environmental, and Geopolitical Implications of Changing U.S. Energy Trade” October 18, 2018.
Presented by Alex Gilbert, SparkLibrary
View slide deck - “Getting Published in a Leading Journal: Perspectives of Authors, Editors, and Publishers” October 8, 2018.
Presented by Adam Fraser, Elsevier
View slide deck - “Leading the Energy Transition” October 1, 2018.
Presented by Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
View slide deck part 1
View slide deck part 2 - “Energy in Africa” September 17, 2018.
Presented by Todd Moss, Center for Global Development - “The Oil-Climate Index” September 13, 2018.
Presented by Deborah Gordon, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
View slide deck - “The Role of Natural Gas in the Energy Transition” August 22, 2018.
Presented by Arvind Ravikumar, Stanford University
View slide deck - “RETScreen software and energy investment decision making” May 16, 2018.
Presented by Gregory Leng, Natural Resources Canada
View slide deck - “Weather-Informed Energy Systems Utilizing the WIS:dom Optimization Model” May 3, 2018.
Presented by Christopher Clack, CEO, Vibrant Clean Energy, LLC
View slide deck - “Ways of Price Making and the Problem of Markets in the U.S. Natural Gas Industry” April 26, 2018.
Presented by William Boyd, professor of law at University of Colorado Law School
Director of the Laboratory for Energy and Environmental Policy innovation
View seminar - “Climate Change and Inland Flood Risk in the Continental United States” April 17, 2018.
Presented by Cameron Wobus, principal scientist, Abt Associates
View seminar
View slide deck - “Fires, Flares, Boats, and Lights – Data Gems From a NOAA Weather Satellite” April 11, 2018.
Presented by Christopher D. Elvidge, PhD
NOAA‐NESDIS‐NCEI Earth Observation Group
View slide deck - “Vulnerability of the U.S. Electricity Grid to Climate and Water” April 5, 2018.
Presented by Jordan Macknick, Energy – Water – Land Lead Analyst
National Renewable Energy Laboratory - “Colorado’s Electric Sector” April 3, 2018.
Presented by Mark D. Safty, Wirth Chair in Sustainable Development
School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado, Denver
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View slide deck - “Energy in Colorado” March 22, 2018.
Presented by Andy Spielman, partner, co-partner-in-charge, Denver office
Chair, Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Practice at WilmerHale
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View slide deck - “Global Manufacturing and Trade of Renewable Energy Technologies” March 20, 2018.
Presented by Jill Engel-Cox, director, Clean Energy Manufacturing Analysis Center
Deputy director, Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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View slide deck - “Lessons from Australia on Clean Energy Opportunities and Challenges for Electricity Grids, Large and Small” March 1, 2018.
Presented by Iain MacGill, associate professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Australia
Joint director (engineering) UNSW Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets
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