Electricity Reforms in India: Firm Choices, Emerging Markets, and Externalities
With our partners at the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), PESD hosted a conference on the 23rd and 24th of Sept. in New Dehli focused on electricity market reforms in India and its effects on technologies and the environment.
Habitat Center
Lodhi Road
New Dehli, INDIA
Chi Zhang
Encina Hall E313
Stanford, CA 94305-6165
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czhang@stanford.edu
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PhD
Dr. Chi Zhang joined PESD in April 2002. He heads up the Program's studies of the Chinese electricity industry reforms. Dr. Zhang has been with IIS since 1998. He was a member of the China Energy and Global Environment Project under CISAC before joining PESD. Previously, he taught at Monterey Institute of International Studies, and was research associate with the Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C. and fellow with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, China.
Chi Zhang received his Ph.D. in economics from the Johns Hopkins University and MA in international economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He also attended Beijing Normal University.
Research Associate
David G. Victor
School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
UC San Diego
San Diego, CA
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david.victor@ucsd.edu
Professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and Director of the School’s new Laboratory on International Law and Regulation
Conferences
Electricity and the Human Prospect Conference
During the 20th century electricity spread from tiny islands of experimental service to become the world's most important energy carrier. The fraction of energy converted to electrons before consumption has risen inexorably and approaches 40% worldwide. Few would argue with the judgment of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering that electricity was the most important innovation of the past century. Electricity transformed homes, factories, and offices, the work we do, our health and comfort, and how we spend our time. How will electricity transform the 21st century?
More flexible and cleaner for the end-user than the coal, gas, and other sources of energy services that it replaced, electricity will likely be the form that 55%-60% of energy takes in four to five decades as more and new electrical machines appear in the market. How might life change as this imperial technology conquers new domains?
And what about the 1.6 billion people who today lack access to electricity? Will global electrification be achieved in the coming half century or even sooner? If some regions defy electrification, what are the reasons? How might electrification change occupations and lifestyles of the poor?
During a two-day workshop on the implications of global electrification, we aim to assemble a fresh picture of visions for electrification, its trends in time and space, and selected implications for health, environment, and social and economic organization. We are inviting diverse experts to comment on these issues from the vantage of their disciplines, practice, and research. We are asking each to talk about their current work, ideas, and speculations rather than commission new studies. The novelty of the meeting lies in the diversity of perspectives and the chance to contrast and integrate them. Global electrification is far advanced and may be nearly complete in the coming decades. What will it take, and what may result?
Oksenberg Conference Room
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