August 2004 Workshop on Energy Transitions
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Council on Foreign Relations
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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
Christine Todd Whitman
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Environmental Protections Agency
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Special Seminar on the Geopolitics of Natural Gas
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World natural gas consumption is projected to more than double by 2030 -- surpassing coal as the world's #2 energy resource. Plentiful reserves exist but surplus gas supplies are far removed from future demand centers -- necessitating major investments in gas transport infrastructures. The growing importance of natural gas imports to modern economies will force new thinking about energy security.
The two-year collaborative study between Stanford PESD and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University includes seven historical case studies of built cross-border gas trade projects and economic modeling of global natural gas markets. The project aims to assess key factors affecting decision-making in large gas infrastructure investments and to then utilize these results to inform analysis of prospective developments in the world gas trade.
The seminar serves as a prelude to the Geopolitics of Gas Conference co-hosted by the Stanford Program on Energy and Sustainable Development and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University to be held May 26-27, 2004 in Houston, Texas.
Bishop Auditorium, Graduate School of Business
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
Mark H. Hayes
Encina Hall E419-B
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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mark.hayes@gmail.com
Research Fellow
Mark H. Hayes was recently a Research Fellow with the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD). He lead PESD's research on global natural gas markets, including studies of the growing trade in liquefied natural gas (LNG) and the future for gas demand growth in China.
Dr. Hayes has developed models to analyze the impact of growing LNG imports on U.S. and European gas markets with special attention to seasonality and the opportunity for arbitrage using LNG ships and regasification capacity. From 2002 to 2005, Dr. Hayes managed the Geopolitics of Natural Gas Project, a study of critical political and financial factors affecting investment in cross-border gas trade projects. The study culminated in an edited book volume published by Cambridge University Press.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Mark worked as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York City. He was a member of the Global Power and Utilities Group, where he was involved in mergers and acquisitions, financing and corporate restructuring.
In 2006 he completed his Ph.D. in the Interdisciplinary Program on Environment and Resources at Stanford University. After completing his Ph.D. at Stanford, Mark has taken a position at RREEF Infrastructure Investments, San Francisco, CA. Mark also has a B.A. in Geology from Colgate University and an M.A. in International Policy Studies from Stanford. From 1999 to 2002 he served on the Board of Trustees of Colgate University.
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Ale Nunez
PESD
Stanford University
616 Serra Street
Encina Hall East, Rm. 420
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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alenunez@stanford.edu
Ale Núñez was a Research Fellow at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development. At PESD, her research focused on foreign investment in independent power projects in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Her academic interests include privatization and regulation of water and electricity infrastructure in Latin American countries, as well as economic history, sociology and legal theory.
Ale holds a Master of Laws (LL.M, 2003) from Harvard University, where she was research assistant to Duncan Kennedy, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence. She graduated with honors from ITAM (LL.B, 2001), after having been research assistant to the Dean of the Law School, Dr. José Ramón Cossío Díaz, now an Associate Justice at the Mexican Supreme Court. She also worked in the litigation department of Morrison & Foerster LLP in Palo Alto, California, on patent infringement claims and political asylum cases, and was an active member of the firmwide Latin America Practice Group on Finance and Infrastructure.
In her spare time, Ale directs travel videos featuring Mexico, her native country. Her work is available at public libraries and retail stores throughout the US, and at www.alexandratravel.com.
PESD Research Fellow
Emeka Duruigbo
CESP
Stanford University
Encina Hall East, Rm. 415
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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duruigbo@stanford.edu
Emeka Duruigbo is Research Fellow at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development and a SPILS Fellow at Stanford Law School where he is working on designing institutions for managing oil revenues for socio-economic development in Nigeria. He is licensed to practice law in Nigeria and California and has a broad experience that cuts across business, law and academia. At PESD, he is examining the potential for international gas trade and investment in sub-Saharan Africa, with a special focus on advanced LNG and pipeline projects.
Emeka received an LL.B. from the University of Benin and a professional certificate from the Nigerian Law School. He also holds an LL.M. from the University of Alberta and an S.J.D. from Golden Gate University.
PESD Research Fellow
Erik Woodhouse
Encina Hall East, E415
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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erik.j.woodhouse@gmail.com
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Erik Woodhouse is a post-Doctoral scholar with the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development. His current research focuses on energy infrastructure investment in developing countries. Other recent research includes work in comparative corporate governance and law and international relations.
Mr. Woodhouse holds a J.D. from Stanford University and a B.A. from Emory University in International Studies and Philosophy.
Postdoctoral Scholar
Pei Yee Woo
Encina Hall East, E415
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
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wpy@stanfordalumni.org
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Pei Yee is a Research Fellow with the Program of Energy and Sustainable Development. Her current research focuses on investment issues in the global energy sector. Admitted to the bar in both Singapore and California, she was trained as an attorney in international transactions involving infrastructure privatization, investment and financing. She will be undertaking her doctoral dissertation with Stanford Law School, and she is currently a Chartered Financial Analyst candidate.
Pei Yee holds a J.S.M. from the Stanford Law School Program in International Legal Studies, and an LL.B. from the National University of Singapore.
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University receives $2 million to study energy markets
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The BP Foundation has awarded a three-year, $1.95 million grant to Stanford University for a broad research program on modern energy markets. The foundation is funded by BP, formerly British Petroleum, one of the world's largest energy companies. The gift will support the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at the Stanford Institute for International Studies(SIIS).
The BP Foundation has awarded a three-year, $1.95 million grant to Stanford University for a broad research program on modern energy markets. The foundation is funded by BP, formerly British Petroleum, one of the world's largest energy companies. The gift will support the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at the Stanford Institute for International Studies (SIIS). With the gift, BP joins the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, CA, as one of the program's core sponsors.
"This new partnership with BP will allow the program to accelerate research in several areas, including the design and operation of market-based policies to address the threats of global warming," said program director %people2%. "In addition to BP Foundation support, we look forward to learning more from BP's own experience as an energy company, which touches on every aspect of our program's research."
The agreement reflects a commitment by BP and Stanford to complement technical research with similar work on the legal, political and institutional dimensions of how societies derive value from energy, he added.
"Stanford University is undertaking ground-breaking research with the potential to have a profound impact on the organization of modern energy markets and the conduct of environmental policy," said Greg Coleman, BP's group vice president for environment, health, safety and security. "We hope that this is just the first step in a relationship which will become broader and deeper."
The agreement with Stanford is the latest in a series of BP partnerships with universities in the United Kingdom, the United States and China representing a total commitment of more than $100 million, according to BP officials. The Stanford agreement is expected to complement work under way at Princeton University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua University, company officials added.
Founded in 2001, the SIIS Program on Energy and Sustainable Development focuses on the political, legal and institutional aspects of modern energy services, in collaboration with faculty from the Stanford School of Law and several university departments, including political science and economics. About half of the program's resources are devoted to research partnerships in key developing countries, including Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa. Program researchers have examined the emergence of a global business in natural gas, reforms of electric power markets and the supply of modern energy services to low-income rural households in developing countries.
The program is housed in the Center for Environmental Science and Policy - one of five major research centers at SIIS, the university's primary forum for interdisciplinary research on international issues and challenges.
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The influence of large-scale wind-power on global climate
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Large scale use of wind power can alter local and global climate by extracting kinetic energy and by modifying turbulent transport in the atmospheric boundary layer. We explored the climatic impacts of extracting 3-20 TW of electricity with a suite of numerical experiments using two independent atmospheric GCMs and to parameterizations of the wind-turbine arrays. Wind power has a negligible effect on global-mean surface temperature, but at continental scales, the average magnitude of climatic change due to wind power can be significant in comparison to the reduction in climatic change achieved by the substitution of wind or fossil-fuels.
Goldman Conference Room, Forth Floor Encina Hall East
David Keith
Associate Professor of Engineering and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
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
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