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The Distributional Effects of Distributed Generation
Shelley Welton
Assistant Professor of Law, Univ. of South Carolina
11/2/18
The Difficulty of Siting Pipelines and Transmission Lines
James Coleman
Associate Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
11/2/18
Cost-Benefit Analysis, “Secret Science,” and OIRA Reviews of Rulemaking
Sheila Olmstead
Professor of Public Affairs, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, President’s Council of Economic Advisors, 2016-17 Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center
11/2/18
Environmental Privileging
Sharon Jacobs
Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School, Board of the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources
11/2/18
“Naïve Energy Markets” and the boundary between markets and regulation
David Spence
Baker Botts Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law, Professor of Business, Government & Society, McCombs School of Business
11/2/18
Network Infrastructure: Permitting and Eminent Domain
Alexandra Klass
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota Law School
12/14/18
California's Energy Transition: Decarbonization and Decentralization
Michael Wara
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment & Fellow, Stanford Law School
12/14/18
The Best Route to Net-Zero Emissions
Jessie Jenkins
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Fellow, Harvard University Center for the Environment
2/21/19
The Politics of Carbon Taxes vs. Regulation
Nathan Richardson
Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law
March, 2019
Modeling the Evolution of a Greener Grid
David Adelman
Harry Reasoner Regents Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law
April 3, 2019
Market Solutions to Reliability Challenges in Electricity Markets
Frank Wolak
Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies, Director, Program on Energy & Sustainable Development Stanford University
April 4, 2019
Maintaining Reliability in a Distributed Energy World
Amy Stein
Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
April 4, 2019
Net Metering and the Value of Distributed Solar Generation
Joel Eisen & Shelley Welton
Joel Eisen is Professor of Law, Univ. of Richmond. Shelley Welton is Asst. Prof. of Law, University of South Carolina.
April 5, 2019
The Politics of Siting New Energy Infrastructure
David Spence
Baker Botts Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law, Professor of Business, Government & Society, McCombs School of Business
April 10, 2019
Tinkering with Energy Tradeoffs Online
Joshua Rhodes
Research Associate, University of Texas Energy Institute
April 10, 2019
Energy Poverty and the Green Transition
Dana Harmon
Executive Director, Texas Energy Poverty Research Institute
April 16, 2019
'Public Utility' -- Steering Competitive Energy Markets Toward Public Ends
William Boyd
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law & UCLA Institute of Environment & Sustainability
April 18, 2019
Long-term storage needs, ‘green gases,’ & the energy transition
Todd Davidson
Research Associate, University of Texas Energy Institute
April 24, 2019
Intensive Energy Development (Oil & Gas, Wind & Solar) in West Texas
Melinda Taylor
Senior Lecturer, University of Texas School of Law
April 29, 2019
Capacity Markets, Green Energy Subsidies & State-Federal Jurisdictional Conflicts
Ari Peskoe
Director, Harvard Electricity Law Initiative & Lecturer, Harvard Law School
May 13, 2019
Regional Differences in RTO Governance and Decision-making
Elizabeth Wilson
Director, Arthur L. Irving Center for Energy and Society, Dartmouth University
May 16, 2019
Fossil Fuels and the Risk Profile of Fracking
Daniel Raimi
Research Associate, Resources for the Future & Lecturer, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, U. of Michigan
May 22, 2019
Economic Growth, Inequality & Decarbonization
Carey King
Research Scientist & Assistant Director, University of Texas Energy Institute
May 24, 2019
Reliability and Renewables in Competitive Energy Markets
Joshua Macey
Visiting Assistant Professor, Cornell Law School
June 10, 2019
The Politics of Technology Transitions
Leah Stokes
Assistant Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara Dept of Political Science, and Bren School of Environmental Science & Management
June 4, 2019
Modeling Decarbonization in the West
Arne Olson
Senior Partner, E3
June 12, 2019
Energy Poverty, Energy Burden and Rooftop Solar
Victoria Mandell
GRID Alternatives Colorado
June, 2019
Deep Decarbonization -- Legal Impediments to Massive Renewables Build-Out
Michael Gerrard
Andrew Sabin Professor of Practice & Director, Sabin Center on Climate Change, Columbia Law School
July, 2019
Social License and Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Kristen van de Biezenbos
Assistant Professor, University of Calgary Faculty of Law and Haskayne School of Business
July, 2019
Energy Justice
Sanya Carley
Professor, Indiana University O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs
July, 2019
Energy Realism
Monika Ehrman
Professor, University of Oklahoma School of Law
July, 2019
Keeping the Lights on with a High-Renewables Grid
Joshua Rhodes & Colin Meehan
Vibrant Clean Energy (Rhodes) & First Solar (Meehan)
August 7, 2019
Private Energy -- Private Law & the Green Transition
Yael Lifshitz
Lecturer in Law, Kings College London
August 7, 2019
Energy Exactions
Jim Rossi & Christopher Serkin
Lansden Chair (Rossi) and Ridley Chair (Serkin) in Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
August 29, 2019
Climate Litigation & the Green Transition
Michael Burger
Director, Sabin Center for Climate Law and Policy
October 4, 2019
PG&E Wildfire Liability and Bankruptcy
Michael Wara
Senior Research Scholar, Woods Institute for the Environment & Fellow, Stanford Law School
October 4, 2019
How to Value Distributed Resources
Scott Burger
Analytics Lead, Form Energy & Lecturer, MIT Center for Environmental Policy Research
October 3, 2019
Law in the Anthropocene Epoch
Eric Biber
Edward C. Halbach Professor of Law, University of California at Berkeley School of Law
October 3, 2019
Regulating Fracking's Risks to Water
Caroline Cecot
Assistant Professor, Scalia Law School, George Mason University
October 14, 2019
Balancing the Local Costs with the Wider Benefits of Energy Development
Hannah Wiseman
Attorneys Title Professor of Law, Florida State College of Law
October 30, 2019
Tort Law & Climate Change Litigation
Douglas Kysar
Deputy Dean and Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law, Yale Law School
December, 2019
Carbon Taxes: The Evolving Conventional Wisdom
Sheila Olmstead
Professor of Public Policy, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
January 23, 2020
Public Attitudes on Energy & Climate
David Konisky
Professor, O’Neill School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
February 7, 2020
Climate Change and the Ethical Obligations of Business
Eric Orts
Guardsmark Professor of Business Ethics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
February 13, 2020
Just Transitions
Anne Eisenberg
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law
February 13, 2020
The Green New Deal Meets Old Green Laws
J.B. Ruhl
David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
February 19, 2020
Renewable Natural Gas & A Decarbonized Energy Future
Michael Webber
Josey Centennial Professor of Energy Resources, University of Texas, and Chief Science & Technology Officer, ENGIE
March 27, 2020
Restricting Energy Production & Flaring
James Coleman
Associate Professor of Law, SMU Dedman School of Law
March 27, 2020
Energy Infrastructure & Indigenous Communities
Guillermo Garcia Sanchez
Associate Professor, Texas A&M University School of Law
April, 2020
Magic Numbers in the Climate Debate
Katharine Hayhoe
Direction of the Climate Center & Professor of Pubic Policy at Texas Tech University
May 6, 2020
Cost Reductions vs. Value Loss in the Renewables Build-Out
Eric Hittinger
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Rochester Institute of Technology
May 13, 2020
Social Acceptance and Negative Emissions Technologies
Holly J. Buck
Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA and Assistant Professor of Environment & Sustainability, University of Buffalo
May 20, 2020
Oil & Gas Commissions as 'Incidental' Environmental Agencies
Tara Righetti
Associate Professor, University of Wyoming College of Law
May 23, 2020
Siting Wind Turbines
K.K. DuVivier
Professor, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
May 26, 2020
A 'Just Transition' in Both the Old and New Energy Sectors
Joshua Busby (University of Texas), Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) & Dustin Mulvaney (San Jose State University)
June 5, 2020