Past Events

26 results

26 results

Unpacking the IRA
May 31, 2023
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1:00PM - 4:00PM EDT
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Virtual Session - All times are EST
In Person
Previous discussions focused on the implementation challenges that come after and flow from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The murky picture of a few months ago has been changing with expanded analysis of just what the Act entails and how, and how...

Transmission Expansion: The Challenge of Major Changes
March 14, 2023
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1:00PM - 4:00PM EDT
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Virtual Session. Meeting time EST
In Person
Decarboning electricity requires major expansion in transmission. At the same time, transmission has been saving the day when tens of GWs of conventional plants keep failing in severe weather situations by enabling delivery of neighboring regions’ surplus...

Green Policy, Predictions, and Practice: Implementation Challenges
December 12, 2022
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1:00PM - 4:00PM EST
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Virtual Session-All times are EST
In Person
The goals for carbon emission reduction and the precipitating event of passage of the IRA lead to a focus on implementation. All elements of the electricity system and markets face new stress tests. Absent the unlikely unlimited expansion of the...

Constructing an HEPG Agenda: Taking Stock
October 14, 2022
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1:00PM - 4:00PM EDT
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Virtual Session. Meeting time EST
In Person
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is greatly about energy and climate related investments. The main political sausage compromise of the broad policy debate is now a done deal: no carbon tax but a methane fee! Attention must shift to implementation and...

Everything is Different: Ukraine, Energy, Climate and Electricity Markets
May 5, 2022
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1:00PM - 4:00PM EDT
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Virtual Session
In Person
The immediate crisis in Ukraine and attendant turmoil created by all Russian connections in energy markets is compelling a rapid reassessment of the resource mix and impacts on electricity systems. While the case of Europe is the most dramatic, the crisis...

Power Sector Innovation: Creating the Future
March 4, 2022
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2:00PM - 5:00PM EST
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Virtual Session
In Person
The power sector is being transformed by dramatic technological change. The demands for further innovation, emanating from the need for greater productivity internally and external public objectives, is increasing. How should the industry, policy makers...

Now What? Whither Goes Electricity Policy?
Dec 6, 2021
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1:00PM EST
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Virtual Session
In Person
A confluence of events presents major implications for the development of electricity system policy as part of the larger energy transition. The 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Glasgow, Federal legislation for the economy and climate...

Tail events: Prediction, Planning, and Performance
September 28, 2021
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1:30PM - 4:30PM EDT
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Virtual Session
In Person
Tail events: Prediction, Planning, and Performance Extreme weather and related fires and floods are much in the news. The electricity crisis in ERCOT in February 2021 illustrated the challenge of addressing high consequence but low probability events. The...

Stranded Assets: This Time is Different 
Jun 8, 2021
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12:00AM EDT
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Virtual Session
In Person
Reinhart and Rogoff subtitled This Time is Different to describe “Eight Centuries of Financial Folly” and the durability of hope over experience. Material changes in relative market economics for long-lived assets create the problem of stranded assets...

Clean Energy Policy: Ends, Means, and Playing Fields

March 9, 2021
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12:00PM - 3:00PM EST
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Virtual Session
In Person
The level playing field metaphor has long been a mantra of electricity market reform and regulation. The goal was an efficient and reliable system that supported investment. The costly experience with failures of monopoly planning pointed to using markets...

Clean Energy Policy: Tools and Trajectories
Feb 3, 2021
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12:00AM EST
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Virtual Session
In Person
The goal of clean or at least net emission free energy systems by a certain date dominates discussion of the policy agenda. The question of feasibility of such an objective, at least for the electricity sector, can be answered easily as a purely...