8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
PANEL A
Moderator: Danny Cullenward, Near Zero
Grace Relf, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE); The Role of Energy Efficiency in a Distributed Energy Future
Brady Stoll, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Contributions of Concentrating Solar Power to Future Power Needs
Andrew Mills, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Estimating the Value of Offshore Wind Along the United States’ Eastern Coast
Will Frazier, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; What Happens after the Investment and Production Tax Credits Expire? A View from the Standard Scenarios and the Annual Energy Outlook
PANEL B
Moderator: Gabe Chan, University of Minnesota
Ben Stacey, University of Michigan; A MultiState Analysis of Equity in Energy Efficiency Investments
Naim Darghouth, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Income Trends of Residential PV Adopters
Sydney Forrester, University of Michigan; Profiling Households in the Energy Efficiency Doughnut Hole
Ryan Stoa, Concordia University School of Law; Regulated Entities' Adaptation to Regulatory Change and Uncertainty: A Case Study of the Clean Power Plan
10:15 - 11:45 AM
PANEL A
Moderator:Hanna Breetz, Arizona State University
Mason Inman, Near Zero; Oversupply and Banking in the Western Climate Initiative Carbon Market
Nathan Parker, Arizona State University; The Role of Out-of-State Renewable Natural Gas in Meeting the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Danny Cullenward, Near Zero; Cross-border Governance in Linked Carbon Markets: A Case Study of California and the Western Climate Initiative
Stefan Pauer, The University of British Columbia; Including Electricity Imports in California's Cap-and-Trade Program: A Case Study of a Border Carbon Adjustment in Practice
PANEL B
Moderator: Seth Blumsack, Penn State University
Soojin Shin, University of Delaware; Smart Energy City: A Strategy to Address Economic and Environmental Needs in Large Cities
Anna Karmazina, Oregon State University; Energy Use Data Access and Open Innovation in Demand Response and Energy Efficiency
Moataz Sheha, University of Utah; An Economic and Policy Case for Proactive Home Energy Management Systems with Photovoltaics and Batteries
Omar Isaac Asensio, Georgia Institute of Technology; Real-time Intelligence in Emerging Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
PANEL C
Moderator: Sarah Mills, University of Michigan
Cheryl O'Brien, Idaho State University; Is Bad Performance the Answer to Saving the Nuclear Power Industry?
Jamal Mamkhezri, University of New Mexico; Consumer Preferences for Solar Energy: An Experimental Study
Thomas Ptak, University of Idaho; Rethinking Community: Analyzing the Landscape of Community Solar Through a Sense of Place
Patricia Fernandez Guajardo, Oregon State University; Drivers and Barriers to Sustainable Management of the Food-Energy-Water Nexus
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Moderator: Emily Grubert, University of California, Berkeley
Noel Bakhtian, Center for Advanced Energy Studies
Terry Harvill, ITC Grid Development
Dan James, Bonneville Power Administration
Rebecca O’Neil, Department of Energy & Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
1:45 - 3:15 PM
PANEL A
Moderator: Stephanie Lenhart, Boise State University
Paolo Davide Farah, West Virginia University; Hydraulic Fracturing: Knowledge, Social Impacts and Participation
Gabe Pacyniak, University of New Mexico; Can PURPA “Green” Rural Electricity Co-ops?
Temis Gardner Taylor, Utah State University; Public Discourse, Public Lands: Unconventional Resources and Perceptions of Risk
Cheryl O'Brien, Idaho State University; Nuclear Power Lessons from California: How Expansion of Scope Led to Shutdown of the Industry
PANEL B
Moderator: KK DuVivier, University of Denver
Roundtable Discussion
Troy Rule, Arizona State University; The Economics of Wind Turbine Wakes
Jessica Tomaszewski, University of Colorado; Quantifying Wake Impacts on Downwind Wind Farms Using Atmospheric Models
Amy Jones, University of Denver; Legal Approaches for Recognizing and Accommodating Wind Rights
PANEL C
Moderator: Wesley Cole, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Juan Pablo Carvallo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; The Use of Market Transactions in Vertically Integrated US Electric Utilities
Rebecca Langer, Oregon State University; Uniting the West to Save Renewables: Impacts of an Energy Imbalance Market in the Pacific Northwest
Sylwia Bialek, New York University; Accounting for Load and Supply Seasonality in the Design of Capacity Markets
Naga Srujana Goteti, Rochester Institute of Technology; Stochastic versus Deterministic Grid-Evolution Models: Case Study on the Midwest US Region
3:30 - 5:00 PM
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