2015 POWER Conference
on Energy Research and Policy
March 20, 2015

Joseph Wood Krutch Theater
Clark Kerr Campus
University of California, Berkeley
2601 Warring Street
Berkeley, CA 94720

Program:

Morning Sessions

8:00am-9:00am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00am-9:15am: Welcome

9:15am-10:45am: Session 1

“Belt and Suspenders and More: The Incremental Impact of Energy Efficiency Subsidies in the Presence of Existing Policy Instruments” Sebastien Houde* (University of Maryland) and Joseph Aldy (Harvard University)

“Measuring the Spatial Heterogeneity in Environmental Externalities from Driving: A Comparison of Gasoline and Electric Vehicles” Stephen Holland* (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Erin Mansur (Dartmouth University), Nicholas Muller (Middlebury College), and Andrew Yates (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Discussants:
Carmen Best (California Public Utilities Commission)
Maximilian Auffhammer (University of California, Berkeley)

Break

11:10am-12:40pm: Session 2

“Default Bias, Follow‐On Behavior and Welfare in Residential Electricity Pricing Programs” Peter Cappers (LBNL), Meredith Fowlie* (University of California, Berkeley), Steve George (Nexant), Anna Spurlock (LBNL), Annika Todd (LBNL), Michael Sullivan (Nexant), and Catherine Wolfram (University of California, Berkeley)

“Financing Constraints as Barriers to Innovation: Evidence from R&D Grants to Energy Startups” Sabrina Howell (Harvard University)

Discussants:
Stefano DellaVigna (University of California, Berkeley)
Brian Steel (Cleantech to Market)

12:40pm-2:10pm: Lunch

2:10pm-2:15pm: Welcome Back

2:15pm-3:00pm: Session 3

“Do Steeply Tiered Rates Promote Conservation? An Analysis Using Aggregate Data” Russell Garwacki*, Kiphan Kan, Tram Camba, and Steve Verdon (Southern California Edison)

“The Private Net Benefits of Residential Solar PV: And Who Gets Them” Severin Borenstein (University of California, Berkeley)

Discussants:
Chair Robert Weisenmiller (California Energy Commission)
Koichiro Ito (Boston University)

Break

3:25pm-4:55pm: Session 4

“A Proximate Mirror: Greenhouse Gas Rules and Strategic Behavior under the US Clean Air Act” Dallas Burtraw, Karen Palmer*, Sophie Pan and Anthony Paul (Resources for the Future)

“Strategic Policy Choice in State-Level Regulation: The EPA’s Clean Power Plan” James Bushnell* (University of California, Davis), Stephen Holland (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Jonathan Hughes (University of Colorado), and Christopher R. Knittel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Discussants:
Matthew Barmack (Calpine)
Frank Wolak (Stanford University)

5:00pm – 6:30pm: Reception with music provided by the jazz combo “Solar Wind”

* Denotes presenter