DEC Energy Seminar: Vulnerable Systems

Date: January 26
Time: 12:15 p.m.

Climate change is impacting our planet in ways that are becoming ever more apparent. The infrastructure that undergirds modern life — from roads and ports to energy generation installations and transmission lines — is one area increasingly at risk from climate-fueled flooding, fires, extreme heat, and sea level rise. Energy infrastructure is also key to helping us avert the worst effects of a warming planet as we transition to more affordable, sustainable, just, and reliable energy systems. The Dartmouth Energy Collaborative invites you to join us for our winter lunchtime seminar series as we explore the challenges and possibilities of building a more just and resilient infrastructure system that powers the energy transition.

In the second session of our "Critical Infrastructure in a Climate Changing World" series, Julio Friedmann, Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and Abby Hopper '93, CEO and President of the Solar Energy Industries Assocation, will look at climate and infrastructure through a policy lens. What policies have contributed to the urgency of our climate moment? What policies do we need to put in place to help transition to a sustainable energy future and address the challeneges already being created by climate change?

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Power-Up Thursday: Wind Country |  Driving Growth and Equity in West Virginia

Join the Revers Center for Energy and the Tuck Team for the University of Michigan Ross Renewable Energy Case Competition for a presentation on their innovative approach to solving that case. 

Wind Country: Driving Growth and Equity in West Virginia

This presentation explores the following topics through a case study of West Virginia:
• How can renewable energy investment revitalize declining Appalachian coal communities?
• How can power producers facilitate improved and more equitable economic and health outcomes?
• Is a transition from coal to renewables economically, politically, and socially viable?

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DEC Energy Seminar: Vulnerable Systems: Climate Urgency and Energy Equity

Climate change is impacting our planet in ways that are becoming ever more apparent. The infrastructure that undergirds modern life — from roads and ports to energy generation installations and transmission lines—is increasingly at risk from climate-fueled flooding, fires, extreme heat, and sea-level rise. Energy infrastructure is also key to helping us avert the worst effects of a warming planet as we transition to more affordable, sustainable, just, and reliable energy systems. The Dartmouth Energy Collaborative invites you to our winter lunchtime seminar series, "Critical Infrastructure in a Climate-Changing World," as we explore the challenges and possibilities of building a more just and resilient infrastructure system to power the energy transition.
 
Join us on Tuesday, January 12 at 12:15 p.m. EST for the first session in our series, titled "Vulnerable Systems: Climate Urgency and Energy Equity." In this talk, Professors Erich Osterberg of Dartmouth College and Shalanda Baker of Northeastern University look at the societal impacts of climate change and explore the opportunities for a more equitable energy future.

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Powering the Future in the New Energy World

Powering the Future in the New Energy World: A US-Canada dialogue featuring Dartmouth alumni and energy experts on the future of North American energy systems, transitions, trade, and markets.

Cosponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Irving Institute for Energy and Society, and Revers Center for Energy at the Tuck School of Business

Panelists include:

• April Salas, Executive Director Revers Center for Energy, Tuck School of Business
• Elizabeth Wilson, Director, Irving Institute for Energy and Society
• Stephen Dowd T’90, Chief Investment Officer-Private Infrastructure Strategies, CBRE Global Investors
• Michael Bernstein D’91, President, Juno Advisors Ltd.
• Abigail Hopper D’93, President and CEO, Solar Energy Industries Association
• Steven Malnight T’92, CEO and President Duquesne Light Company

Tuck staff and students can sign up here to receive the Zoom information for this talk.

Boston Energy Career Trek

The Revers Center for Energy will sponsor virtual visits to Arclight Capital Partners and Swift Current Energy, both based in Boston, MA where Tuck alumni will share their experience building their energy careers. Priority will be given to Energy Club students who have expressed interest in exploring energy fields but this opportunity is open to all Tuck students.

Financing the Future of Automotive Mobility

The Revers Center for Energy and the Future of Automotive Mobility Club are excited to host today’s panel on Financing the Future of Automotive Mobility with:

• Richard Hawwa, Managing Director on the automotive and mobility investment banking team at Citibank
• John Casesa (T’86), Sr. Managing Director at Guggenheim Partners
• Matthew Fisher, Strategic Sourcing Manager on the Procurement and Strategic Partnership team at Zoox

The panel is meant to explore how companies in the burgeoning automotive mobility sector are approaching financing and sourcing additional capital. The panel will touch on financing developments in the electric vehicle and automotive mobility space over the past five years, including investments from the established automakers in early- and mid-stage start-ups, as well as the recent phenomenon of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). Our panel includes a banker from Citi’s automotive investment banking, an ex-strategy officer at Ford who is now a senior banker with Guggenheim, and a Strategic Sourcing Manager at Zoox, who will bring a finance perspective from a growth-stage company.

DEC Energy Seminar: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate

Date: Tuesday, October 27
Time: 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.

In 1999, Texas passed a landmark clean energy law, beginning a groundswell of new policies that promised to make the US a world leader in renewable energy. As Leah Stokes shows in Short Circuiting Policy, however, that policy did not lead to momentum in Texas, which failed to implement its solar laws or clean up its electricity system. Examining clean energy laws in Texas, Kansas, Arizona, and Ohio over a thirty-year time frame, Stokes argues that organized combat between advocate and opponent interest groups is central to explaining why states are not on track to address the climate crisis. She tells the political history of our energy institutions, explaining how fossil fuel companies and electric utilities have promoted climate denial and delay. Stokes further explains the limits of policy feedback theory, showing the ways that interest groups drive retrenchment through lobbying, public opinion, political parties and the courts. More than a history of renewable energy policy in modern America, Short Circuiting Policy offers a bold new argument about how the policy process works, and why seeming victories can turn into losses when the opposition has enough resources to roll back laws.

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Feldberg Library- Energy Industry Exploration

The Feldberg Library at Tuck will hold an Industry Exploration session for Energy focused students on October 14 at 1:15 pm and 3:00 pm. The knowledgeable staff will show students who to locate market research reports and retrieve industry overviews.