MIT Energy Conference

Tickets for this event can be purchased directly from the MIT Energy Conference website. https://www.mitenergyconference.org/

New England Fuels Institute Energy Leaders Program at Dartmouth

The NEFI Energy Leaders Program at Dartmouth emphasizes strategy, innovation, and leadership skills to help drive breakout performance in our industry. Offered to energy professionals exclusively through NEFI and the Tuck School of Business, this course provides a robust learning framework for participants to refine leadership style and develop their ability to communicate and implement new business strategies.

Designed by leaders in the field of executive education specifically for energy industry business leaders whose roles have strategic implications for their organizations, the NEFI Energy Leaders Program ensures that energy professionals have the business and leadership skills they need to create and execute strategy to positively impact their organizations. This intensive, one-week course offers insights into strategy, innovation, disruption, finance, and leadership. Taught by leading Tuck faculty, the program promises to be a transformative experience for participants, who will return to work inspired and ready to make real change.

Topics:

• Innovation strategy
• Leading change
• Building, protecting and measuring corporate reputation
• Developing a strategic mindset
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Superbosses
• Leading the family business
• Building and managing strong brands
• Understanding the customer
• Financing for growth
• Digital strategies for innovation

For more information please connect with NEFI here.

Dartmouth Energy 101

Energy touches every aspect of our lives, from public health to international economics to technological innovation and beyond.  This eight-week, not-for-credit evening workshop series is organized by the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society and the Dartmouth Energy Collaborative.  Each session digs into an important dimension of the role energy plays in human life and includes expert panelists, networking opportunities, and discussion on what’s most relevant to communities and individuals.  Series starts March 28 at Dartmouth College.  Sessions run from 6:30-7:45 pm on Thursdays.

Staff, students, and the greater community who are interested in attending can register here.

Dartmouth Energy Collaborative Lunch and Learn

p>Currently 86% of primary energy use in Iceland is derived from renewable and domestic energy resources. Two sectors still rely on imported fossil fuels: the fishing industry and transportation.  Transitioning to a low-carbon, close to fossil fuel free economy is therefore a possibility in Iceland in the near future and the Icelandic government has proposed to reach carbon neutrality by 2040.

Multiple different development pathways are possible towards a low-carbon and a more sustainable energy system in Iceland as the Icelandic energy resources can be developed and the energy used in diverse ways.  Given the capital intensity and longevity of energy infrastructure and technologies it is important that decision-makers realize the multifaceted implications of energy development choices as these will influence the Icelandic society and government budgets for years to come.

This presentation will provide insights to these issues, and present an integrated decision-making framework, based on system dynamics, multi-criteria decision-analysis and sustainability indicators that has been developed to assist decision-makers in Iceland make robust decisions.

About Prof. Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir:
Dr. Davíðsdóttir is a Professor of Environment and Natural Resources at University of Iceland (UoI). She also is the director of UoI Arctic Initiative, academic director of the Environment and Natural Resources graduate programme at UoI and sits on the board of UoI Institute of Economic Studies. In addition to her academic duties Dr. Davidsdottir is the vice chair of the Icelandic Climate Commission.  She also is a board member of several Icelandic companies and foundations, and for example is the chairman of the board of Reykjavik Energy. Dr. Davíðsdóttir has extensive teaching, research and consulting experience with a focus on transitions to low carbon energy systems, ecosystem services, sustainability indicators and climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Staff and students who are interested in attending can sign up here.

Emerging Energy Needs Forum at the 3rd Annual New Hampshire Clean Energy Week

Energy Week partners are working with the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Oracle, and other key partners to facilitate a high level discussion on the emerging energy needs in NH's largest city and modern approaches to fulfilling those needs. The event will be at the Oracle Dyn facility in Manchester.

Energy Week is made possible thanks to the support of our sponsors. Premier Sponsors supporting the full series of events include: Coca Cola Bottling Company, NH Saves, and Freedom Energy Logistics.

The Emerging Energy Needs Forum is sponsored by Cypress Creek Renewables.

Staff, students, and the greater community who are interested in attending can register here.

A New Energy Future for Morocco: Tradition, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

With 25 students, we will explore six cities, multiple companies, and learn about the social-cultural traditions of Morocco and the challenges and opportunities of transitioning to a clean energy economy.

For more information visit the GIX website.

CERAWeek 2019

The CERAWeek agenda is available here: https://ceraweek.com/program/agenda.html.

Dartmouth Energy Collaborative Lunch and Learn

Large cascading failures in electrical grids are rare but catastrophic, sometimes affecting millions of people and incurring substantial social and economic costs. Quantifying the risk of cascading failure is thus of critical importance for grid planning and operation, but is extremely challenging due to the rarity of blackout-causing events amongst the vast search space of possible combinations of component outages. In this talk, we present new approaches for estimating this risk in a computationally tractable way and show that it is orders of magnitude faster than current approaches. We demonstrate the method on two realistic test cases; a model of the Polish grid with 2896 transmission lines under varying load conditions and a larger model based on the geography of the Western US with 12,706 transmission lines. Examining the sensitivity of overall blackout risk to individual transmission line failures facilitates the identification of low-cost strategies for reducing risk. For example, we show that the risk of catastrophically large blackouts in the Polish grid model can be reduced by 83% for only a modest 1.9% increase in operational costs. Blackout risk estimation is often simplified by assuming that initiating outages are independent events, so that only pairwise initiating outages need be considered. In reality, common exogenous causes (such as severe storms) often induce spatial correlation in transmission line outages. We develop methods to incorporate such spatial correlation and show that the contribution to risk of 3-component initiating outages, relative to 2-component initiating outages, increases as a function of spatial correlation. We are currently exploring tractable methods for estimating the risk due to even higher-order contingencies.

Staff and students who are interested in attending can sign up here.