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Rapid Switch - Agenda

Day One: Wednesday, June 12, 2019

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast (Maeder Hall Lobby)

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Welcome and Introductions (Maeder Hall Auditorium)
Eric Larson – Senior Research Engineer, Energy Systems Analysis Group, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Chris Greig – Gerhard R. Andlinger Visiting Fellow in Energy and the Environment; Director, Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation; Dow Chair in Sustainable Engineering Innovation,
The University of Queensland

Rapid Switch Frameworks – Introductory presentation by Joe Lane

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Break (Maeder Hall Lobby)

11:00 – 12:30 p.m.
Flash Presentations – Technological / Industrial Bottleneck Research Ideas (Maeder Hall Auditorium)

  • Ma Linwei (Pathways to a Low Carbon Energy System / China)
  • Shoibal Chakravarty (India’s cooling challenge)
  • Jesse Jenkins (Critical bottlenecks in decarbonization of the U.S. electricity grid)
  • Wei Peng (Accelerating electric vehicle uptake in China and India)
  • Eric Larson (Decarbonizing the U.S. by 2050 – scaling up BECCS)

12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Lunch (Maeder Courtyard Tent)
Challenging The Way We Think About Global Decarbonization Pathways

  • Chris Greig (What if CCS deployment falls short of expectations?)
  • Richard Moss (Mitigation vs Adaptation – which is less prone to barriers and bottlenecks?)
  • Ambuj Sagar (Leapfrogging? Not as easy as it sounds.)

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Flash Presentations – Social / Political Bottleneck Research Ideas (Maeder Hall Auditorium)

  • Matthew Ives (Sensitive interventions in the post-carbon transition)
  • Leah Stokes (The political logistics of a rapid low-carbon transition)
  • Rohit Chandra (Political economy of coal / India)
  • Elke Weber (Social norms in driving or resisting energy transitions)
  • John Pickering (Energy efficiency – changing habits of billions with behavior innovation)

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Break (Maeder Hall Lobby)

4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Flash Presentations – Business / Economic Research Ideas (Maeder Hall Auditorium)

  • Anthony Ku (China’s role in decarbonizing the world)
  • Balachandra Patil (Transition to low-carbon energy system in India: Challenges and opportunities)
  • Belinda Wade (Incumbent industries in energy transitions / OECD)
  • Stephen Wilson (Could availability of capital constrain the transitions? / World)
  • Phil Hannam (Development institutions – constraints helping countries decarbonize / Non-OECD)

5:45 – 6:30 p.m.
Poster Session / Reception (Weikart Atrium, Louis Simpson Building)

Group Photo

Dinner (Weikart Atrium, Louis Simpson Building)

  • Speaker: Haroon Kheshgi – Senior Scientific Advisor, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
  • Respondent: Elke Weber – Associate Director for Education (on leave); Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment; Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Day Two: Thursday, June 13, 2019

8:00 – 8:30 a.m.
Continental Breakfast available

8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Flash Presentations – Modelling

  • Diptiranjan Mahapatra (Modelling long term energy and climate policy scenarios / India)
  • Mitchell Small (Low-carbon transitions – New Methods & cross-cutting applications)

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Workshop – Rapid Switch Framework Paper – Facilitated Discussion (Maeder Hall Auditorium)
Facilitation by Jeff Fitts

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Break (Maeder Hall Lobby)

11:00 – 12:15 p.m.
Breakout Sessions (Locations to be assigned according to group size.)

  • Prospective collaborators meet to flesh out project ideas / draft proposal concepts.
  • Core breakout themes to be developed during the first day/evening.
  • Participants will see the list at Breakfast on Thursday and can choose their preferred session.
  • Smaller self-forming groups may emerge and will also be encouraged.

12:15 – 1:45 p.m.
Working Lunch
Box lunches will be available in Maeder Hall Lobby.

1:45 – 3:00 p.m.
Final Session (Maeder Hall Auditorium)

  • Report back on breakout sessions.
  • Summarize framework draft discussion & appoint writing team.
  • Decide next steps.

3:00 p.m.
Adjourn
Discussions can continue among participants not leaving Thursday evening.