Evaluating America's Energy Policies One Year into the Obama Administration

9:00 a.m.

Welcome

John Raisian, director and senior fellow, Hoover Institution

9:10 a.m.

Introduction: A Converastion on Major Trends in Energy Developments

George Shultz, distinguished fellow and Energy Task Force chair, Hoover Institution, and former secretary of state
Burton Richter, former director, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and Hoover Institution Energy Task Force member

10:00 a.m.

Break

10:15 a.m.

Session I – Distributed Energy

What policy framework(s) would be necessary to increse the adoption of distributed energy technologies?

Moderator: James Boyd, vice chair, California Energy Commision
Speaker: R. James Woosley, Energy Task Force member, Hoover Institution, and former director of Central Intelligence
Discussant: Jonathan Koomey, consulting professor, civil and environmental engineering, Stanford University

12:00 NOON

Lunch

1:00 p.m.

Session II – What Can We Do to Boost Energy Efficiency?

How can we use legislation, regulation, and incentives to promote behavioral change so that energy efficiency no longer underfulfills ints potential?

Moderator: John Weyant, professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Speaker: Jim Sweeney, senior fellow and Energy Task Force member, Hoover Institution, and director, Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency
Discussant: Jonathan Koomey, consulting professor, civil and environmental engineering, Stanford University

2:30 p.m.

2:45 p.m.

Session III – Addressing the Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Internationalizing enrichment services and solving the problem of spent fuel storage

Moderator: Robert Rosner, distinguished service professor, physics and astronomy, and astrophysics, University of Chicago, visiting professor, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, and former director, Argonne National Laboratory
Speaker: Ellen Tauscher, undersecretary of state ofr arms control and international security, State Department
Discussant: Tom Issacs, consulting professor, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, and director, Planning and Special Studies, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

5:00 p.m.

Conference End