(10/13) Green Energy: Economic Savior or Economic Suicide?: A Debate 8-10 p.m, Hogg Building (WCH1.120)

"Green Energy: Economic Savior or Economic Suicide": The University of Texas Objectivism Society hosts a debate between Alex Epstein of the Center for Industrial Progress and Ryan Rittenhouse of Greenpeace.

On October 13, energy experts from Greenpeace and the Center for Industrial Progress will go head-to-head in a debate on the question: ”Green Energy: Economic Savior or Economic Suicide”? The event, which will be hosted by The University of Texas Objectivism Society and sponsored by CFACT – Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, will be held in the William C. Hogg building, room 1.120 on the UT Austin campus at 8 pm CT. It will also be broadcast live on the Internet via Livestream.

Representing Greenpeace will be Ryan Rittenhouse, a prominent anti-coal advocate and Greenpeace’s Austin Field Representative. Representing the Center for Industrial Progress will be Alex Epstein, the Center’s Director and a widely-published free-market energy writer whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Investor’s Business Daily.

Epstein and Rittenhouse will debate all things energy, with a focus on energy, energy policy and "green energy." This event is expected to have attendees from both Greenpeace and the local Objectivist community. It will be live streamed, in addition to being professionally filmed for distribution.




8-10PM
Hogg Building (WCH), 1.120
UT Objectivisim Society

(10/13) UTES: Wind vs. Gas Generation: Evidence from Texas, 5:15-6:15pm, Welch Hall (WEL 2.308)

Wind Generation Development and Incentive for Dispatchable Thermal Generation Investment  

by

C.K. Woo

(Senior Partner, Energy+Environmental Economics)

13 October, 5:15-6:15pm

WELCH HALL (WEL) 2.308

Open to all. Refreshments served at 5:00pm

Please settle in by 5:10pm

Speaker Bio:

C.K. Woo is a Senior Partner of E3, an energy economics consulting firm in San Francisco. With 30 years of industry experience, he has published over 100 refereed articles on applied microeconomics, applied finance, and energy economics.

He is an associate editor of Energy; a member of the editorial board of The Energy Journal; and a guest editor of a 2011 special issue on renewable energy for Energy Policy.

Next Talk:

20 October, “International Mechanisms for Climate Change Finance”

    Speaker: Gevorg Sargsyan, Program Coordinator, Climate Investment Funds, World Bank

Previous Talks:

For slides/videos of previous UTES talks go to this link.

UT Energy Symposium (UTES)

1 Sep – 17 Nov, Every Thursday, 5:15-6:15pm

WELCH HALL (WEL) 2.308

October 11th 6:30pm: TEF Hosts Dr. Butler

Just wanted to remind everyone that we will be hosting Dr. Butler this
upcoming Tuesday Oct 11th at 6:30 pm.  This will be held in the same room as
the last meeting, room CBA 4.344.  As the Academic Director of the EMIC, Dr. Butler will be presenting an overview of the Energy Management and Innovation Center (EMIC) at McCombs and will talk about some of the events and conferences being planned for this year.  As our second general meeting of the semester, we want to also present a good overview of what we are here to offer UT with our own energy-related events.  As always, pizza
and drinks will be provided during the presentation.  Hope to see you there.



More on the McCombs Energy Management and Innovation Center:
The McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin
established the Energy Management & Innovation Center to serve as a
college-wide center of excellence to promote energy-related research
and teaching. EMIC takes an integrative and multidisciplinary approach
toward energy problems, broadly defined, with the aim of creating
intellectual capital of use to industry and policy-makers, educating
students in energy management and innovation, and linking the McCombs
School’s activities in this area to the university’s energy
initiatives and other sources of knowledge and information about the
world’s energy future.


Thanks,
Otto Swingler


The Texas Energy Forum
http://texasenergyforum.blogspot.com/
McCombs' Central Energy Hub For All Things Energy;
Connecting Students, Businesses, and Academics

9/28 5:30-6:30 - SCMSO & TEF Meeting with Shell and Motiva

This Wednesday (9/28) the Texas Energy Forum and the Supply Chain Management Student Organization will be co-hosting a meeting with representatives from Shell and Motiva.  They will give an overview of the company, as well as discuss their full-time and internship opportunities. 
There will be recruiters from multiple divisions, including:

•  Motiva GM Supply and Distribution
• Motiva Operations Support
• Manager in Distribution
• Shell Global Solutions - Market Intelligence and Analysis 
• Contracts and Negotiations for Motiva Supply and Distribution

Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemicals companies with around 93,000 employees in more than 90 countries and territories.

Formed in 1998, Motiva Enterprises LLC is a joint venture between Shell and Saudi Refining, Inc. that operates primarily in the eastern and southern United States. Its operations include nearly 7,700 Shell-branded gasoline stations, three refineries with a combined capacity of 740,000 barrels per day, and ownership interest in 41 refined product storage terminals with an aggregate storage capacity of approximately 19.8 million barrels.
Meeting Details:

• Date: Wednesday, 9/28
• Time: 5:30 - 6:30
• Location: GSB Events Room (GSB 5.130)

FREE Jimmy Johns will be provided!!

Sept. 28-29, Clean Energy Venture Summit 2011

2011 Keynote Speakers Announced!

Kevin Skillern, Managing Director of Venture Capital GE Energy
Bob Metcalfe, Professor of Innovation and Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise, The University of Texas at Austin

The 5th Annual Clean Energy Venture Summit and Cleantech Open Regional Judging & Awards is scheduled on September 28-29, 2011 at the AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center in Austin, Texas. The Clean Energy Venture Summit has become the premier Cleantech business plan completion and educational conference in the southern United States.

This Summit provides clean energy technology companies and entrepreneurs a venue for presenting their innovations to venture capitalists, angel investors, and strategic investors that currently invest in clean energy, as well as experts from Austin Energy, corporate partners, other utility executives, and government leaders. This year, the Clean Energy Venture Summit competition will select 10 later-stage start-up companies to present their technology to a panel of experienced investors, and for the first time the winners will be rewarded with cash prizes.

In addition to the later-stage business competition, the event will also host the South Central regional finals for the Cleantech Open, a national seed-stage clean energy competition with 7 companies vying for a chance to win a total of $80,000 regionally and, for three finalists, $250,000 at the Cleantech Open Global Forum in California.

Bob King of Good Company Associates will lead a panel of utility industry executives on Wednesday in a "living room" discussion of how the utility sector is evolving. Leaders from Austin Energy, Oncor, CPS Energy, and the Texas Institute will discuss how their organizations are adopting new policies and solutions to prepare for the electricity needs of the future.

Brewster McCracken, Executive Director, Pecan Street, Inc. will moderate a dynamic panel on Thursday with executives from Best Buy, Sony, Intel and LG. This panel will explore the role of consumer electronics in emerging markets such as smart grid, and discuss their corporate approaches to development of new technologies.

Price to attend the Summit: $200
Sign up by August 15th and save $50! 

Agenda

Events on Wednesday, September 28

• Educational Panel on the Future of Utilities
• Cleantech Open presentations and competition
• Welcome Reception at Austin City Hall

Events on Thursday, September 29

• Keynote Speaker: Kevin Skillern
• Series A+B Business Plan Competition
• Lunch Speaker: Bob Metcalfe
• Consumer Electronics Panel on Customer Adoption of Smart Grid technologies
• Awards & Reception

Check out their website here for more information: http://www.cleanenergyventuresummit.com/

UT Energy Symposium - The Future of Natural Gas

The UT Energy Symposium is hosting the next part of their lecture series on:

Thursday September 29th 
5:00-6:15PM 
Welch, WEL 2.308. 


The topic will be:

The Future of Natural Gas in the US 

Presented by  Marianne Kah, Chief Economist, ConocoPhillips

As the Chief Economist at ConocoPhillips, Marianne is responsible for
developing the company’s market outlooks for global oil, natural gas, refining and
marketing, and conducting special strategic studies. She is also the company’s
expert in scenario planning. Some of her awards include being the winner of 50 Key Women in Energy Award in 2003 and 2004, and the the winner of the 2003 Senior Fellow Award from U.S. Association for Energy Economics. 

9/27 6-7pm- AMA UT hosts ConocoPhillips

9/27- AMA UT hosts ConocoPhillips

Hey everyone, here's an upcoming event at McCombs we wanted to promote for AMA. Here's the original description as it appears on the McCombs BBA News Blog.

AMA UT hosts ConocoPhillips
Tuesday, Sep. 27, 2011
Food: FREE Jason’s Deli
6-7 p.m.
UTC 1.104
ConocoPhillips, the third largest integrated energy company in the U.S., will be at our regular meeting to discuss the challenges of marketing a product that has little differentiation from company to company and to answer your questions. Also come out to meet new people, play an icebreaker game, and enjoy some free dinner!