Friday Lunch Meeting, Olivier Massol, 22th of february 2019

Olivier Massol (Professor at the Institut Français du Pétrole et Énergies Nouvelles (IFP Énergies Nouvelles)) will lecture about his paper Phasing out the U.S. Federal Helium Reserve: Policy insights from a world helium model (link here).  Slides' presentation    Abstract This paper develops a detailed partial equilibrium model of the global helium market to study […]

Friday Lunch Meeting, Fabien Roques, 19th of April 2019

Speaker   Fabien Roques, Associate Professor at Paris-Dauphine University   Title   A Climate and socio-economic study of a multi-member state carbon price floor to the power sector   Abstract   Our study shows the limitations of the recent ETS reform and the potential benefits from a Carbon Price Floor (CPF).   Objectives:  -Identify potential […]

Friday Lunch Meeting, Alexis Tantet, 26th april 2019

Alexis Tantet, Postdoctoral fellow at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory of the Polytechnic School
We develop a renewable energy mix optimization program. The main novelty is to take into account and evaluate the impact of climate variability, from multi-decadal to hourly time scales, on the mix.

Friday Lunch Meeting, Jacques de Gerlache, May 17th 2019

Greenhouse gases, energy production (fossil, renewable, nuclear), transformation, transportation or storage: the challenges of global energy transitions are many and varied. So much so that policy makers, economists or business leaders often tend to consider them individually.