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MIT Energy Conference End-Use Efficiency (Apr 4 2008)

  1. As the MIT Energy Conference approaches, we’d like to share additional resources to help you learn about the issues surrounding end-use energy efficiency. Our energy efficiency panel organizers, led by Elsa Olivetti, have assembled this comprehensive list of presentations, reports, and organizations that address key aspects of energy efficiency. We hope you enjoy reading through these and look forward to seeing you at the conference!
    Here are a series of links related to end-use energy efficiency that will help provide background for the conference panel:
    In March of 2007 Amory Lovins, renowned efficiency guru and founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute (http://www.rmi.org/) gave a 5 part lecture on efficiency covering efficiency in buildings, industry, and transportation including a lecture on implementation and implication. These lectures can be found (along with files of his slides) at: http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid231.php
    The Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency founded in October 2006 at Stanford University to promote energy efficient technologies and practices. The site contains information about the research projects PIEE has in buildings, transportation, systems, behavior and modeling including an archive of conference papers and other publications.
    http://piee.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/htm/index.php?ref=home

    Vaclav Smil, professor at the University of Manitoba, has written a great many books about energy including end use efficiency. http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~vsmil/ He spoke recently at Harvard in their Future of Energy series and a video of this lecture can be found here:http://environment.harvard.edu/video/future_of_energy/smil/presentation.html
    The website for the California Energy Commission (Jackie Pfannenstiel is on the panel) http://www.energy.ca.gov/index.html - has a series of efficiency links related to appliance standards and building codes along with an appliance database, a home energy use calculator and other education links. Also relevant from a government perspective is the energy star program: http://www.energystar.gov/

    Horrace Herring, visiting research fellow in the Energy & Environment Research Unit at the Open University in the UK has worked in the area of energy efficiency for a long time. He has written a great deal about the limits of energy efficiency including a document titled, “Does Energy Efficiency Save Energy: The Economists Debate” which can be found here:
    http://technology.open.ac.uk/eeru/staff/horace/hh3.htm

    A report by McKinsey and Company titled: Reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, how much at what cost? The report addresses potential opportunities in end use efficiency. http://www.mckinsey.com/clientservice/ccsi/greenhousegas.asp
    Cambridge Energy Alliance http://www.cambridgeenergyalliance.org/ a collaborative organization of professionals dedicated to increased efficiency throughout Cambridge.
    Alliance to Save Energy http://www.ase.org/ promotes energy efficiency worldwide to achieve a healthier economy, a cleaner environment, and greater energy security.
    American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy http://www.aceee.org/ an organization dedicated to advancing energy efficiency as a means of promoting both economic prosperity and environmental protection.
    Northeast Energy Efficient Partnerships http://www.neep.org/ a regional nonprofit organization founded to promote energy efficiency in homes, buildings and industry in the Northeast U.S.

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