Economics of Innovation in the Energy Sector
Organized by Ashley Langer and David Popp
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
September 30, 2022
National Press Club, 529 14th Street, N.W., Washington, DC

Friday, September 30

8:00 am

Breakfast and Registration

8:30 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:45 am

Technology Adoption and the Timing of Environmental Policy: Evidence from Efficient Lighting

Sarah C. Armitage, Boston University

9:15 am

Do Technology Standards Induce Innovation in Grid Modernization Technologies? (slides)

Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski, University of Wisconsin - Madison
David Popp, Syracuse University and NBER

9:45 am

Break

10:00 am

An Empirical Analysis of the US Generator Interconnection Policy

Sarah Johnston, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Chenyu Yang, University of Maryland, College Park

10:30 am

Winds of Change: Estimating Learning by Doing without Cost or Input Data

Thomas R. Covert, University of Chicago and NBER
Richard Sweeney, Boston College

11:00 am

Break

11:15 am

The ARPA Approach to Screening Prospective Energy Technology Research Investments

Anna Goldstein, Prime Coalition

11:45 am

How DOEs Government Funding Fuel Scientists?

Eugenie Dugoua, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Todd Gerarden, Cornell University
Kyle R. Myers, Harvard University and NBER
Jacquelyn Pless, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

12:15 pm

Talk by Sally Benson, Deputy Director for Energy, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Systems Thinking to Guide a Rapid and Just Energy Transition

12:45 pm

Luncheon