Lecture: Energy Efficiency and Renewables: Market and Behavioral Failures
January 28th, 2010 (12:00pm - )
Building 50 Auditorium of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road
Berkeley, CA, USA
Topic: Energy
Event Type: Other
Tags: energy efficiency, jim sweeney, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Renewables
Comments Off The Environmental Energy Technologies Division’s Distinguished Lecture Series presents:
Energy Efficiency and Renewables: Market and Behavioral Failures
Jim Sweeney
Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency
Stanford University
Thursday January 28, 2010 at Noon
Building 50 Auditorium of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Policies to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency have been gaining momentum throughout the world, often justified by environmental and energy security concerns. This presentation first talks about energy efficiency options, then delves into the economic motivation for energy efficiency and renewable energy policies by articulating the classes of relevant behavioral failures and market failures. Such behavioral and market failures may vary intertemporally or atemporally; the temporal structure and the extent of the failures are the critical considerations in the development of energy policies. The talk will discuss key policy instruments and assess the extent to which they are well-suited to correct for failures with different structures.
If you are coming from offsite, please contact JoAnne Lambert, JMLambert@lbl.gov for site access information.
URL: http://eetd.lbl.gov/dls/lecture-01-28-10-sweeney.html
Organizer(s): Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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