Topic: Railbelt Energy Options - A Look at the Numbers
When: Tuesday, November 16th, 2010, 6-7:30pm
Where: Blue Loon (2999 Parks Highway)
Presenter:
- Mark Foster
Energy Consultant, Mark A. Foster & Associates (MAFA)
What do you think the price of oil and gas will be in twenty to forty years? What price should we estimate for greenhouse gas emissions when making long term investment decisions? How should we value a dollar today compared to a dollar fifty years from now? How quickly will new technologies lead to new energy "winners"?
The presentation included a quick quant overview of the usual suspects in Railbelt energy options, including end-use efficiency/conservation, oil, gas, coal, hydro, wind, geothermal, tidal, biomass, distributed generation and upstream energy supply chains, and assumptions that drive the economic analysis. Then the audience was polled for estimates of key assumptions that were incorporated into a simplified Railbelt Energy Economic Model.
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