Seminar - Gemma Heddle - Cailfornia's Electricity Crisis

Wednesday, August 15, 2001, 1.10 - 1.40 pm
Civil Engineering Lecture Room 3

Abstract

The recent blackouts in California have been the result of a critical shortage of power plant capacity. This power shortage is having a negative impact on the economy of California and the rest of the interconnected West, as well as the bruised national economy. This presentation looks at short-term strategies for overcoming California's mismatch between supply and demand.

Gemma Heddle is currently undertaking graduate studies in the Technology and Policy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she is also working as research assistant in the MIT Energy Lab. She previously completed a Masters of Engineering Studies degree with the Ocean Technology Group at the University of Sydney and a Combined Bachelor of Engineering (Civil)/Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Adelaide. Her main interests lie in the fields of greenhouse gas and sustainable energy policy.