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The Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), in partnership with Columbia SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics (IGP), today announced the launch of a new Trade and Clean Energy Transition Program.
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The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI), especially Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and Gemini on which the now well-known ChatGPT AI and Gemina assistant systems...
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Russia’s energy exports, including its significant natural gas capacity, are geopolitical currency for the country. Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia was Europe’s single largest supplier of imported...
Past Event
May 11, 2020
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Please join the Women in Energy program for a virtual roundtable discussion with Virginia Snyder, Energy Sector Specialist at the Inter-American Bank.Ms. Snyder will discuss her background and experience working in the energy sector. In addition to her career path and current work, she will discuss how the Inter-American Development Bank is mainstreaming gender in the operations of the energy division. Biography Virginia is an Energy Sector Specialist at the Inter-American Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC. She works for the Infrastructure and Energy Sector where she is working on program and policy issues across Latin America and the Caribbean. She is leading Gender Initiatives for the Energy Sector, is the focal point for innovation and digitalization, and is co-leading and working in new initiatives such as the future Energy HUB for LAC. She works on technical and operational issues on diverse projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to her work at the IDB, she worked for the California Center for Sustainable Energy, where she was the Associate Program Manager for the California Solar Initiative (the US’s largest solar initiative) and worked for the US Department of Energy (DOE). She collaborated with the team members of DOE’s Solar Technologies Program working in the Solar America Cities program. Through this effort, 25 American cities have been working to accelerate the adoption of solar energy technologies for a cleaner and more secure energy future. Virginia earned an MBA from the University of San Diego, CA. — Registration is required. There is limited capacity for this event. We ask that you register only if you are sure you can attend this event in its entirety. For more information contact: [email protected].
https://www.youtube.com/live/uKG-yDvxzRo?si=oze-u-1IhRQNCINJ Since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022, the global gas market has witnessed considerable changes. This is particularly the case for the global...
https://youtu.be/BperazUqXx4?si=1AwY7TLj5-nYtEbq Electricity open access - which allows customers to procure electricity from different generators on the electricity grid - has been widely recognized as an important tool to...
https://www.youtube.com/live/beIgbyUg71I?si=2UkBasWH3HYumJ3O Rising electricity tariffs are a concern for consumers everywhere, affecting everything from household budgets to agricultural and industrial viability. Over a third of the households in the...
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While the United States (US) has facilities that can and do dispose of most low-level nuclear waste (LLW), it does not yet have a viable disposal pathway for two categories of waste: so-called greater-than-class-c (GTCC) nuclear waste, and nuclear waste with characteristics similar to it, or “GTCC-like.”
