Chapter 4: Expanding Energy Supply

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1. Natural Gas - Overview

Natural Gas Issues for the U.S. Industrial and Power Generation Sectors, Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc.

• Natural Gas Issues for the U.S. Industrial and Power Generation Sectors - Executive Summary
• Natural Gas Issues for the U.S. Power Generation
• Natural Gas Price Impacts and Implications for U.S. Industry

Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline

• Increasing US Natural Gas Supplies
  National Commission on Energy Policy Report

Liquefied Natural Gas

• U.S. Reliance on International Liquefied Natural Gas Supply
  James Jensen, Jensen Associates
• The Safety of Liquefied Natural Gas
  Staff Background Paper

Land-Use Planning and Permitting

• A Review of Energy Development in the West
  Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

Methane Hydrates

• Methane Hydrates in Context – U.S. Natural Gas Overview
  Staff Background Paper

2. Advanced Coal Technologies

IGCC/Carbon Capture and Storage

• IGCC: Next Step on the Path to Gasification Based Energy from Coal Robert Williams, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University

Upstream Coal Issues

• Coal: Planning its Future and its Legacy
  J. Davitt McAteer, Wheeling College

Deployment Assistance

• Deploying IGCC in this Decade with 3Party Covenant Financing
  William Rosenberg, Energy Technology Innovation Project, BCSIA, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and the Center for Clean Air Policy
• Technical Memorandum: Supporting Documentation for Commission IGCC/CCS Recommendation
  Joe Chaisson, Clean Air Task Force; Tom Bechtel, Retired Director Department of Energy Technology Center; Rusty Mathews, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, LLP

3. Renewable Electricity Technologies

State Programs

• Energy at the State Level
  Business Council for Sustainable Energy

4. Non-Petroleum Transportation Fuels

Hydrogen

• Toward Polygeneration of Fluid Fuels and Electricity via Gasification of Coal and Biomass
  Robert Williams, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University
• Hydrogen and Fuel Cells, Technology and Policy Overview
  Joseph Romm, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions

Cellulosic Ethanol

• Cellulosic Ethanol Fact Sheet, Lee Lynd, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth University; Lester Lave,
  Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
• Role of Biomass in America’s Energy Future
  Nathanael Greene, National Resources Defense Council; Lee Lynd Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
• Technical Review of the Potential of Bioethanol
  Charles Mann, Private Consultant
• The Car and Fuel of the Future
  Joseph Romm, Center for Energy and Climate Solutions