The paper EMAN 410 explores contemporary issues in the energy sector, focusing on the New Zealand context. Each year, a series of seminars takes place on topics relating to energy policy. Notes from these seminars can be downloaded from below. (Links still being added.)
EMAN 410 Seminar Series Downloads
2014 EMAN410 seminar series
- Sam Thornton - "Energy Policy from a Government Department perspective" Part 1Part 2
- Hon Gareth Hughes - "A Green Energy Policy"
- Prof Ralph Sims - "Relevance of ICCP findings to New Zealand and Government inaction" Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5
- Dr Ralph Chapman - "Maybe we underestimated this one: climate change rethinking and resistance"
- Dr Ian Lowe - "Energy for Sustainable Futures" Part 1Part 2Part 3
2013 EMAN 410 seminar series
- Carl Hansen - "Regulation of the NZ electricity markets" (PDF format 2.1 MB)
- Assoc Prof Iain MacGill - "Renewables in the Australian National Electricity Market - current status, future prospects" Part 1 (PDF format 2 MB), Part 2 (PDF format 2 MB), Part 3 (PDF format 2 MB)
- Murray Grimwood - "Considering a case for energy descent" (PDF download 1 MB)
- Hon David Parker - "Labour/Green Party Electricity Policy" (PDF download 720 KB) part 2 (PDF download 300 KB)
- Jake Roos - "Sustainable energy in practice - ten years out in the 'real world'"
2012 EMAN 410 seminar series
- Adrian Kerr Energy Efficient Water Heating – Review of the 2007 – 2012 EECA Program (PDF download 9.4 MB)
- Ralph Sims Energy-smart food policies for NZ - a world leader or a world laggard? (PDF download 29 MB)
- Mark Diesendorf Scenarios and Policies for 100% Renewable Electricity in New Zealand and Australia (PowerPoint download 4 MB)
- Ralph Chapman Averting dangerous climate change: accelerating the energy transition (PDF download 1.6 MB)
- Eric Pyle Wind energy in NZ: 20% wind by 2030 (PowerPoint download 6.8 MB)
2011 EMAN 410 seminar series
2010 EMAN 410 seminar series
- Jake Roos Action for Sustainable Buildings -– A NZ/UK Comparison (PDF download 3.3 MB)
- Mike O'Connell Preparing for an uncertain future: regional energy resilience in Canterbury (PDF download 2.8 MB)
- Ralph Sims Technology, the solution to climate change – or is it people? (PDF download 19.9 MB)
- David Caygill The Role of Regulation in the Management of New Zealand's Electricity (PDF download 48 KB)
- Richard Heinberg Peak Oil, Peak Economy (PDF download 4.1 MB)
2009 EMAN 410 seminar series
- Greg Sise Energy Link "Have Electricity Market Reforms Empowered Consumers? " (PDF download 691 KB)
- Kieren Devine "NZ power system in balance" (PDF download 2.9 MB)
- Jim Salinger "Climate Change: Why we have to get off the carbon intensive gravy train" (PDF download 9.3 MB)
- Susan Krumdieck " Energy Myths" (PDF download 1.5 MB)
- John Peet "If money is the problem, why is it also the solution" (PDF download 1.6 MB)
2008 EMAN 410 seminar series
- David Parker 2008 "Energy Policy in NZ" (PDF download 2.2 MB)
- Mike O'Connell 2008 "Power up Canterbury: threats to and opportunities for a sustainable energy future" (PDF download 4.4 MB)
- William Catton 2008 "Homo Colossus, the Prosthetic Species" (PDF download 1.4 MB)
- John Peet 2008 (PowerPoint download 9.3 MB)
- Robert Trommop 2008 "Sustainable Energy, Indicators and Opportunities; from One Big World and 3 Small Islands" (PDF download 274 KB)
2007 EMAN 410 seminar series
- Muriel Watt 2007 "Australian and New Zealand Energy Strategies" (PDF download 704 KB)
- Sharon Beder 2007 "The great electricity con" (PDF download 121 KB)
- Ralph Chapman 2007 "Climate Change Science and Policy ENergy Implications" (PDF download 707 KB)
- David Parker 2007 "Powering the Future" (PDF download 1.2 MB)
- Susan Krumdieck 2007 '"What is Sustainability About, Really?" (PDF download 3.2 MB)
2006 EMAN 410 seminar series
- Joseph Mayhew EECA (PDF download 386 KB)
- Roy Hemmingway Electricity Commission (PDF download 210 KB)
- George Hooper Cenre for Advanced Engineering (PDF download 3.5 MB)
- Greg Sise Energy Link "What is wrong with the electricity market? "
- Jeanette Fitzsimons "Energy Challenges in the 21 Century" (PDF download 2.8 MB)
- Muriel Watt "Renewable Energy Policy in Australia" (PDF download 1.7 MB)