The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin established the Energy Management & Innovation Center to serve as a center of excellence to promote energy-related research and instruction. EMIC takes an integrative and multidisciplinary approach toward energy problems. EMIC aims to educate students in energy management and innovation, create intellectual capital of use to industry and policy-makers, and link the McCombs School’s activities to the university’s energy initiatives. 

• Read the results of the just-released second UT Energy Poll, an impartial, authoritative analysis of public opinion on energy.
• Read the most recent Energy Management Brief on Federal Regulation of Shale Gas Production by David Spence (opens as .pdf file).

DON'T FORGET...
May 17: Natural Gas Stakeholder Workshop. The Energy Management and Innovation Center is working with the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (“C2ES”, formerly the Pew Center on Global Climate Change) to examine the opportunities and challenges that increased natural gas supplies present for reducing US GHG emissions.

The principal elements of this initiative include:
1) A confidential full-day workshop to facilitate dialogue, share expertise, and gather input from key stakeholders;
2) A report, informed by stakeholder input, outlining the challenges of and strategies for leveraging the natural gas boom to reduce GHG emissions in the transportation, manufacturing and electricity sectors; and
3) An event in Washington, D.C. to highlight the report’s findings and to present a range of stakeholder and policymaker perspectives.

The opening stakeholder workshop is now scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 17, 2012 in Houston, Texas. Please contact tanya.andrien@mccombs.utexas.edu if you are interested in participating.