Schedule – SETI 2021 Virtual Workshop

Here you can find the schedule for the SETI 2021 Virtual Workshop! This year the conference will take place on June 17-19, 09:00am-12:40pm Eastern Time, and will include policy, research, and flash talk sessions. If you want to participate in this conference, please complete a short survey here. We will reach to you in order to share the schedule with Zoom links.
Day 1 – Thursday, June 17
09:00 – 09:10: Opening Statements
By Gunnar Köhlin, Marcela Jaime and Marc Jeuland.
09:10 – 10:30. First policy session: Green Growth and Inclusive Decarbonization
Moderator: Robert Fetter (Duke University).

Lily Odarno
Clean Air Task Force

Carlos Muñoz
WRI Mexico

Kartikeya Singh
CSIS and SED Fund

Jay Taneja
UMass Amherst
10:30 – 10:40. Break
10:40 – 12:40. Research parallel sessions
1A: Energy transition
Chair: Sied Hassen
10:40 – 11:10. Chenxi Xiang. Is utility loss from mandate justified by unrealized gain? Evidence from heating energy transition program in China. Discussant: Leonardo Salazar.
11:10 – 11:40. Ashish Sedai. Electrification and Welfare for the Marginalized: Evidence from India. Discussant: Sied Hassen.
11:40 – 12:10. Matthew Shupler. Energy Insecurity Influences Urban Outdoor Air Pollution Levels during COVID-19 Lockdown in South-Central Chile. Discussant: Patrick Behrer.
12:10 – 12:40. Patrick Behrer. Earth, wind, and fire: The impact of anti-poverty efforts on Indian agriculture and air pollution. Discussant: Ashish Sedai.
1B: Cooking and environment
Chair: Marc Jeuland
10:40 – 11:10. Dawit Diriba Guta. Household Energy Transition and Suspension of Solid Fuel: Evidence from Indian Panel Data. Discussant: Marta Talevi.
11:10 – 11:40. Marta Talevi. Speaking from experience: preferences for cooking with biogas in rural India. Discussant: Marc Jeuland.
11:40 – 12:10. Adolfo Uribe. Private Benefits from Air Pollution Reduction Policies: Evidence from Across the Chilean Income Distribution. Discussant: Dawit Diriba Guta.
12:10 – 12:40. Raavi Aggarwal. Collective model of household consumption, production & labour supply: Evidence from Kenya. Discussant: Eshita Gupta.
1C: Electricity
Chair: Claudia Aravena
10:40 – 11:10. Shefali Khanna. Short- and Long-Run Consumption and Non-Payment Responses to Retail Electricity Prices in India. Discussant: Lunyu Xie.
11:10 – 11:40. Disha Gupta. Free Power, Irrigation and Groundwater Depletion: Impact of the Farm Electricity Policy of Punjab, India. Discussant: Nabaraj Gautam.
11:40 – 12:10. Matthias Galan. Contestation in the making: Studying perceptions of the interplay of global and local production networks in the Indian off-grid solar sector. Discussant: Disha Gupta.
12:10 – 12:40. Stefan Ambec. Unilateral carbon policy with electricity trade. Discussant: Matthias Galan.
1D: Energy demand
Chair: Walter Gómez
10:40 – 11:10. Abebe Damte Beyene. Prepaid meters and household electricity consumption, appliance ownership, and behavior: Evidence from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Discussant: Prachi Singh.
11:10 – 11:40. Daniel Abah. Trends of wood fuel production and consumption and the energy matrix in Nigeria (1990-2020): Implications on the household poverty level. Discussant: Walter Gómez.
11:40 – 12:10. Jennifer Meyer. Gendered Time-Saving Benefits of LPG Fuel Use. Discussant: Abebe Damte Beyene.
12:40 – . Social activity
Day 2 – Friday, June 18
09:00 – 09:10: Opening Statements
By Subhrendu Pattanayak and Mauricio Oyarzo.
09:10 – 10:30. Second policy session: Air pollution and energy transition in Chile
Moderator: Carlos Chávez (Universidad de Talca, Chile).

Pilar Lapuente
UN Environment

Rodrigo Fica
Ministerial Regional Service of Environment: Maule

Mario Delannays
Ministerial Regional Service of Environment: Biobío
10:30 – 10:40. Break
10:40 – 12:40. Research parallel sessions
2A: Air pollution
Chair: César Salazar
10:40 – 11:10. Bishal Bharadwaj. Impacts of Solar Subsidy: Evidence from Geographic Regression Discontinuity Design in Nepal. Discussant: Carlos Chávez.
11:10 – 11:40. Marcela Jaime. Fuelwood use and air pollution in urban Chile: Do poor and rich households contribute equally to this public bad? Discussant: Adolfo Uribe.
11:40 – 12:10. Maximiliane Sievert. Energy Efficiency and Local Rebound Effects: Theory and Experimental Evidence from Rwanda. Discussant: César Salazar.
12:10 – 12:40. César Salazar. Perceptions of problems and preferences for solutions: the case of poor air quality in central-southern Chile. Discussant: Maximiliane Sievert.
2B: Climate policy
Chair: Michael Toman
10:40 – 11:10. Siyu Feng. Innovation Trends in Electricity Storage: What Drives Global Innovation? Discussant: Manuel Estay.
11:10 – 11:40. Galina Alova. A machine-learning-based approach to investigating the impact of policies and market structures on technology choices and portfolio decarbonization by utility and independent power producer sectors internationally. Discussant: Robert Fetter.
11:40 – 12:10. Krishnapriya Parameswaran Perumbillissery. The puzzle of mitigating agricultural residue burning in India. Discussant: Michael Toman.
12:10 – 12:40. Nathaly Rivera. The Health Benefits of Solar Power Generation: Evidence from Chile. Discussant: Mauricio Oyarzo.
2C: Flash talks I
Chair: Subhrendu Pattanayak
10:40-10:55. Dawit Diriba Guta. Misalignment of households revealed and stated tree-species preferences for firewood in the South of Chile and implications for native forests.
10:55-11:10. Marcela Vanegas. From biomass to LPG: energy transition in rural communities of Patagonia, Argentina, and Covid-19 risks.
11:10-11:25. Rene Reyes. When energy transition lags economic growth: Persistence of fuelwood consumption in the South of Chile.
11:25-11:40. Ipsita Das. Willingness to pay for cooking fuels: results from a contingent valuation experiment in urban Kenya and Tanzania.
11:40-11-55. Frank Adusah-Poku. Re-examining the determinants of electricity demand in Ghana: The role of power crises in Ghana.
12:40 – . Social activity
Day 3 – Saturday, June 19
09:00 – 09:10: Closing remarks
By Marcela Jaime, Gunnar Köhlin and Cristóbal Vásquez.
09:10 – 10:30. Third policy session: Gender Mainstreaming in the Energy Transition
Moderator: Victoria Plutshack (Duke University).

Michael Tawiah
Ministry of Energy - Ghana

Joy Clancy
ENERGIA

Nathyeli Acuna
ESMAP

Lydia Muchiri
Practical Action - Kenya
10:30 – 10:40. Break
10:40 – 12:40. Research parallel sessions
3A: Energy, gender and development
Chair: María del Pilar López
10:40 – 11:10. Mukti Nath Subedi. The decentralized energy system, education, gender, and caste: Evidence from Nepal’s micro-hydropower (MHP). Discussant: Krishnapriya Parameswaran Perumbillissery.
11:10 – 11:40. Shivangi Jain. Eat, Drink, Man, Woman: Influence of Women’s Empowerment on Energy Technology Adoption in Myanma. Discussant: Mukti Nath Subedi.
11:40 – 12:10. Michael Hou. A Review of Impacts of Electricity Tariff Reform in Africa. Discussant: Meera Mahadevan.
12:10 – 12:40. Meera Mahadevan. Reducing Information Asymmetries in the Solar Market: Experimental Evidence from India. Discussant: Bishal Bharadwaj.
3B: Flash talks II
Chair: Mauricio Oyarzo
10:40-10:55. Julian Rose. The Role of Charcoal – A Comprehensive Value Chain Analysis in Senegal.
10:55-11:10. Yusuph John Kulindwa. Spillover effects of tree planting programs on household fuelwood supply in non-urban areas: A propensity score analysis.
11:10-11:25. Juan Fercovic López. Heating fuel choices in Chilean Households, and the Persistence of Wood Consumption.
11:25-11:40. Erin Litzow. The affordability challenge: Evaluating the role of consumer-targeted subsidies in alleviating energy poverty.