ELAEE 2011 - ELAEE 2011 : Latin American Meeting on Energy Economics 2001

We are pleased to announce the third ELAEE: Latin American Meeting on Energy Economics, organized in association with the IAEE: “Energy, Climate Change and Sustainable Development- The Challenges for Latin America”, and we invite you to visit Buenos Aires. The conference is scheduled for April 18th and 19th, 2011 in the Convention Centre of the Universidad Católica Argentina.

The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is November 15, 2010. Abstracts, which have to be a concise text on the topic to be covered and the method of analysis, should be no longer than two pages. Your abstract has to include the following sections:

Overview

Methods

Expected Results

References

Please note that the official languages for the ELAEE are English, Portuguese, and Spanish, and that no abstract written in other language will be considered by the Committee.

If the abstract is accepted by the Program Committee, authors will be able to submit their complete paper until March 1st, 2011 to be published in the conference proceedings. If you whish to obtain more information regarding the submission procedure or submit your paper, please click HERE.

Conference Topics

International coal trade, risks and strategies
The insertion of coal in the energy mix
Electricity integration in Latin America
Electricity efficiency
Distributed generation
Electricity tariffs ? Key principles ? Social tariff
Energy and Macroeconomics
International oil markets
National and regional oil markets
National and regional electricity markets
Electricity prices, instability and uncertainty
LNG Economics
Wind Power Economics
Economics of Biofuels
The assessment of energy projects
Energy security and supply reliability
Energy vulnerability of Latin American countries
Energy demand forecasting
Energy sector modelling
The design of energy policies
Geopolitics of Global energy supply
Risk analysis of the energy sector
Oil & Gas exploration contracts
Gas integration in Latin America
Natural gas markets and infrastructure
Oil exploration and production in Latin America
Nuclear energy in Latin America
Nuclear power plants
Uranium mining
New technologies for nuclear reactors
Final disposal of nuclear residues
Nuclear energy: Hopes and reality
Hydroelectricity ? Characteristics of its development
Renewable energy ? integration to the energy mix
The assessment of renewable energy projects
Energy & Climate change
Carbon markets
Carbon capture and storage
Energy policies in the post-Kyoto times
The response of energy supply to natural disasters
Energy, development, and social integration
Rural electrification in Latin America
Energy efficiency in the transportation sector