Publications and presentations by Sean Casten

2010

ENGG 174: Energy Conversion Technology , October 19, 2010
How the US makes electricity…and wastes energy, by Sean Casten.
GreenTown Chicago , October 14, 2010
Recycled energy: Is the future in front of us?, by Sean Casten.
Public Utilities Fortnightly, April 01, 2010
Fuel Swap, by Sean Casten.
SEEK 935: Environmental Management and Sustainability, Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, IL, January 21, 2010
CHP and Sustainability, by Sean Casten.

2009

Energy Efficiency Workshop, Glass Manufacturing Industry Council, Columbus, OH, October 15, 2009
Waste not, want not: generating power from glass plants, by Sean Casten and Melissa DeValles.
Chicago Council for Global Affairs — Energy and Environment Seminar, Chicago, IL, October 15, 2009
Energy recycling and national energy/environmental policy, by Sean Casten.
20th Annual NACFAM National Policy Conference, Washington, DC, October 06, 2009
Profitable greenhouse gas reduction via industrial waste recovery, by Sean Casten.
Spark, September 2009
Making a Rapid Stop, by Sean Casten.
Cleantech Forum, Boston, MA, September 10, 2009
Cleantech: Aligning entrepreneurship and innovation with government stimulus, by Sean Casten.
Renewable Energy World, August 24, 2009
Fight Climate Change Fast, by Sean Casten.
Alliance to Save Energy, Washington, DC, June 23, 2009
CHP: One of the answers (but not the question), by Sean Casten.
Electricity Journal, June 2009
A Better Renewable Portfolio System (RPS), by Sean Casten.
Chicago Tribune, May 31, 2009
Pollution Lightens Wallets, by Sean Casten.
WGN Radio, April 26, 2009
Morning Papers, by Rick Kogan.
YPO Energy Summit, Holyoke, MA, April 23, 2009
DIY: How businesses can install their own generation, by Sean Casten.
YPO Energy Summit, Holyoke, MA, April 23, 2009
Overview of retail energy markets, by Sean Casten.
The New Republic, April 15, 2009
Efficiency Means Much More Than Just CFLs, by Sean Casten.

2008

Distributed Generation/Combined Heat and Power Conference, Toronto, ON, September 23, 2008
The Economic Opportunity of Climate Change, by Sean Casten.
Cogeneration and On-Site Power Production, July/August 2008
After Lieberman-Warner, by Sean Casten.
KBOO-FM (Radiozine), July 29, 2008
Waste Heat Recovery, by Bruce Silvernan.
Spark, May 2008
Beyond Coal: No Longer Cheap—So What Next?, by Sean Casten.
The New York Times, March 27, 2008
Needed: Efficient Power, by Sean Casten.
Chicago Area Mensa, Chicago, IL, January 19, 2008
Paying to Warm the Globe: Climate Crises and Opportunities, by Sean Casten.

2007

The Electricity Journal, November 2007
The Legal Case against Standby Rates, by Sean Casten and Myra Karegianes.
Public Utilities Fortnightly, November 2007
Deregulation, Phase II: Recent electricity pricing argues for faster, more extensive deregulation, by Sean Casten.
Dartmouth Energy Symposium, Hanover, NH, October 12, 2007
Energy and Science: Technology and Engineering Challenges to Energy Recycling, by Sean Casten., by Sean Casten.
Dartmouth Energy Symposium, Hanover, NH, October 12, 2007
Energy and Business: What Business Is—And Isn’t—Doing to Address Our Energy Challenges, by Sean Casten.
Combined Heat and Power/Distributed Generation and Emerging Fuels Conference, Little Rock, AR, June 26, 2007
Trends in U.S. Energy Markets: Challenges and Opportunities, by Sean Casten.
Senate Finance Committee—Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure Subcommittee, May 24, 2007
Senate Testimony, by Sean Casten.
Energy Efficiency Finance Forum, New York City, April 12, 2007
Combined Heat and Power, Recycled Energy, and the Goldilocks Opportunity, by Sean Casten.

2006

UMass/NECHP RAC CHP Workshop, Springfield, MA, September 29, 2006
Remarks, by Sean Casten.
NARUC 2006 Summer Committee Meeting, Committee on Electricity and ERA, San Francisco, CA, August 02, 2006
Making the Legal Case for Good Policy on Standby Rate Design, by Sean Casten.
Tufts Clean Distributed Energy Workshop, Medford, MA, June 08, 2006
Distributed Energy’s Role in a Sustainable, Carbon-Constrained Future., by Sean Casten.

2005

Power, February 2005
Recycling Waste Pressure into Electricity, by Sean Casten.

2004

Public Utilities Fortnightly, December 2004
Cross-Subsidies: Getting the Signals Right, by Sean Casten and Joshua Meyer.
Fuel Ethanol Workshop and Tradeshow, Madison, WI, June 24, 2004
Towards the Biorefinery: Recycling Energy Waste in Dry Mills to Generate Electricity and Enhance Plant Profitability, by Sean Casten.

2003

Cogeneration and Competitive Power Journal, (Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 7-25), Winter 2003
Approaching Free Electricity: How the Real-World Differs from Thermodynamic Models, by Sean Casten and Tom O'Brien.
World Energy Engineering Congress, Atlanta, GA, November 12, 2003
Five Aces and a Winking Dealer: Causes of the U.S. Failure to Modernize its Electric System, by Sean Casten.
World Energy Engineering Congress, Atlanta, GA, November 12, 2003
Free Electricity: Making the Most of a CHP System Design, by Sean Casten.
Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment, (Vol. 23, No. 2), Fall 2003
Five Aces and a Winking Dealer: The Costs of and Reasons for the U.S.’s Failure to Invest in Energy, by Sean Casten.
Boston Area Solar Energy Association, Cambridge, MA, June 12, 2003
Sustainability, CHP, and Energy Efficiency: Searching for the Win-Win, by Sean Casten.
The Electricity Journal, May 2003
Are Standby Rates Ever Justified? The Case Against Electric Utility Standby Charges as a Response to, by Sean Casten.
Northeast Regional Biomass Steering Committee Meeting, Lanham, NY, 2003
Technologies for Biomass CHP, by Sean Casten.

2001

Northeast Midwest Economic Review, November/December 2001
Transforming Electricity, by Tom Casten and Sean Casten.
U.S. Combined Heat and Power Association’s Regulatory Tool Box, Section 5, January 2001
A Legal History of U.S. Utility Regulation as it Relates to CHP, by Sean Casten.

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