Hearing: U.S.-China Clean Energy Cooperation: Status, Challenges and Opportunities

Friday, April 25, 2014

Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioners Robin Cleveland and Carte Goodwin

9:00 am – 9:10 am                   Commissioners’ Opening Statements

9:10 am – 9:50 am                   Panel I: Administration Perspectives

• Ms. Leocadia Zak, Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA), Arlington, VA (Testimony)

10:00 am – 11:30 am               Panel II: U.S.-China Clean Energy Cooperation Policy

• Dr. Joanna Lewis, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, DC (Testimony)
• Ms. Sarah Forbes, Senior Associate, World Resources Institute, Washington, DC (Testimony)
• Ms. Jane Nakano, Fellow, Energy and National Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC (Testimony)

11:45 am – 1:15pm                 Panel III: Case Studies of U.S.-China Energy Cooperation

• Dr. Jerald J. Fletcher, Director, Advanced Coal Technology Consortium, U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center; Professor, Energy, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (Testimony)
• Dr. Huei Peng, Professor, Mechanical Engineering; U.S. Director, U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center-Clean Vehicle Consortium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (Testimony)
• Dr. Valerie Karplus, Project Director, China Energy and Climate Project, MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Cambridge, MA (Testimony)