Visions of IT and Energy

How will the revolution in Information Technology affect the way energy is supplied and used in the United States? This is the question that Dan Reicher, Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, posed to the Environment and Natural Resources Program (ENRP).

Henry Lee, Director of ENRP, and his colleagues convened a panel of several of the top experts in the U.S. to participate in the Department''s E-Vision 2000 conference held in Washington, DC in October. Participants included Harvard Professor Dale Jorgenson; Brad Allenby, Vice-President of AT&T; Bruce Stram, Vice President of Enron Energy Services; Bill Reed, Vice President of SEMPRA; Chuck Miller, CEO of ProcureZone; Karl E. Stahlkopf, Vice-President of EPRI; and Joseph Romm, Executive Director of the Global Environment & Technology Foundation.

The panel debated many facets of this issue and identified the most important future research questions that the Department should explore. A report synthesizing the panel''s discussions and containing papers authored by the participants is being prepared by the RAND corporation and will be available this spring.

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