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IEW HISTORY
The original idea of establishing the International Energy Workshop (IEW) was introduced by Alan S. Manne, one of the founding fathers of energy economics and a long-time professor at Stanford University, who, together with IIASA, organized the first IEW meeting at Stanford in December 1981, thereafter serving as its senior co-director.
The motivation for the first IEW meeting was partly inspired by the Stanford-based Energy Modeling Forum (EMF). One of the EMF's functions is to compare energy projections. Modeling teams closely interact to apply their models to the same topic and using a largely standardized set of assumptions. This type of close cooperation was beyond the reach of this established network that aimed at analyzing international energy studies. The IEW has therefore taken the practical approach and asks for the results first and later worries about the method that led to them without attempting to provide feedback.
From 1981 to 1997, the IEW published annual editions of the IEW Poll, which documented GDP, energy and carbon dioxide emission projections for the world and major world regions. The data base behind these publications contributed to the 'Morita Database', which was compiled as a basis for the IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES).
For several years until 2009 the IEW annual meeting was organized by Leo Schrattenholzer and Joseph E. Aldy, who served as the two co-directors. Both were supported by the International Energy Agency (IEA)’s contribution. EPRI has also provided financial support to the organization of several IEW workshops.
In January 2009 Joseph E. Aldy was appointed Special Assistant to the President for Energy and the Environment in the White House, whilst on April 24th, 2009, Leo Schrattenholzer unexpectedly passed away. In June 2009 three new co-directors were elected by the Steering Committee to provisionally run the International Energy Workshop:
FEEM is currently maintaining the web-services of the IEW.
Steering Committee
A Steering Committee advises the co-directors about the general line of the IEW and its annual meetings. Current members of the Steering Committee are:
- Fatih Birol, International Energy Agency (IEA), France. Alternate: Laura Cozzi
- Carlo Carraro, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Alison Hughes, Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Kejun Jiang, Energy Research Institute (ERI), China
- Shunsuke Mori, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
- Richard Richels, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), USA
- Holger Rogner, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Austria. Alternates: Mark Howells and Ferenc Toth
- Giancarlo Tosato, Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme (ETSAP), Italy
- David Victor, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA
- John Weyant, Energy Modeling Forum (EMF), USA
Publications
Past publications of the International Energy Workshop are available on the IIASA web-site at:
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/ECS/IEW/publications.html.
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