Latest Past Events

Luskin Center Sponsored Networking Event with Young Professionals in Energy – Los Angeles Chapter

Hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be served at this networking event, which will be highlighted by a talk from Luskin Center Director J.R. DeShazo. Dr. DeShazo's recent solar policy report, “Designing an Effective Feed-in Tariff for Greater Los Angeles,” received notable media coverage from the Los Angeles Times, KCRW and other major outlets. UCLA students […]

An Evening with Eric Pooley of Bloomberg Businessweek

Eric Pooley is the author of the book "The Climate War", and the Deputy Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the former Managing Editor of Fortune, and Chief Political Correspondent for Time. His book "Climate War" examines the history of the climate change debate in Washington, focusing on answering the question of why, after all […]

Brown to Green: Turning Los Angeles’ Brown Power Infrastructure Green through a Feed-in Tariff

While the City of Los Angeles stumbles toward greening it’s power infrastructure with renewable sources, a proven method of quickly and affordably reaching this goal has been analyzed for use in Southern California; this method is a feed-in-tariff (FiT). A proven concept in Germany, Spain and now Italy, feed-in-tariffs are a mechanism for a power […]