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Paul
Komor is a
Lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of
Colorado–Boulder, and a Senior Advisor at E
SOURCE, a
Boulder-based energy
research firm. His current research is on renewable energy technologies
and
policies, and their relationship to electric utility restructuring. He
currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in energy policy
and
technology at CU-Boulder. In 2001 he was awarded the Diebold Foundation
Fellowship for European policy studies, and spent 2001 as a Visiting
Academic
in the Environmental
Policy Group at Imperial College, London.
Prior
to joining the
University
of Colorado faculty, he was a Project Director at the U.S. Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment
(OTA), where he worked with both House and Senate Congressional
Committees in
preparing and evaluating energy legislation. His 1992 report, "Building
Energy Efficiency", played a major role in the debates that
culminated
in the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Prior to joining OTA, he taught at
the
Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He holds a B.S. from
Cornell
University, and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He has
published
numerous refereed articles, reports, and other papers; and in 2004
published a
book, Renewable Energy Policy,
that compares U.S. and EU
experiences with renewable energy policies.
In
2005, Paul was selected as the 2006 MAP/Ming Visiting
Professor of Energy and the Environment at Stanford University. Paul
will spend 6 months at Stanford University in 2006, researching and
teaching on renewable energy policy and technology.
Courses:
- AREN 4830/CVEN 5830 'Energy Technology and Policy,' fall 2006
- ENVS 5820/7820 'Renewable Energy Policy,' spring 2005
- ENVS 5100 'Energy Field Course,' fall 2005
- ENVS 5100
'Energy Policy Seminar,' fall 2006
Student
evaluations of past courses
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