​Yale Planetary Solutions Catalyst Consortium  invites you to a Collaborative Conversation: Energy Security: Maintaining Operational Resilience in the Face of Disruptions

​We are in an era of rapid change, marked by high levels of uncertainty and increasing threats to energy systems. In the face of energy-related disruptions, how can companies effectively balance the tradeoffs between cost efficiency and resiliency?

​Companies often face two conflicting priorities: to enhance operational efficiency and to increase the resiliency and adaptability of their operations. Efficiency helps companies manage rising costs and meet growing demands but often at the expense of resiliency to low-probability, high-consequence energy risks or adaptability to new conditions. Efforts to build resiliency and adaptability may impose additional up-front costs but ensure that operations can continue even amidst disruptions. How can companies determine the optimal balance? 

​In this webinar, Yale faculty experts will delve into these complex dynamics through highly interactive conversations with corporate attendees. Faculty will examine tradeoffs and explore various technologies and frameworks that enhance efficiency, resiliency, and/or adaptability. They will draw on expertise in areas including energy costs, grid resilience, oil and gas, new energy technologies, energy storage, systems modeling, and the history of energy. Ideas generated during this webinar may be further developed through the Catalyst Consortium. 

​Corporate attendees will be invited to contribute their perspectives on the relevance of these challenges to their companies. What problems are they trying to solve? What information do they need to make better decisions? 

​The conversation will be highly interactive and include active participation and questions from attendees. Please feel free to submit any questions in advance to [email protected]. This will enable panelists to focus on common pain points related to these issues. 

​​This webinar is tailored for chief sustainability officers, chief supply chain officers, and senior leaders focused on resilience, supply chains, sustainability, environmental risk management, and related strategic areas, along with Yale faculty engaged in these topics.

​​Registrations will be reviewed, and confirmation with the event link will be sent via email.

​​Come be part of the conversation!

​Moderator

​Peter Boyd

​Lecturer; Resident Fellow, Yale Center for Business and the Environment; Co-Chair of Expert Peer Review Group, Race To Zero

​Peter is a Lecturer at the Yale School of the Environment and Resident Fellow at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. Outside Yale, he is Founder & CEO of Time4Good, helping Leaders and their teams, build purpose-driven paths to maximum positive impact. He teaches and coaches on ‘Connected Leadership’ with his Yale/Coursera online course reaching over 100,000 people enrolled across the world. ‘The Hunt | Job-Searching and Career-Building with Purpose’ is a new shorter course, just launched.

​Peter is Co-Chair of the Race To Zero Expert Peer Review Group and on the board of ‘Sustainable Westport’ in his hometown. He is a former COO for Sir Richard Branson’s Carbon War Room and long-time executive in the Virgin Group.

​Panelists

​Kenneth Gillingham

​Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs; Grinstein Class of 1954 Professor of Environmental and Energy Economics 

​Professor Gillingham is the Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Yale School of the Environment and a professor of economics at Yale, with a primary appointment at the School of the Environment and secondary appointments in the Department of Economics and School of Management. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2015-2016, he served as the Senior Economist for Energy and the Environment at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. He is an energy and environmental economist drawing from the fields of applied microeconomics, behavioral economics, industrial organization, and integrated assessment modeling of climate change. He has published widely on consumer decisions and policy in transportation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. His work has been published in top-tier journals such as Science, Nature, PNAS, Journal of Political Economy, AEJ: Economic Policy, RAND Journal of Economics, Quantitative Economics, Management Science, Marketing Science, Journal of the Association of Environmental & Resource Economists, and the Journal of Environmental Economics & Management. 
  
Prior to joining the Yale faculty, he worked at the California Air Resources Board, White House Council of Economic Advisers, Stanford Energy Modeling Forum, Resources for the Future, and Joint Global Change Research Institute of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.  He also the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to New Zealand.  His Ph.D. is from Stanford University, where he studied management science & engineering and economics. Before beginning a career as an economist, he was a wilderness ranger in Wyoming and New Hampshire. 

​Lea Winter

​Assistant Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering

​Lea Winter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Yale in 2015 and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow in 2020. She completed postdoctoral training as a Nanotechnology Enabled Water Treatment (NEWT) Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale in 2022. Her research focuses on electrified processes at the food, energy, water, and climate nexus, including development of sustainable and circularized processes for conversion of greenhouse gases, green nitrogen fixation, and wastewater treatment and resource recovery. Dr. Winter is a 2024 Beckman Young Investigator Awardee (one of 10 nationally across chemical and biological sciences), 2024 DOE Early Career Awardee, and 2025 CT Technology Council Woman of Innovation Award for Research Innovation and Leadership. 

​Michael Oristaglio

​Senior Research Scientist, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Yale University; Senior Technical Advisor, Carbon Containment Lab 

​Michael Oristaglio is co-founder of the Energy Studies Interdisciplinary Certificate program in Yale College and was its inaugural director from 2013 to 2025. He is a senior research scientist and lecturer in energy geoscience in the Yale Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences and a founding faculty member of the program in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy at Yale School of the Environment. He also serves as a senior technical advisor of the Carbon Containment Lab, a research and educational not-for-profit based in New Haven. CC Lab applies scientific, entrepreneurial, and investment expertise to create an enabling environment for emergent climate solutions. From 2012 to 2016, he was executive director of Yale Climate & Energy Institute. Oristaglio has also served as a research manager for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) on collaborative industry projects designed to advance applied Earth science for industry and public benefit. In October 2020, he gave the opening keynote address at the SEG annual meeting on the occasion of the society's 90th Anniversary. Before coming to Yale in 2009, he spent 25+ years as a scientist and research manager in the energy and geophysical services industries with Schlumberger (now, slb). His research specialty is geophysical remote sensing and his current research focuses on characterizing potential underground reservoirs for carbon sequestration. 

​Paul Sabin

​Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History and Professor of American Studies

​Paul Sabin is the Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History at Yale University, where he teaches and writes about environmental and energy history and U.S. political and legal history.  Sabin is the faculty director for the Yale Environmental Humanities Program and co-chair of the Yale College Environmental Studies Program.

​Sabin’s recent book, Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism (2021), examines the evolution and impact of the public interest environmental law movement in the United States since the 1960s. He also is the author of The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble Over Earth’s Future (2013) and Crude Politics: The California Oil Market, 1900-1940 (2005). Sabin is the editor of Energy History Online and has authored numerous essays on U.S. energy history and policy. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of California, Berkeley, and spent a year as the Newcomen Post-Doctoral Fellow in business history at the Harvard Business School.