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am an assistant professor in the department of energy and mineral engineering at penn state university. i teach undergraduate courses and advise students in the energy business and finance
program. i also teach public policy and economics courses to
graduate students in the earth and mineral sciences college. my
research interests include energy and electric power systems,
network and graph theory, regulatory economics, antitrust and
competition policy, industrial
organization, and the economics of infrastructure. My dissertation examined several implications of the braess paradox
for network behavior and transmission investment, planning, and pricing in electric power
systems. my previous work has included developing a
market-structure metric for electric power systems that takes account
of the technological idiosyncrasies of electricity and calculating the
costs involved in transitioning to competitive electric power
markets. i earned my ph.d. through the department of engineering and public policy at carnegie mellon, and was associated with the carnegie mellon electricity industry center. my dissertation was supervised by
lester lave, marija ilic, jay apt, and sarosh talukdar.
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ennec 100: introduction to environmental and earth resources economics, fall 2007.
em sc 304: environmental management, spring 2008.
egee 525: theory and practice of policy analysis for engineers, spring 2008.
em sc 420: energy and modern society, fall 2008.
73-428/19-624: the transformation
of energy markets, spring 2005, carnegie mellon. [syllabus]
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- "the real problem with merchant transmission," with lester lave and marija ilic, electricity journal, forthcoming.
- "the short run
economic and environmental effects of a carbon tax on u.s. electric
generation," with adam newcomer, jay apt. lester lave and m. granger
morgan, environmental science and technology, forthcoming [link to web version and es&t press release].
- "a centrality measure for electrical networks," with paul hines, proceedings of the 41st hawaii international conference on system sciences, january 2008. [pdf]
- "deregulation/restructuring part i: re-regulation will not fix the problems," with lester lave and jay apt, electricity journal 20:8, pp 9 - 22. [pdf]
- "deregulation/restructuring part ii: where do we go from here," with lester lave and jay apt, electricity journal 20:9, pp 10 - 23. [pdf]
- "a quantitative
analysis of the relationship between congestion and reliability in
electric power networks," with lester lave and marija ilic, energy journal october 2007. [working paper pdf]
- "measuring the benefits and costs of regional electric grid integration," energy law journal, april 2007.
- "separability and independence of congestion and reliability: theory and simulations," to be published in the proceedings of the ieee power engineering society general meeting, summer 2007 [.pdf]
- "topological elements of transmission pricing and planning," working paper, with lester lave and marija ilic [.pdf]
- "decomposing congestion and reliability," working paper, with marija ilic and lester lave [.pdf]
- "network decomposition via graph theory and watts-strogatz clustering," working paper, [.pdf]
- "the braess paradox in electric power networks," working paper, with marija ilic [.pdf]
- "a quantitative
analysis of the relationship between congestion and reliability in
electric power networks," with lester lave and marija ilic, papers
and proceedings of the 26th north american conference,
international association for energy economics, september 2006. [.pdf]
- "network topologies and transmission investment under electric-industry restructuring," doctoral dissertation, may 2006 [.pdf]
- "lessons from the failure of u.s. electricity restructuring," with lester lave and jay apt, electricity journal, march 2006. also translated into japanese.
- "some implications of braess' paradox in electric power systems," working paper, jan 2006 [.pdf]
- "the efficiency of point-to-point financial transmission rights is limited by the network topology," working paper, jan 2006. [.pdf]
- "a cautionary tale: u.s. electricity
sector reform," with lester lave and jay apt, economic and
political weekly 40:50, november 2005.
- "rethinking electricity
deregulation," with lester lave and jay apt, electricity
journal november 2004.
- "mitigating pivotal
suppliers in deregulated electricity markets," with lester lave, papers
and proceedings of the 24th north american conference,
international association for energy economics, july 2004. [.pdf]
- "market power in deregulated
wholesale electricity markets: issues in measurement and the cost of
mitigation," with lester lave and dmitri perekhodtsev, electricity
journal, november 2002.
- "a theory of pivotal
oligopoly for electricity markets," with dmitri perekhodtsev and
lester lave, working paper, 2002.
- "managing peak demand in
public power systems," with chantal brandon and dmitri
perekhodtsev, american public power association deed technical award
paper, 2001.
- "how to make power markets
competitive," with sam van vactor, in electricity pricing in
transition, 2001, ahmad faruqui and kelly eakin, eds., kluwer
academic publishing.
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| awards/honors: |
- william
w. cooper doctoral dissertation award for "outstanding doctoral
dissertation in management or the management sciences," tepper school
of business, carnegie mellon university, may 2006.
- best poster award at the technology,
policy, and management graduate consortium, cambridge ma, june 2005. [poster
pdf]
- herbert l. toor award for
"outstanding research paper submitted in the qualifying
examinations of the department of engineering and public policy,"
february 2004.
- deed technical grant, american
public power association, with chantal brandon and dmitri perekhodtsev,
december 2001.
- william larimer mellon
scholarship, graduate school of industrial administration, carnegie
mellon university, academic years 2001/2002 and 2002/2003.
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| professional: |
- assistant professor, department of energy and mineral engineering, penn state university.
- adjunct research professor, carnegie mellon electricity industry center.
- postdoctoral
research fellow, tepper school of business, carnegie mellon university,
affiliated with the carnegie mellon electricity industry center, 2006 - 2007.
- ph.d. student, department of
engineering and public policy, carnegie mellon university, supported
by the carnegie mellon electricity industry center, august 2003 - 2006.
- economist, economic insight,
inc., portland oregon, 1998 - 2001.
- editor and contributor, the
energy market report, portland oregon, 1998 - 2001.
- editor, pacific west oil data,
1999 - 2001.
- economics intern, oregon
department of fish and wildlife, portland oregon, 1997.
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| education: |
- ph.d. department of
engineering and public policy, carnegie mellon university, may 2006.
- m.s. economics, graduate school
of industrial administration, carnegie mellon university, 2003.
- m.s. coursework in statistics
(unfinished), portland state university, 1998 - 1999.
- b.a. mathematics/economics, reed
college, 1998.
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- submitted comments on
the state of retail and wholesale electricity markets to ferc and the
intergovernmental task force on electric market competition with jay
apt and lester lave, november 2005.
- designed and taught
interdisciplinary course on energy markets for advanced undergraduates
and graduate students in economics and engineering, spring 2005.
[syllabus]
- "mitigating pivotal
suppliers in deregulated electricity markets," presentation given
at the 24th north american conference of the international association
for energy economics, july 2004.
- "market power and mitigation in
deregulated electricity markets," seminar given to the carnegie
mellon electricity industry center, march 2004.
- submitted comments on ferc
supplier margin assessment test for market power with lester lave and
dmitri perekhodtsev, january 2004.
- submitted comments on ferc
standard market design with lester lave and dmitri perekhodtsev,
november 2002.
- "market power and pivotal
firms," with lester lave, seminar given to the carnegie mellon
electricity industry center, september 2002.
- "measuring market power in
deregulated electricity markets," with dmitri perekhodtsev and
lester lave, seminar given to the carnegie mellon electricity industry
center, september 2002.
- expert testimony on the
competitiveness of the gasoline market in portland oregon for the city
of sherwood oregon, february 2001.
- "gas and electricity in the
wscc: price levels and volatility," seminar given to the pacific
northwest gas/electric integration group, december 2000.
- "five-year outlook for
gasoline and distillates," with sam van vactor and peter stiffler,
report to the oregon department of energy, december 2000.
- "blowin' in the wind: enso
and the oregon coastal sport fishery," b.a. thesis, reed college
1998.
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