Publications
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Chronological List of CEIC Published
Papers, Books, Dissertations, and Reports
PhD Dissertations
"Limiting the Financial Risks of Electricity
Generation Capital Investments Under Carbon Constraints: Applications and
Opportunities for Public Policies and Private Investments", Adam Newcomer,
2008
"Emerging Electric Energy Storage
Technologies and Demand Response in Deregulated Electricity Markets",
Rahul S. Walawalkar, 2008
"The Economics of CO2 Transport by Pipeline and
Storage in Saline Aquifers and Oil Reservoirs", Sean T. McCoy 2008
"A Life Cycle Comparison of Coal and Natural Gas for Electricity
Generation and the Production of Transportation Fuels", Paulina Jaramillo,
2007
"A Decentralized Approach to Reducing the
Social Costs of Cascading Failures", Paul Hines, 2007
"An Electricity-focused Economic
Input-output Model: Life-cycle Assessment and Policy Implications of
Future Electricity Generation Scenarios", Joe Marriott, 2007
"U.S. Biomass Energy: An Assessment of Costs & Infrastructure for
Alternative Uses of Biomass Energy Crops as an Energy Feedstock", William
Morrow, 2006
"Capturing CO2 From Ambient Air: A
Feasibility Assessment", Joshuah K. Stolaroff, 2006.
"Valuing Risk-Reduction: Three applications
in the Electricity Industry.", Dalia Patiño Echeverri, 2006.
"Electric Power Micro-grids: Opportunities and
Challenges for an Emerging Distributed Energy Architecture", Douglas E.
King, 2006
"Network
Topologies and Transmission Investment Under Electric-Industry
Restructuring", Seth Adam Blumsack, 2006
"A Technical and Economic Assessment of CO2
Capture Technology for IGCC Power Plants", Chao Chen, 2005
"Future Electricity
Generation: An Economic and Environmental Life Cycle Perspective on Near-,
Mid- and Long-Term Technology Options and Policy Implications", Joule
Andrea Bergerson, 2005
Mapping Alternatives:
Facilitating Citizen Participation in Development Planning and
Environmental Decision Making, Shalini P. Vajjhala 2005
"The Economics and
Environmental Impacts of Large-Scale Wind Power in a Carbon Constrained
World", Joseph DeCarolis, 2004
"Two Essays
on Problems of Deregulated Electricity Markets", Dmitri Perekhodtsev, 2004
"Electric Power
Systems Under Stress: An Evaluation of Centralized Versus Distributed
System Architectures", Hisham Zerriffi, 2004
Reports, periodicals and other
publications
"Policy Brief on the Smart Metering,
Peak Load Reduction, and Efficiency Provisions of Pennsylvania House Bills
2200 and 2201"
"Generating Electricity from
Renewables: Crafting Policies that Achieve Society's Goals"
"Incentives for Near-Term Carbon
Dioxide Geological Sequestration"
Article
from the Spring 2007 Issues in Science and Technology, "Promoting
Low-Carbon Electricity Production"
Op-Ed Piece (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 25, 2007, page H1)
"Carbon Culprits"
Competitive Energy Options for Pennsylvania
Chapter 14 of Seeds of Disaster,
Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability
Comments on Wholesale and Retail Electricity Competition to the Electric
Energy Market Competition Interagency Task Force and the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission
Op-Ed Piece
(The New York Times, August 13, 2005) Electricity Traffic Control
The U.S. Electric
Power Sector and Climate Change Mitigation
Critical Electric Power Issues in Pennsylvania: Transmission, Distributed
Generation, and Continuing Services when the Grid Fails
Article from Summer 2004
Issues in Science & Technology, "Electrical Blackouts: A Systemic
Problem"
Op-Ed Piece (Pittsburgh Post Gazette, August 15, 2004) Let There Be
Light
Op-Ed Piece
(Washington Post, August 10, 2004, Page A19) "Blackouts Are
Inevitable"
Comments on
FERC Standard Market Design NOPR
Letter to Congress on Homeland
Security legislation.
Article from Issues in Science and Technology on improving the
security and survivability of the electric power system.
Science Debate on Wind Energy
CEIC-08-05: "Optimizing
Transmission from Distant Wind Farms"
Sompop Pattanariyankool and Lester B. Lave
CEIC-08-04: "The
Spectrum of Power from Utility-Scale Wind Farms and Solar Photovoltaic
Arrays"
Jay Apt and Aimee
Curtright
CEIC-08-03: "Electricity
Prices and Costs Under Regulation and Restructuring"
Seth Blumsack, Lester B. Lave, and Jay Apt
CEIC-08-02: "Short
Run Effects of a Price on Carbon Dioxide Emissions from U.S. Electric
Generators"
Adam Newcomer, Seth A. Blumsack, Jay Apt, Lester B. Lave, and M. Granger
Morgan
CEIC-08-01: "Trends
in the History of Large Blackouts in the United States"
Paul Hines, Jay Apt and Sarosh Talukdar
CEIC-07-15: "Measuring
the Benefits and Costs of Regional Electric Grid Integration"
Seth Blumsack
CEIC-07-14: "Do
RTOs Promote Renewables? A Study of State-Level Data over Time"
Kathleen Spees and Lester Lave
CEIC-07-13: "Analyzing
PJM's Economic Demand Response Program"
Rahul Walawalkar, Seth Blumsack, Jay Apt, and Stephen Fernands
CEIC-07-11: "Implications
of generator siting for CO2 pipeline infrastructure"
Adam Newcomer and Jay Apt
CEIC-07-10: "Storing
Syngas Lowers the Carbon Price for Profitable Coal Gasification"
Adam Newcomer and Jay Apt
CEIC-07-08: "A Centrality Measure for
Electrical Networks"
Paul Hines and Seth Blumsack
CEIC-07-07: "Deregulation/Restructuring,
Where Should We Go from Here?"
Lester Lave, Jay Apt, and Seth Blumsack
CEIC-07-06: "Should a coal-fired power
plant be replaced or retrofitted?"
Dalia Patiño-Echeverri, Benoît Morel, Jay Apt, and Chao Chen
CEIC-07-05: "The Character of Power
Output from Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Systems"
Aimee E. Curtright and Jay Apt
CEIC-07-04: "For Energy Security and
Greenhouse Gas Reductions, Plugin Hybrids a More Sensible Pathway than
Coal-to-Liquids Gasoline"
Paulina Jaramillo and Constantine Samaras
CEIC-07-03: "The Aging Workforce:
Electricity Industry Challenges and Solutions"
Lester B. Lave, Michael Ashworth and Clark Gellings
CEIC-07-02: "Impacts of Responsive Load
in PJM: Load Shifting and Real Time Pricing"
Kathleen Spees and Lester Lave
CEIC-07-01: "Demand Response and
Electricity Market Efficiency"
Kathleen Spees and Lester Lave
CEIC-06-12: "The Value of Using Coal
Gasification as a Long-Term Natural Gas Hedge for Ratepayers"
David C. Rode and Paul S. Fischbeck
CEIC-06-11: "Decomposing Congestion and
Reliability"
Seth Blumsack, Marija Ilić, and Lester B. Lave
CEIC-06-10: "Modeling the Operation and
Maintenance Costs of a Large Scale Tidal Current Turbine Farm"
Ye Li and H. Keith Florig
CEIC-06-09: "A Quantitative Analysis of
the Relationship Between Congestion and Reliability in Electric Power
Networks"
Seth Blumsack, Lester B. Lave, and Marija Ilić
CEIC-06-08: "Topological Elements of
Transmission Pricing and Planning"
Seth Blumsack, Lester B. Lave, and Marija Ilić
CEIC-06-07: "Planning for Natural
Disasters in a Stochastic World"
Lester B. Lave and Jay Apt
CEIC-06-06: "Power System Harmonic
State Estimation and Observability Analysis via Sparsity Maximization"
Huaiwei Liao
CEIC-06-05: "Learning from wind: A
framework for effective low-carbon energy diffusion"
Constantine T. Samaras
CEIC-06-04: "Economics of electric
energy storage for energy arbitrage and regulation in New York"
Rahul Walawalkar, Jay Apt, Rick Mancini
CEIC-06-03: "An options theory method
to value Electricity Financial Transmission Rights"
Dalia Patiño-Echeverri and Benoit Morel
CEIC-06-02: "Can the U.S. have reliable
electricity?"
Jay Apt, Lester B. Lave, M. Granger Morgan
CEIC-06-01: "The Spectrum of Power From
Wind Turbines"
Jay Apt
CEIC-05-09: "Lessons from the Failure
of U.S. Electricity Restructuring"
Seth A. Blumsack, Jay Apt, and Lester B. Lave
CEIC-05-08: "The
regulatory environment for interconnected electric power micro-grids:
insights from state regulatory officials"
Douglas E. King
CEIC-05-07: "Controlling
Cascading Failures with Cooperative Autonomous Agents"
Paul Hines and Sarosh Talukdar
CEIC-05-06: "Transmission
Line Reliability, Climate Change and Extreme Weather"
Gibson Peters, Tony DiGioia Jr., P.E.,Chris Hendrickson, and Jay Apt
CEIC-05-05: "CO2 capture
from ambient air: An example system"
Joshuah K. Stolaroff, Greg V. Lowry & David W. Keith
CEIC-05-04: "Controlling
Cascading Failures with Cooperative Autonomous Agents"
Paul Hines
CEIC-05-03: "A broad
assessment of manure to power technology and investigation of a potential
wind-biogas synergy"
Kyle Meisterling
CEIC-05-02: "A Technical
and Economic Assessment of Transport and Storage of CO2 in Deep Saline
Aquifers for Power Plant Greenhouse Gas Control"
Sean McCoy
CEIC-05-01: "Competition
Has Not Lowered US Industrial Electricity Prices"
Jay Apt
CEIC-04-09: "Autonomous
Agents and Cooperation for the
Control of Cascading Failures in Electric Grids"
Paul Hines, Huaiwei Liao, Dong Jia, and Sarosh Talukdar
CEIC-04-08: "Phase Transitions in the
Probability of Cascading Failures"
Huaiwei Liao, Jay Apt, Sarosh Talukdar
CEIC-04-07: "Distributed Model
Predictive Control for Electric Grids"
Paul Hines, Dong Jia, and Sarosh Talukdar
CEIC-04-06: "Are Renewables Portfolio
Standards Cost-effective Emission Abatement Policy?"
Katerina Dobesova, Jay Apt and Lester B. Lave
CEIC-04-05: " Clean air and affordable
electricity? "
Dalia Patiño-Echeverri, Zhiyong Wu and Marija Ilic
CEIC-04-04: " Comparative Assessments
of Fossil Fuel Power Plants With C02 Capture and Storage "
Edward S. Rubin, Anand B. Rao and Chao Chen
CEIC-04-03: "Rethinking Electricity
Deregulation"
Lester B. Lave, Jay Apt, and Seth Blumsack
CEIC-04-02: "Consumer Strategies for
Controlling Electric Water Heaters under Dynamic Pricing"
Chong Hock K. Goh and Jay Apt
CEIC-04-01: "Electrical
Blackouts: Repeating Our Mistakes"
Jay Apt, Lester B. Lave, Sarosh Talukdar, M. Granger
Morgan, and Marija Ilic
CEIC-03-18: "A Current
Study of Automatic Meter Reading Solutions via Power Line Communications"
Chong Hock K Goh
CEIC-03-17: "Guidance for Drafting
State Legislation to Facilitate the Growth of Independent Electric Power
Micro-Grids"
Douglas King and M. Granger Morgan
CEIC-03-16: "Market dynamics driven by
the decision-making of both power producers and transmission owners"
Anna Minoia, Damien Ernst, and Marija Ilic
CEIC-03-15: "Market dynamics driven by
the decision-making power producers"
Damien Ernst, Anna Minoia, and Marija Ilic
CEIC-03-14: "Maintaining Stability with
Distributed Generation in a Restructured Industry"
Judith Cardell and Marija Ilic
CEIC-03-13: "Temporal
Hotspots in Emission Trading Programs: Evidence From The Ozone Transport
Commission’s NOX Budget"
Alexander E. Farrell
CEIC-03-12: "Cascading
Failures: Survival vs. Prevention"
Sarosh N. Talukdar, Jay Apt, Marija Ilic, Lester B. Lave, and M. Granger
Morgan
CEIC-03-11: "Electric
Gridlock: A National Solution"
Jay Apt and Lester B. Lave
CEIC 03-10: "Introducing
Electric Power into a Multi-Disciplinary Curriculum for Network Industries"
Marija Ilic, Jay Apt, Pradeep Khosla, Lester Lave, Granger Morgan, Sarosh
Talukdar
CEIC 03-08: "Risk Analysis and Project
Capital Structures"
David C. Rode, Peter R. Lewis, and Paul S. Fischbeck
CEIC 03-07: "Distributed Power
Generation: Rural India – A Case Study"
Anshu Bharadwaj and Rahul Tongia
CEIC 03-06: "Transmission Line Siting:
A Quantitative Analysis of Transmission Demand and Siting Difficulty"
Shalini Vajjhala
CEIC 03-05: "A Life Cycle Analysis of
Electricity Generation Technologies:
Health and Environmental Implications of Alternative Fuels and
Technologies"
Joule Bergerson & Lester Lave
CEIC 03-04: "Should We Transport Coal,
Gas or Electricity: Cost, Efficiency & Environmental"
Joule Bergerson
CEIC 03-03: "The Cost of Regulatory
Uncertainty in Air Emissions for a Coal-fired Power Plant"
Dalia Patiño Echeverri
CEIC 03-02: "A Technical and Economic
Assessment of Selexol-based CO2 Capture Technology for IGCC
Power Plants"
Chao Chen
CEIC 03-01: "Fossil Electricity and CO2
Sequestration: How Natural Gas Prices, Initial Conditions and Retrofits
Determine the Cost of Controlling CO2 Emissions"
Timothy L. Johnson, David W. Keith
CEIC 02-09: “Is the Answer to Climate
Change Blowing In the Wind?”
Joseph DeCarolis, David W. Keith
CEIC 02-08: “A Power Quality Study of
Carnegie Mellon University.”
Yinglan Tan.
CEIC 02-07: "The Regulatory Environment
for Small Independent Micro-grid Companies" M. Granger Morgan and
Hisham Zerriffi
CEIC 02-06: "The Model of Pivotal
Oligopoly Applied to Electricity
Markets” Dimitri Perekhodstev, Lester B. Lave, Seth Blumsack.
CEIC 02-05: "Electricity and Conflict:
Advantages Of A Distributed
System." Hisham Zerriffi, Hadi Dowlatabadi, and Alex Farrell.
CEIC 02-04: "Emissions From Distributed
Generation." Neil D. Strachan
and Alex Farrell.
CEIC-02-03: "Modeling the Potential
Savings of an Air Conditioner Reset Demand Response Program." Peter
van der Heijden.
CEIC-02-02: "Residual Risk and the
Valuation of Leases under Uncertainty and Limited Information." David
C. Rode, Paul S. Fischbeck, and Steve R. Dean.
CEIC-02-01: "Monte Carlo Methods for
Appraisal and Valuation: A Case Study of a Nuclear Power Plant." David
C. Rode, Paul S. Fischbeck, and Steve R. Dean.
CEIC-01-05: "The First Year of the NOx
budget." Alexander E. Farrell.
CEIC-01-04: "Electricity and Conflict:
An Evaluation of Distributed Co-Generation as an Economic and Reliable
Solution." Hisham Zerriffi, Hadi Dowlatabadi, and Neil Strachan.
CEIC-01-03: "Distributed Generation and
Path Dependency." Neil Strachan.
CEIC-01-02: "Multi-lateral emission
trading: Implications for international efforts from two U.S. examples."
Alexander E. Farrell and M. Granger Morgan.
CEIC-01-01: "Capacity withholding
equilibrium in wholesale electricity markets." Lester B. Lave and
Dimitri Perekhodstev.
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