Position:
Core Staff
Assistant Professor
Email:
jxjohns@umich.edu
Website:
Office Location:
3508 Dana Building, 440 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1041
Degrees:
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, Yale University, 2007
M.S., Environmental Engineering, Yale University, 2004
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University, 2001
Research Interests:
His research interests include measuring the impacts of grid-connected renewable energy on the power system, investigating challenges of renewable integration, and developing methods for more informed generation resource planning. Other areas of investigation include material flow analysis and forecasting material use impacts stemming from changing generation portfolios.
Projects:
- A Dynamic and Streamlined Stakeholder Engagement Tool for Evaluating Carbon Mitigation Options from Existing Power Plants in Michigan
- Environmental Impacts of Using Distributed Energy Storage for Power System Reserves
- Evaluation of Alternative Design Considerations for Renewable Portfolio Standards
- Integrated resource planning (IRP) as a framework to guide electric utility decision in Michigan
- M-CUBED 2.0: Improving the energy efficiency of buildings participating in power system ancillary services
- PISET: Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Providing Power System Reserves with Demand Response and Distributed Energy Storage
- Public Transport Systems and Infrastructure Solutions to Reduce Fossil Fuel Dependence on Hawaii Island
- Southeast Michigan Regional Energy Office Municipal Street Lighting Consortium
- U.S.-China: Integrated Systems Modeling of Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus for Urban Sustainability
- Value of Wind Diversity for Increased Integration of Wind Power into the Grid
Publications:
- Assessment of Energy Storage for Transmission-Constrained Wind
- Comparative Assessment of Models and Methods To Calculate Grid Electricity Emissions
- Design Principles for Green Energy Storage Systems
- Emissions Impacts of Using Energy Storage for Power System Reserves
- Emissions reduction benefits of siting an offshore wind farm: A temporal and spatial analysis of Lake Michigan
- Emissions Reductions from Expanding State-Level Renewable Portfolio Standards
- Evaluation of Life Cycle Assessment Recycling Allocation Methods
- Expanding the Renewable Portfolio Standard for Michigan: A Study
- Impact of Inverter Loading Ratio on Solar Photovoltaic System Performance
- Improving Rural Electricity System Planning: An agent-based model for stakeholder engagement and decision making
- Twelve Principles for Green Energy Storage in Grid Applications
- Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries to Reach Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets in an Off-Grid Configuration