Position:
Core Staff
Assistant Professor
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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
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Creating a Plan to Convert Streetlights in Southeast Michigan to Energy Efficient LEDs by 2025
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Interdisciplinary Assessment of Utility Scale Solar Opportunities in the United States
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Public Transport Systems and Infrastructure Solutions to Reduce Fossil Fuel Dependence on Hawaii Island
- PISET: Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Providing Power System Reserves with Demand Response and Distributed Energy Storage
- 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
- Case Based Teaching for Interdisciplinary Environmental Sustainability Education
- Comparative Assessment of Models and Methods To Calculate Grid Electricity Emissions
- Design Principles for Green Energy Storage Systems
- Diversifying wind power in real power 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
- Environmental Benefits of Renewable Portfolio Standards in an Age of Coal Plant Retirements
- Evaluation of Life Cycle Assessment Recycling Allocation Methods
- Expanding the Renewable Portfolio Standard for Michigan: A Study
- Explaining Inefficiencies in Buildings Providing Ancillary Services [ACEEE Proceedings]
- Explaining inefficiencies in commercial buildings providing power system ancillary services
- Explaining inefficiencies in commercial buildings providing power system ancillary services
- 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
- Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Using Lithium Ion Batteries for Power System Reserves and Strategies for Mitigation
- Parameters driving environmental performance of energy storage systems across grid applications
- Policy and market barriers to energy storage providing multiple services
- Stochastic optimal power flow formulation to achieve emissions objectives with energy storage
- The environmental and cost implications of solar energy preferences in Renewable Portfolio Standards
- Twelve Principles for Green Energy Storage in Grid Applications
- Use-Phase Drives Lithium-Ion Battery Life Cycle Environmental Impacts When Used for Frequency Regulation
- Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries to Reach Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets in an Off-Grid Configuration