Position:
Faculty Affiliate
College or Department name:
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Email:
jlmath@umich.edu
Website:
Degrees:
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2012
Research Interests:
My research focuses on ways to reduce the environmental impact, cost, and inefficiency of electric power systems via new operational and control strategies. I am particularly interested in developing new methods to actively engage distributed flexible resources such as energy storage, electric loads, and distributed renewable resources in power system operation. This is especially important in power systems with high penetrations of wind and solar. In my work, I use methods from a variety of fields including controls, optimization, and statistics. I am also interested in using engineering methods to inform energy policy and energy economics.
Projects:
- Environmental Impacts of Using Distributed Energy Storage for Power System Reserves
- 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
Publications:
- Emissions Impacts of Using Energy Storage for Power System Reserves
- Environmental Impacts of Using Distributed Energy Storage for Power System Reserves
- Explaining Inefficiencies in Buildings Providing Ancillary Services [ACEEE Proceedings]
- Explaining inefficiencies in commercial buildings providing power system ancillary services
- Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Using Lithium Ion Batteries for Power System Reserves and Strategies for Mitigation
- Policy and market barriers to energy storage providing multiple services
- Stochastic optimal power flow formulation to achieve emissions objectives with energy storage
- Use-Phase Drives Lithium-Ion Battery Life Cycle Environmental Impacts When Used for Frequency Regulation