Project Management & Research
James Dyer, Project Lead, Professor, McCombs School of Business
Valuation of energy investment decisions | Energy finance
Fred Beach, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
Energy Technology and Systems | Energy Policy
Carey King, Assistant Director, Energy Institute
Energy systems and integration | Energy economics and policy
Core Research Team
David Adelman, Professor, School of Law
Health impacts from air emissions | Regulatory and permitting costs
Ross Baldick, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
Electric grid market operation | Transmission and distribution | Wind integration
Robert Barron, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Next Generation Photovoltaics
Microgrids | Operations research
John C. Butler, Clinical Associate Professor, McCombs Business School
Energy Finance | Decision Analysis
Roger Duncan, Research Fellow, Energy Institute
Distributed Generation | New utility business models
Robert Fares, Postdoctoral Fellow, Energy Institute
Transmission and distribution
Gürcan Gülen, Senior Energy Economist, Center for Energy Economics
Energy Economics, policy, and planning | Electric grid market operation
Joe Hahn, Clinical Associate Professor, McCombs School of Business
Commodity price forecasting
Robert Hebner, Director, Center for Electromechanics
Transmission, Distribution, Metering, and microgrids | Stranded electric grid assets
Dale Klein, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
Energy Security | Nuclear power
Sheila Olmstead, Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs
Valuation of environmental externalities
Varun Rai, Director, Energy Institute
PV adoption and net metering policies
Josh Rhodes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Energy Institute
LCOE Research | Energy Modeling
Surya Santoso, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
PV integration, Distribution, and Storage | Intermittency
Erich Schneider, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
Nuclear power | Electric grid market operation
David Spence, Professor, McCombs Business/School of Law
Legal aspects of valuation of externalities and hedging | Electricity regulation and history
Melinda Taylor, Professor, School of Law
Arbitration | Energy and environmental law
Chen-Hao Tsai, Research Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
Electric grid market operation
Dave Tuttle, Postdoctoral Fellow, Energy Institute
Electricity history | New utility business models | Electric grid market operation
Michael Webber, Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
Electric grid market operation | Energy policy
Student Researchers
Juan Andrade, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Pedro Cuevas, Energy and Earth Resources, Jackson School of Geosciences & McCombs School of Business (graduated)
Thomas Deetjen, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yingzhang Dong, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Anamika Dubey, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Benjamin Griffiths, Energy and Earth Resources, Jackson School of Geosciences (graduated)
Christopher van der Hoeven, Department of Mechanical Engineering (graduated)
Suma Jothibasu, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Rachel Morneau, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Birdy Phathanapirom, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Jason Wible, LBJ School of Public Affairs (graduated)
Tiffany Wu, Energy and Earth Resources, Jackson School of Geosciences (graduated)
Tong Zhang, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (graduated)