ESD.162/15.032/6.695 Engineering, Economics and Regulation of the Electric Power Sector
Spring 2014
Instructors: Jose Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Christopher Roland Knittel, Carlos Batlle Lopez
TA: Tommy Chun Ting Leung
Lecture:
MW 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
(E51-376)
Recitation: F 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
(E51-149)
Information:
The course presents an in-depth interdisciplinary perspective of
the electric power sector, with regulation providing the link among
the engineering, economic, legal and environmental
viewpoints.
Electricity markets, incentive regulation of networks, reliability
of service, renewable energy sources, contemporary network issues,
retail competition, tariff design, distributed generation, rural
electrification, multinational electricity markets, environmental
impacts, future of utilities and strategic sustainability issues
will be addressed under both traditional and competitive regulatory
frameworks.
The course will make available the engineering, economic and legal
basis to critically evaluate the regulatory instruments that are
used worldwide for electricity supply activities that are performed
as regulated monopolies or under competitive conditions. Most of
these regulatory approaches are also of application in other
industrial sectors.
The knowledge acquired in the course will provide the comprehensive
understanding of electric power systems that will be needed for
research in this field, as well as for future professional
activities in the energy sector, whether in industry, government or
consulting.
Prerequisites: Permission by instructor (Open to undergraduates).
Preferably with background in policy analysis, microeconomics
and/or engineering/science.
Announcements
more winners, evaluations and farewell
Hi all,Please, remember to do the class evaluations going to:
http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/
This is also for listeners. It will take a few minutes and it is very useful for us. You only have until Monday May 19 at 9 am to do it.
The ex-aequo winners of the 5 minute presentations were Jenny Hu and Harrison Bromley. Not only clear and engaging presentations, but also two great term papers with much work and personal component in them. Congratulations to the winners and also to most of you, who have done a very good job and endured the "grilling session" quite successfully.
This is a last minute decision, before I board my plane to Madrid, and there is just one "reward" waiting in my office. I am sure Tommy will manage...
Finally, I hope you will have a well-deserved rest, have a great summer and perhaps we shall meet somewhere in some beach soon.
Cheers
Ignacio
Announced on 17 May 2014 11:59 a.m. by Jose Ignacio Perez-Arriaga
and the winners are...
Hi all,Congratulations again for good term papers and also now for excellent presentations.
Carlos, Tommy and I, after hours of debate, have agreed that the best presentations for the individual term papers are:
1st: Carlos de la Pena (he knows how good the Spanish wine can be)
2nd: Doug Ellman (he will be in Spain shortly and will be able to compare)
Congratulations to both and to all the contenders for excellent presentations.
On Friday we shall announce the winners of the 5 minute presentation context.
Cheers
Ignacio
Announced on 14 May 2014 7:55 p.m. by Jose Ignacio Perez-Arriaga
Presentations today starting 9 am
Hi all,The public presentations today, for the individual term paper topics, will start at 9 am (not 8 am, as previously scheduled), according to the following program:
9:00AM Scott Burger
9:30AM Danwei Zhang
10:00AM Summer Zhao
10:30AM Chris Babcock
11:00AM John Agan
11:30AM Doug Ellman
12:00PM Carlos de la Peña
12:30PM Lais Helena Camargo Costa
I encourage you to attend these presentations by your colleagues (and yours, obviously). There will be coffee and some donuts, no chocolate this time.
Presentations will take place in the conference room at MIT Energy Initiative Headquarters, E19, 3rd floor.
See you there.
Cheers
Ignacio
Announced on 14 May 2014 5:40 a.m. by Jose Ignacio Perez-Arriaga
Announcements
Just two short announcements as you head into the weekend. First, for those of you that went to the ISO-NE field trip, if you would like to continue the conversations that you had with Eric on demand response or Mark on resource adequacy, both have given me their contact information. Let me know, and I will put you in touch.
Second, we only have two responses thus far for class evaluations (and there are almost 40 of you in this class, including listeners)! Please help us out and let us know what's great and awful about our class:
http://web.mit.edu/subjectevaluation/
Thanks, and good luck with those final papers!
Tommy
Announced on 09 May 2014 11:09 a.m. by Tommy Chun Ting Leung
Recitation taday
Hi all,Today I shall cover the solutions to HW7 and HW8
Last recitation (and Friday)!
Cheers
Ignacio
Announced on 09 May 2014 8:32 a.m. by Jose Ignacio Perez-Arriaga
