Energy
Selected Recent Publications
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We developed detailed technical descriptions of two SMR designs and then conduced elicitation interviews in which we obtained probabilistic judgments from 16 experts who are involved in, or have access to, engineering-economic assessments of SMR projects.
Rebound effects are likely to depend on the specific attributes of the policies that trigger the efficiency improvement, but such factors are often ignored. Implications for welfare changes resulting from rebound have also been largely ignored in the literature until recently.
White light emitting diodes offer efficient use of electrical energy and lower lighting / costs as well as reduced atmospheric pollution.
For Pittsburgh, a researcher could apply the same factor analysis procedure to compare heat vulnerability data sets for different locations and times.
We built on the health communication and graph comprehension literature to inform electricity bill design, with the goal of improving understanding, preferences for the presented communication, and intentions to save electricity.
We describe the effect of a deliberative democracy forum to identify energy policy priorities.
We assess the technical and economic feasibility of DC circuits using data for 120 traditionally-wired AC homes in Austin, Texas to understand the effect of highly variable demand profiles on DC-powered residences.
This paper illustrates the impact of providing tailored energy information to building occupants and their peers to strengthen community energy reduction efforts.
We suggest that the “power usage and effectiveness” metric is incomplete, failing to address hardware efficiency, energy productivity, and environmental performance.
This review suggests several guidelines for improving research quality in the area of information and communication technology.
An elicitation of public concerns reveals how engagement with interested and affected parties can elucidate key issues for risk governance in shale gas issues.
We present an approach to in-home display design that uses research on customer preferences to determine which features to experimentally examine for customer comprehension.
On the heels of a U.S. presidential commitment to a new approach to energy production and transmission, we use methods from behavioral decision research to understand consumer beliefs about smart meters, including in-depth mental models interviews and a follow-up survey with a sample of potential smart meter customers of a major U.S. mid-Atlantic electricity utility.
We present a conceptual model to estimate the economics of accessing high quality wind resources in remote areas to comply with renewable energy policy targets, and apply the model to the Midwestern grid (MISO) as a case study.
Using data from the Clean Mechanism Development project database between 2004 and 2012, this study shows that while China made progress in bringing down the levelized cost of wind electricity and cost of carbon mitigation, costs are still higher than expected.
This paper presents the first systematic calculation of MEFs for the U.S. electricity system.
This is the first part of a two-part paper providing an analytical model of the indirect rebound effect, given a direct rebound estimate, that integrates consumer demand theory with the embodied energy of household spending from environmentally-extended input-output analysis.
We discuss how to apply behavior and decision research to climate issues.