January - March 2001 Issue

Publications

Reports and Working Papers

Arce, J., and M. Ilic. Managing Short-Term Reliability Related Risks. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 00-007WP. 13 pages. November 2000.* (To be presented at IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.)

Babiker, M., J. Reilly, M. Mayer, R. Eckaus, I. Sue Wing, and R. Hyman. The MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) Model: Revisions, Sensitivities, and Comparisons of Results. Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Report No. 71. 90 pages. February 2001.*

Black, J., and M. Ilic. Survey of Technologies and Cost Estimates for Residential Electricity Services. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 00-009WP. 14 pages. December 2000.* (To be presented at IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.)

Chalermkraivuth, K., and M. Ilic. Decision Criteria for the Deployment of Distributed Generation Technologies. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 01-006WP. 39 pages. January 2001.*

Fullerton, D., and G. Metcalf. Cap and Trade Policies in the Presence of Monopoly and Distortionary Taxation. Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Report No. 72. 21 pages. March 2001.*

Fumagalli, E., J. Black, M. Ilic, and I. Vogelsang. A Reliability Insurance Scheme for the Electricity Distribution Grid. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 01-001WP. 21 pages. January 2001.* (To be presented at IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.)

Gozum, O. Resource Allocation and Reliability for the Transmission Provider. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 01-008WP. 16 pages. January 2001.*

Gozum, O., and M. Ilic. Possible Decision Tools for Transmission Service and Pricing in the Evolving Electricity Market. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 01-011WP. 8 pages. March 2001.* (Accepted by the International Federation for Automatic Control Symposium on Modeling and Control of Economic Systems, Austria, September 6-8, 2001.)

Ilic, M., and Y. Yoon. Comments to the FERC Docket No. RTO1-01 regarding Formation of the RTOs. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 01-007WP. 17 pages. January 2001.*

Pindyck, R. Optimal Timing Problems in Environmental Economics. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Working Paper No. MIT-CEEPR 2000-009WP. 57 pages. March 2001.*

Raikar, S., and M. Ilic. Assessment of Transmission Congestion for Major Electricity Markets in the US. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 01-009WP. 9 pages. February 2001.* (To be presented at IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.)

Raikar, S., and M. Ilic. Interruptible Physical Transmission Contracts for Congestion Management. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 01-010WP. 16 pages. February 2001.* (To be presented at IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.)

Saxena, A., and M. Ilic. A Value Based Approach to Voltage/Reactive Power Control. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 00-004WP. 21 pages. May 2000.*

Skantze, P., A. Gubina, and M. Ilic. Bid-based Stochastic Model for Electricity Prices: The Impact of Fundamental Drivers on Market Dynamics. Energy Laboratory Report No. MIT-EL 00-004. 62 pages. November 2000.*

Skantze, P., and M. Ilic. The Joint Dynamics of Electricity Spot and Forward Markets: Implications of Formulating Dynamic Hedging Strategies. Energy Laboratory Report No. MIT-EL 00-005. 19 pages. November 2000.* (Accepted by the International Federation for Automatic Control Symposium on Modeling and Control of Economic Systems, Austria, September 6-8, 2001.)

Skantze, P., P. Visudhiphan, and M. Ilic. Valuation of Generation Assets with Unit Commitment Constraints under Uncertain Fuel Prices. Energy Laboratory Report No. MIT-EL 00-006. 15 pages. November 2000.*

Viguier, L., M. Babiker, and J. Reilly. Carbon Emissions and the Kyoto Commitment in the European Union. Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Report No. 70. 32 pages. February 2001.*

Visudhiphan, P., and M. Ilic. The Effect of Information on Electricity Prices: A Case of Inelastic Demand. Energy Laboratory Working Paper, forthcoming, 2001.

Watkins, G. Characteristics of North Sea Oil Reserve Appreciation. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Working Paper No. MIT-CEEPR 2000-008WP. 58 pages. December 2000.*

Webster, M., C. Forest, J. Reilly, A. Sokolov, P. Stone, H. Jacoby, and R. Prinn. Uncertainty Analysis of Global Climate Change Projections. Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change Report No. 73. 3 pages. March 2001.*

Yoon, Y. A Possible Mean-Variance Hedging Strategy in the Electricity Markets. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 00-002WP. 15 pages. May 2000.* (Proceedings, Euro Conference on Risk Management in Power System Planning and Operation in a Market Environment, Funchal, Portugal, September 25-27, 2000.)

Yoon, Y., J. Arce, K. Collison, and M. Ilic. Implementation of Cluster-Based Congestion Management Systems. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 00-001WP. 21 pages. May 2000.* (Also in Conference Proceedings, 4th International Conference on Power Systems Operation and Planning, July 31-August 3, 2000, Accra, Ghana, pp. 111-119, 2000.)

Yoon, Y., K. Collison, J. Arce, and M. Ilic. Congestion Management System Methods: Comparison on the 118 Bus System. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 00-005WP. 21 pages. July 2000.* (Forthcoming in Proceedings, 32nd Annual North America Power Symposium, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2000.)

Yoon, Y., K. Collison, J. Arce, and M. Ilic. Practical Implementation of Congestion Cluster Pricing Method. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 00-006WP. 30 pages. July 2000.*

Yoon, Y., and M. Ilic. Independent Transmission Company (ITC) for Profit and Markets for Transmission. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 01-002WP. 32 pages. January 2001.* (To be presented at IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.)

Yoon, Y., and M. Ilic. Price-Cap Regulation for Transmission: Objectives and Tariffs. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 01-003WP. 45 pages. January 2001.* (To be presented at IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.)

Yoon, Y., and M. Ilic. Secondary Market for Transmission and the Supporting Infrastructures. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 01-004WP. 45 pages. January 2001.* (To be presented at IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.)

Yoon, Y., and M. Ilic. Transmission Expansion in the New Environment. Energy Laboratory Report No. MIT-EL 00-002. 27 pages. May 2000.*

Yoon, Y., M. Ilic, and K. Collison. Efficient Implementation of Inter-regional Transactions. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 01-005WP. 36 pages. January 2001.* (To be presented at IEEE Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2001.)

Yoon, Y., S. Raikar, and M. Ilic. Congestion Management for Large Electric Power Systems. Energy Laboratory Working Paper No. MIT-EL 00-003WP. 25 pages. August 2000.* (Proceedings, 6th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, Funchal, Portugal, September 25-28, 2000.)

Other Publications

Arce, J. Transmission Reliability Assessment in a Competitive Electric Energy Industry. PhD thesis. Doctor en Ingenieria Electrica, Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina. February 2001.

Barta, L., L. Varga, and J. Beér. "Density stratified swirl flows; an improved turbulence model." Journal of the Institute of Energy, v. 73, pp. 191-195, December 2000.

Beér, J. "Combustion technology developments in power generation in response to environmental challenges." Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, v. 26, pp. 301-327, 2000.

Benevides, J., G. Senel, M. Flemings, J. Tester, and A. Sarofim. The Evaporation Rates and Mechanisms of Cadmium from a Bubble-Stirred Molten Copper Bath. Submitted to Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2000. 49 pages. $10.00

Cao, Z., J. Tester, and B. Trout. Computation of the Methane-Water Potential Energy Hypersurface via ab initio Methods. Submitted to Journal of Chemical Physics, January 2001. 47 pages. $10.00

Chalermkraivuth, C. Distributed Generation: The Strategies and Decision Criteria of Market Participants. SM thesis. MIT Technology and Policy Program. February 2001.

Collison, K. A Practical Approach to Optimal Pricing and Implementation of Inter-regional Transactions in Electricity Markets Under Restructuring. SM thesis. MIT Technology and Policy Program. June 2001.

DiNaro, J., J. Howard, W. Green, J. Tester, and J. Bozzelli. "Elementary reaction mechanism for benzene oxidation in supercritical water." Journal of Physical Chemistry A, v. 104, no. 45, pp. 10576-10586, 2000.

Forest, C., M. Allen, P. Stone, and A. Sokolov. "Constraining uncertainties in climate models using climate change detection techniques." Geophysical Research Letters, v. 27, no. 4, p. 569-572, February 15, 2000.

Gozum, O. Decision Tools for Transmission Service and Pricing: A Dynamic Programming Approach. SM thesis. MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. June 2001.

Green, W., et al. Computer-Construction of Detailed Models for Gas-Phase Reactors. Submitted to Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, December 2000. 18 pages. $10.00

Ilic, M., J. Arce, Y. Yoon, and E. Fumagalli. "Assessing reliability as the electric power industry restructures." The Electricity Journal, pp. 55-67, March 2001.

Ilic, M., P. Skantze, and P. Visudhiphan. "California troubles: Is Massachusetts next?" IEEE Spectrum Magazine, February 2001.

Ilic, M., and Y. Yoon. Tie-line Flow Control System and Method for Implementing Inter-regional Transactions. US Patent Application, Serial No. 09/688,294, October 13, 2000.

Jelinek, M., and M. Ilic. "A strategic framework for electric energy: technology and institutional factors and IT in a deregulated environment." Proceedings of the NSF/DOE/EPRI-sponsored Workshop on Research Needs in Complex Interactive Networks, Arlington, Virginia, December 2000.

Joskow, P., and J. Tirole. "Transmission rights and market power on electric power networks." RAND Journal of Economics, v. 31, no. 3, pp. 450-487, Autumn 2000.

Raikar, S. Interruptible Physical Transmission Contracts for Deregulated Electricity Market. SM thesis. MIT Technology and Policy Program. Forthcoming, June 2001.

Reiner, D. "Climate impasse: how The Hague negotiations failed." Environment, v. 43, no. 2, pp. 36-43, March 2001.

Richter, H., O. Mazyar, R. Sumathi, W. Green, J. Howard, and J. Bozzelli. "Detailed kinetic study of the growth of small polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. 1. 1-naphthyl + ethyne." Journal of Physical Chemistry A, v. 105, pp. 1561-1573, 2001.

Skantze, P. A Fundamental Approach to Valuation, Hedging and Speculation in Deregulated Electricity Markets. PhD thesis. MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Forthcoming, June 2001.

Socolofsky, S. Laboratory Experiments of Multi-phase Plumes in Stratification and Cross Flow. PhD thesis. MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. February 2001.

Sumathi, R., H.-H. Carstensen, and W. Green. Reaction Rate Prediction via Group Additivity. Part 1: H Abstraction from Alkanes by H and CH3. Submitted to Journal of Physical Chemistry A, January 2001. 41 pages. $10.00

Taylor, J., J. Steinfeld, and J. Tester. "Experimental measurement of the rate of methyl tert-butyl ether hydrolysis in sub- and supercritical water." Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, v. 40, no. 1, pp. 67-74, 2001.

Tsuchida, T. Design of an Information Entity--The InfoCo--for the Electric Power Industry Under Restructuring. SM thesis. MIT Technology and Policy Program and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. June 2001.

Visudhiphan, P., and M. Ilic. An Agent-based Approach to Modeling Electricity Spot Markets. Accepted by the International Federation for Automatic Control Symposium on Modeling and Control of Economic Systems, Austria, September 6-8, 2001.

Visudhiphan, P., and M. Ilic. "Dependence of generation market power on the demand/supply ratio: analysis and modeling." Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, Singapore, January 2000.

Visudhiphan, P., and M. Ilic. "Dynamic models for gaming." Proceedings of the IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter Meeting, New York, New York, February 1999.

Visudhiphan, P., M. Ilic, and P. Skantze. Dynamics of New Investments in Competitive Electricity Markets and Its Impact on System Reliability. Presented at Conference on Methods to Secure Peak Load Capacity on Deregulated Electricity Markets, Stockholm, Sweden, June 7-8, 2001.

Wagner, M. Hedging Optimization Algorithms for Deregulated Electricity Markets. SM thesis. MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. June 2001.

Yoon, Y. Electric Power Network Economics: Designing Principles for a For-Profit Independent Transmission Company and Underlying Architectures for Reliability. PhD thesis. MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. June 2001.

Zarur, A., N. Mehenti, A. Heibel, and J. Ying. "Phase behavior, structure and applications of reverse microemulsions stabilized by non-ionic surfactants." Langmuir, v. 16, no. 24, pp. 9186-9176, 2000.

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