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2026
Governance of Multi-State Electricity Markets for the 21st Century
Abraham Silverman
2025
Rethinking Load Growth: Assessing the Potential of Large Flexible Loads in US Power Systems
Tyler H. Norris, Tim Profeta, Dalia Patiño-Echeverri, and Adam Cowie-Haskell
Institutional learning in the energy transition: The case of offshore wind in the United States
Tyler A. Hansen, Stephanie Lenhart, Aidan T. Muller, and Elizabeth Wilson
Outsourcing Electricity Market Design
Joshua C. Macey
Towards a National Transmission Planning Authority
Joshua Macey & Elias van Emmerick
Remaking the Western Grid
Lincoln L. Davies, Stephanie Lenhart, and Anne E. Ralph
2024
Planning for Growing Electricity Demand During an Era of Uncertain Renewables and Climate Policy
Martin Ross, Jackson Ewing, Brian Murray, Tim Profeta, Robert Stout, and Michael Yoo
The Law and Economics of Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation
Joshua Macey & Jacob Mays
California, an Island?
Lincoln L. Davies & Stephanie Lenhart
The Key to Electric Grid Reliability: Modernizing Governance
Alexandra Klass, Joshua Macey, Shelley Welton, and Hannah Wiseman
Grid Reliability in the Electric Era
Joshua C. Macey, Shelley Welton, and Hannah Wiseman
Grid reliability’s core challenge is governance, not a changing resource mix
Alexandra Klass, Josh Macey, Shelley Welton, and Hannah Wiseman
2023
Grid Governance in the Energy-Trilemma Era: Remedying the Democracy Deficit
Daniel E. Walters & Andrew N. Kleit
The Evolution of Participatory Policy-Making for Regional Power Grids
Nicholas Johnson, Stephanie Lenhart, and Seth Blumsack
Incorporating Environmental Concerns Into Wholesale Electric Markets (Part I)
Mark James, Kevin B. Jones, and Adelaide Hardwick
Incorporating Environmental Concerns Into Wholesale Electric Markets (Part II)
Mark James, Kevin B. Jones, and Adelaide Hardwick
Coalition Stability in PJM: Exploring the Consequences of State Defection From the Wholesale Market
Travis Dauwalter, Ali Daraeepour, Bryan Higgins, Seth Blumsack, Brian Murray, and Dalia Patiño-Echeverri
Western Emergency Electricity Markets: State-Level Regulatory Analysis
Stephanie Lenhart & Lincoln Davies
Measuring Stakeholder Voting Coalition Stability in Regional Transmission Organizations
Seth Blumsack & Nicholas Johnson
2022
Grid Reliability through Clean Energy
Alexandra B. Klass, Joshua Macey, Shelley Welton, and Hannah Jacobs Wiseman
2021
Studies in the Governance of Regional Transmission Organizations
Nicholas H. Johnson
Rethinking Grid Governance for the Climate Change Era
Shelley Welton
2020
RTO Governance Structures Can Affect Capacity Market Outcomes
Kyungjin Yoo & Seth Blumsack
2019
Chen House Testimony June 2019
Jennifer Chen
2018
Can capacity markets be designed by democracy?
Kyungjin Yoo & Seth Blumsack
The political complexity of regional electricity policy formation
Kyungjin Yoo & Seth Blumsack
2017
How the RTO Stakeholder Process Affects Market Efficiency
Mark James, Kevin B. Jones, Ashleigh H. Krick and Rikaela R. Greane