Getting to Zero Carbon Emissions in the Electric Power Sector

Abstract

Jesse D. Jenkins is a postdoctoral Environmental Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard University Center for the Environment. His research harnesses methods from operations research, power systems engineering, and applied economics to improve regulation, policy, and practice in the rapidly evolving electricity sector. He earned a PhD in Engineering Systems (2018) and an SM in Technology & Policy (2014) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was also a researcher at the MIT Energy Initiative and a lead author of the Utility of the Future study. Max Luke is a consultant in the energy practice at NERA Economic Consulting where he specializes in economic, regulatory, and legal implications of emerging trends in the electric power sector. He has worked on projects related to network regulation, electricity tariff design, electricity market design, and the impact of emerging technologies on utility business models. He earned an SM in Technology & Policy (2016) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was also a researcher at the MIT Energy Initiative and a contributor to the Utility of the Future study. Samuel Thernstrom is Executive Director of the Energy Innovation Reform Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes the development of advanced energy technologies and practices that will improve the affordability, reliability, safety, and security of American energy supplies and our energy economy. He is also a senior fellow at the Center for the National Interest.