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Jay Apt

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Executive Director of Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center, Associate Research Professor, Distinguished Service Professor in Engineering and Public Policy

Email:
apt@cmu.edu

Education:
  • Harvard College - A.B. - 1971
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Ph.D. - 1976
Teaching and Research Interests:
  • Economics, engineering, and public policy aspects of the electricity industry. Economics of technical innovation. Management of technical enterprises. Risk management in policy and technical decision framing. Engineering systems design.
Published Papers: 
  • Near Term Implications of a Ban on New Coal-Fired Power Plants in the U.S.
    Environmental Science & Technology 43, 2009; 3995-4001.
    (With: A. Newcomer)

  • Air Emissions Due to Wind and Solar Power
    Environmental Science & Technology 43, 2009; 253-258.
    (With: G. Katzenstein)

  • The Geoengineering Option: A Last Resort Against Global Warming?
    Foreign Affairs 88, 2009; 64-76.
    (With: D. Victor, M Morgan, J. Steinbruner, K. Ricke)

  • A National Renewable Portfolio Standard? Not Practical
    Issues in Science & Technology 25, 2008; 53-59.
    (With: Lester Lave, S. Pattanariyankool)

  • Short Run Effects of a Price on Carbon Dioxide Emissions from U.S. Electric Generators
    Environmental Science & Technology 42, 2008; 3139-3144.
    (With: A. Newcomer, Seth Blumsack, Lester Lave, M Morgan)

  • Regulating the Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide
    Environmental Science & Technology 42, 2008; 2718-2722.
    (With: E. Wilson, M. Morgan, M. Bonner, C. Bunting, al et)

  • An Economic Welfare Analysis of Demand Response in the PJM Electricity Market
    Energy Policy 36, 2008; 3692-3702.
    (With: R. Walawalkar, Seth Blumsack, S. Fernands)

  • The Character of Power Output from Utility-Scale Photovoltaic Systems
    Progress in Photovoltaics 16, 2008; 241-247.
    (With: A. Curtright)

  • Implications of Generator Siting for CO2 Pipeline Infrastructure
    Energy Policy 36, 2008; 1776-1787.
    (With: A. Newcomer)

  • The Spectrum of Power from Wind Turbines
    Journal of Power Source 18, 2007; 52-61.

  • Deregulation/Restructing Part 1: Re-regulation Will Not Fix the Problems
    The Electricity Journal 20, 2007; 9-22.
    (With: Lester Lave, Seth Blumsack)

  • Deregulation/Restructuring Part II: Where Do We Go From Here?
    The Electricity Journal 20, 2007; 10-23.
    (With: Lester Lave, Seth Blumsack)

  • Should a Coal-Fired Power Plant be Retrofitted or Replaced?
    Environmental Science & Technology 41, 2007; 7980-7986.
    (With: D. PatiƱo-Echeverri, B. Morel, C. Chen)

  • Storing Syngas Lowers the Carbon Price for Profitable Coal Gasification
    Environmental Science & Technology 41, 2007; 7974-7979.
    (With: A. Newcomer)

  • Economics of Electric Energy Storage for Energy Arbitrage and Regulation in New York
    Energy Policy 35, 2007; 2558-2568.
    (With: R. Walawalkar, R. Mancini)

  • Promoting Low-Carbon Electricity Production
    Issues in Science & Technology 24, 2007.
    (With: D. Keith, M. Morris)

  • Planning for Natural Disasters in a Stochastic World
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 33, 2006; 117-130.
    (With: Lester Lave)

  • Electricity: Protecting Essential Services, in Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability
    Cambridge University Press: New York, 2006; 211-238.
    (With: M. Morgan, Lester Lave)

  • Planning for Natural Disasters in a Stochastic World
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, in press.
    (With: Lester Lave)

  • Lessons from the Failure of U.S. Electricity Restructuring
    The Electricity Journal 19, 2006; 15-32.
    (With: Seth Blumsack, Lester Lave)

  • A More Reliable U.S. Electric System
    Issues in Science & Technology 22, 2006; 51-58.
    (With: Lester Lave, M. Morgan)

  • Lessons from the Failure of U.S. Electricity Restructuring
    The Electricity Journal 19, 2006; 15-32.
    (With: Lester Lave, Seth Blumsack)

  • Cell Phones: Unsafe at Any Airspeed: Cell Phones and Other Electronics are More of a Risk Than You Think
    IEEE Spectrum 43, 2006; 44-49.
    (With: B. Strauss, M. Morgan, D. Stancil)

  • Increasing the Security and Reliability of the US Electricity System
    Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, 2005; 57-69.
    (With: Lester Lave, A. Farrell, M. Morgan)

  • A Cautionary Tale: U.S. Electricity Reform
    Economic and Political Weekly (Special Issue: Power Sector Reform-International Experience 40, 2005; 5279-5290.
    (With: Seth Blumsack, Lester Lave)
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  • Are Renewables Portfolio Standards Cost-Effective Emission Abatement Policy?
    Environmental Science & Technology 39, 2005; 8578-8583.
    (With: Katerina Dobesova, Lester Lave)
    For Further Information

  • The Spectrum of Power from Wind Turbines
    Journal of Power Sources 18, 2005; 52-61.

  • Restoring Soils to Protect Climate, Food, and Water
    Science 304, 2004; 393-393.
    (With: W. Griffin, Rattan Lal, Lester Lave, M. Morgan)

  • Rethinking Electricity Deregulation
    The Electric Journal 17, 2004; 11-26.
    (With: Seth Blumsack, Lester Lave)

Working Papers: 
Awards:
  • Fellow, The Explorers Club - 2008
  • Metcalf Lifetime Achievement Award for significant contributions to engineering - 2002
  • NASA Distinguished Service Medal - 1997
Consulting:
  • The Armstrong Group
  • Proctor & Gamble
  • The Gleason Group
  • Tissue Informatics
  • Pixel Vision
  • Microsoft
  • BEA Systems
  • American Cellular Wireless
  • Yakaki Engineering
  • Bechtel Bettis
  • Research Council of Norway
  • Tibeca Film Institute
  • TERC
  • Worldstat
Courses Taught:
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