Bielicki publishes papers and receives DOE funding

Prof. Jeffrey M. Bielicki is a co-author on a paper that has been accepted by the journal Energy Economics.  The paper, "Why Rules Matter: Optimizing Pumped Hydroelectric Storage Under Different ISO Markets," with colleagues at the University of Minnesota, shows that the compensation schemes used by Independent System Operators in different parts of the country can result in different operational decisions by an operator of an energy storage facility.  One possible downside of these differences is that the installation of energy storage approaches--which are necessary to moderate the fluctuations of electricity produced by variable wind and solar energy technologies--may be more profitable in areas of the country where this energy storage is least needed.  Prof. Bielicki has a joint appointment with the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering and the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University.

Bielicki is also a co-author of "CO2 Deserts: Implications of Existing CO2 Supply Limitations for Carbon Management," which is now in press at the journal Environmental Science & Technology (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es5022685). The paper, with colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Virginia, and elsewhere, investigates the availability of carbon dioxide (CO2) throughout the United States and the limitations on the net emissions reductions that are achievable by approaches that seek to use CO2 or sequester it from the atmosphere.

Prof. Jeffrey M. Bielicki is part of a grant, led by colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory, that has been selected for funding by the U.S. Department of Energy.   Since the earth is opaque and difficult to directly characterize geothermal resources, this research seeks to develop methods to use disparate and spatially disaggregated data to identify the likelihood of a blind geothermal resource being present.