Matthias Fripp
UHERO Research Fellow and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Education
Ph.D. in Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley, 2008
M.S. in Energy and Resources, University of California, Berkeley, 2003
B.A. in Environmental Studies, Lewis & Clark College, 1999
Research Interests
Optimal design of power systems with large shares of intermittent renewable energy, storage and price-responsive demand.
Real-Time Pricing and the Cost of Clean Power
Solar and wind power are now cheaper than fossil fuels but are intermittent. The extra supply-side variability implies growing benefits of using real-time retail pricing
Are We Building Too Much Natural Gas Pipeline? A comparison of actual US expansion of pipeline to an optimized plan of the interstate network
Interstate natural gas transmission and storage infrastructure is facilitated using regulated, private transactions. Pipeline companies obtain long-term contracts from producers and wholesale purchasers, typically local
Using Temperature Sensitivity to Estimate Shiftable Electricity Demand Implications for power system investments and climate change
Growth of intermittent renewable energy and climate change make it increasingly difficult to manage electricity demand variability. Transmission and centralized storage technologies can help, but