Michael Roberts
UHERO Research Fellow and Professor of Economics
Education
Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2000
M.A., Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, December, 2000
M.S., Applied Economics, Montana State University, 1994
B.A., Quantitative Economics and Decision Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 1992
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