Based at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HEPG) was founded in 1993 in response to ongoing changes in the US electricity industry.

RECENT POSTINGS
HEPG maintains an extensive Research Library on electricity issues. The most recent postings are listed below.
Dates indicate when items were completed, presented or published, and not the posting dates.

Riousa, Vincent, Jean-Michel Glachant, Yannick Perez, Philippe Dessante. The diversity of design of TSOs.

Helm, Dieter. Renewables: Time for a Rethink?

Linares, Pedro, Francisco Javier Santos, Mariano Ventosa, Luis Lapiedra. Incorporating Oligopoly, CO2 Emissions Trading and Green Certificates Into a Power Generation Expansion Model. Automatica, Volume 44, No. 6, pp.1608-1620 (June, 2008).

White Paper: Understanding Debt Imputation Issues. Prepared by The Brattle Group for Edison Electric Institute. June 3, 2008.

Bradford, Peter. Nuclear Power: Are the $tar$ Aligned? Presentation to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group Fifty-first Plenary Session, Cambridge, MA, May 29, 2008.

Letter from Peter Bradford to Dr Irwin Stelzer, Energy and Environmental Policy Center, Harvard University, dated January 13, 1989.

Fertel, Marvin. Nuclear Power: Are the stars aligned? Presentation to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group Fifty-first Plenary Session, Cambridge, MA, May 29, 2008.

Fertel, Marvin. Status and Outlook for Nuclear Energy in the United States. Published by the Nuclear Energy Institute. Handout to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group Fifty-first Plenary Session, Cambridge, MA, May 29, 2008.

O'Neill, Thomas. The Challenge of Growth in Nuclear Power: It Ought to Work, But Will It? Presentation to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group Fifty-first Plenary Session, Cambridge, MA, May 29, 2008.

Bowring, Joseph. Market Power Tests Gross Positions and Net Positions Physical and Financial Dimensions. Presentation to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group Fifty-first Plenary Session, Cambridge, MA, May 29, 2008.

Caplan, Stuart. Market Power Monitoring and Mitigation in a World of Financial Transactions. Presentation to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group Fifty-first Plenary Session, Cambridge, MA, May 29, 2008.

Trask, Noel. Financial Transactions and Market Power: How FERC Should Implement Its New Market Power Tests to Reflect Sellers' Differing Position Management Strategies. Presentation to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group Fifty-first Plenary Session, Cambridge, MA, May 29, 2008.

Cortright, Richard. Debt By Any Other Name: Are Ratings Reality? Does the Accounting Make It So? Presentation to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group Fifty-first Plenary Session, Cambridge, MA, May 30, 2008.

Misquita, Edlyn. Accounting Considerations for Long-Term Power Purchase Agreements. Presentation to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group Fifty-first Plenary Session, Cambridge, MA, May 30, 2008.

Shelk, John. Electric Utility Resource Planning: The Role of Competitive Procurement and Debt Equivalency. Report prepared by GF Energy LLC for Electric Power Supply Association. Handout to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group Fifty-first Plenary Session, Cambridge, MA, May 30, 2008.

Mansur, Erin T. and Matthew W. White, Market Organization and Efficiency in Electricity Markets. Draft paper.

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, State of the Markets Report 2006
California ISO, Annual Report 2007
Midwest ISO, LMP Map and Table
ISO New Englad, LMP Map
ISO New England, Annual Markets Report 2006
New York ISO, Market Data - Zone Maps
New York ISO, State of the Markets Report 2006

28-29 February, 2008. HEPG Fiftieth Plenary Session

Session One: Federal Transmission Corridors The New Federal Role in Siting: Too Little? Too Much? Just Right? or Largely Irrelevant?
Session Two: Monopsony Manipulation: No Cost is Too High to Get Low Prices
Session Three: Risky Business: Does the Current State of Allocating Risk Allow for Optimal Ex Ante Investment Decisions in Generation and Transmission?
Rapporteur's Summary, 41 pages.

 

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