[Lwvcnmtopics] PRC meeting today

[George Richmond]

At today's meeting, four members of the Santa Fe Institute presented to 
the PRC on "Energy Transition in New Mexico"

In summary, the change from fossil fuel to renewables plus an improved 
grid and sales to other states, notably CA and AZ, in the future, will 
require a much different and more efficient production and distribution 
of electric power.  From other mattes at the PRC, I sense that the 
Avangrid purchase of PRC will make the process flow better.

Here is some background material on the lead presenter from the Santa Fe 
Institute:


sethblumsack

associateprofessor and hop farmer* <http://www.personal.psu.edu/sab51/#hops>
department of energy and mineral engineering
thepennsylvaniastate university

iam an associate professor in theleonefamily department of energy and 
mineral engineering 
<http://www.personal.psu.edu/sab51/www.eme.psu.edu>atpennstate 
university,chair of the energy business and finance program 
<http://www.eme.psu.edu/ebf>and the co-director of the energy and 
environmental economics and policy initiative atpennstate.iteach 
undergraduate courses and advise students in theenergy business and 
finance <http://www.eme.psu.edu/ebf/index.html>program. ialso teach 
public policy and economics courses tograduate students 
<http://www.personal.psu.edu/sab51/students.html>in science, engineering 
and other technical fields across the university.  I have strong 
interests in helping professionals andstudents 
<http://www.personal.psu.edu/sab51/students.html>address policy-relevant 
problems related to energy and environmental systems and technologies. 
youcan learn more about my interests and view some relevant publications 
on myresearch <http://www.personal.psu.edu/sab51/research.html>page. 
broadly, my teaching and research falls in these areas:

  * energyand electric power systems
  * networkand graph theory
  * regulatoryeconomics and policy
  * antitrustand competition policy
  * marketpower in electricity markets
  * transportationsystems and infrastructure
  * environmentalrisk and decision-making
  * integrateddesign for zero or low net-energy buildings and communities
  * unconventionalnatural gas


Mydissertation 
<http://www.personal.psu.edu/sab51/Blumsack_Dissertation.pdf>examined 
several implications of thebraessparadox 
<http://www.personal.psu.edu/sab51/MIT_poster.pdf>for network behavior 
and transmission investment, planning, and pricing in electric power 
systems. iearned myph.d.throughthedepartment of engineering and public 
policy <http://www.epp.cmu.edu/>atcarnegiemellon, and was associated 
with thecarnegiemellonelectricity industry center 
<www.cmu.edu:electricity>. mydissertation was supervised 
bylesterlave,marijailic, jay apt, andsaroshtalukdar.


The Santa Fe Institute was hired about one year ago to assist the PRC in 
its work.

Here is some background on the Santa Fe Institute, and more information 
can be found at its web site.


HOME <https://www.santafe.edu/>


  About

Operated as an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(3), the Santa Fe Institute 
is the world's leading research center for complex systems scie

Ourresearchers  <https://santafe.edu/people/type/researcher?groups__in=1&groups__in=2&groups__in=25&groups__in=3>endeavor to understand and unify the underlying, shared patterns in 
complex physical, biological, social, cultural, technological, and even 
possible astrobiological worlds. Our global research network of scholars 
spans borders, departments, and disciplines, unifying curious minds 
steeped in rigorous logical, mathematical, and computational reasoning. 
As we reveal the unseen mechanisms and processes that shape these 
evolving worlds, we seek to use this understanding to promote the 
well-being of humankind and of life on earth. One of the goals the PRC 
hopes to learn from the SFI is ways to reduce the costs of operation for 
electric utilities, as the current practice does not favor or reward 
cost control. The PRC is also working with PNM to learn how large is the 
customer owned Solar Power system now, and where it might be, as 
customer solar is a lost forever customer. George Richmond


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George M. Richmond
152 Juniper Hill Road, NE
Albuquerque, NM 87122-1913

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