Harrison Fell
Publications
- Asymmetric Cost Pass-Through in Multi-Unit Procurement Auctions: An Experimental Approach , Journal of Industrial Economics (2021)
- Asymmetric Cost Pass-Through in Multi-Unit Procurement Auctions: An Experimental Approach* , JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS (2021)
- Emissions, Transmission, and the Environmental Value of Renewable Energy , AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY (2021)
- Information Searching in the Residential Solar PV Market , The Energy Journal (2020)
- Regional disparities in emissions reduction and net trade from renewables , NATURE SUSTAINABILITY (2020)
- Fuel prices, restructuring, and natural gas plant operations , Resource and Energy Economics (2018)
- Leakage in regional environmental policy: The case of the regional greenhouse gas initiative , Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2018)
- The fall of coal: Joint impacts of fuel prices and renewables on generation and emissions , American Economic Journal-Economic Policy (2018)
- Bribes, bureaucracies, and blackouts: towards understanding how corruption at the firm level impacts electricity reliability , Resource and Energy Economics (2017)
- Efficiency and environmental impacts of electricity restructuring on coal-fired power plants , Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2017)
Grants
This project will develop new methods to mitigate adverse human health impacts from power sector emissions through the targeted use of grid-connected energy storage. Energy storage devices, such as batteries or pumped storage hydropower, can shift both the time and location of power sector emissions based on their charging and discharging strategies. The overall human health impacts of criteria pollutants such as SO2 and NOx are closely related to the both temporal and spatial distribution of emissions. The overarching research question that will be answered is: Can operational strategies for grid-connected energy storage yield cost-effective reductions in the human health impacts associated with power sector emissions? To answer this question, the research team will develop a unit commitment and economic dispatch model with energy storage to determine optimal power system operations and provide unit-level SO2 and NOx emissions. A reduced-form air pollution transport model will provide spatially- and temporally-resolved PM2.5 and O3 concentrations stemming from power plant and energy storage dispatch decisions. Human health damage cost estimates will determine the health response from changes in exposure to these secondary pollutants, coupling those results with the value of a statistical life and determine the unit-level marginal health damage costs associated with the primary emissions. Those costs then serve as inputs into the power system model to allow real-time decision making, effectively internalizing the externality costs of the emissions and yielding the optimal charge/discharge behavior of the energy storage to cost-effectively reduce human health impacts.