Category: Doshi

Curtailment 101: Understanding the Basic Economic Trade-Offs

Listen to the Curtailment 101 podcast: Created with Google NotebookLM, May 16th, 2025 EPIcenter affiliates Gaurav Doshi and Matthew Oliver’s article in The Energy Forum discusses the why grid operators occasionally curtail wind and solar output when transmission capacity is insufficient or demand is low, and the economic and environmental impacts of these decisions. Congestion-based curtailment […]

Meet the Expert: Gaurav Doshi

The assistant professor in applied economics researches, among other topics, ways to make the benefits of large electrification projects more transparent. It’s a chicken and egg situation: Should renewable energy projects launch first hoping that transmission lines to pipe generated power to distant places will follow on their heels? Or should the transmission lines be […]