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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 […]
EPIcenter Faculty Experts
Dylan Brewer
Assistant Professor,
School of Economics
Gaurav Doshi
Assistant Professor,
School of Economics
Dan Molzahn
Associate Professor,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Marilyn Brown
Regents’ Professor,
School of Public Policy
Santiago Carlos Grijalva
Professor,
School of of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Matthew Oliver
Associate Professor,
School of Economics
Micah Ziegler
Assistant Professor and John Woody Faculty Fellow,
School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Constance Crozier
Assistant Professor,
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Bobby Harris
Assistant Professor,
School of Economics
Casey Wichman
Associate Professor,
School of Economics
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