Housing policies and energy efficiency spillovers in low and moderate income communities

Federal housing block grants may be an untapped tool for energy-efficiency policy. EPIcenter affiliate Omar Asensio and his coauthors Churkina, Rafter and O’Hare (Georgia Tech, Harvard Business School and Georgia State University) link 5.9 million monthly utility bills with 16 years of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships projects in Albany, GA […]

Chance-constrained multi-stage stochastic energy system expansion planning with demand satisfaction flexibility

How can a country minimize long-term power-system costs when future electricity demand is uncertain? Yuang Chen (PhD ISyE Georgia Tech and now assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong at Shenzhen), Beste Basciftci (PhD ISyE Georgia Tech and now assistant professor at the University of Iowa) and Georgia Tech’s Valerie M. Thomas (an […]