Energy Sustainability Policy and Natural resources (ESPN)
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Yihsu Chen |
Contact
Office: Room 549B, Engineering 2
Lab: Room 579, Engineering 2
Tel: (831) 502-7184
Email: yihsuchen (at) ucsc.edu
Schedule
Office Hours: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Wednesdays
Please schedule an appointment by yihsuchen@ucsc.edu
Research Profiles
Recruit
Looking for self-motivated (Ph.D., MS. & undergraduate) students to work on energy-, transportation-, and water-related projects. Students can apply and enroll either in Electrical & Computer Engineering or Environmental Studies programs. If interested, please send me an email to yihsuchen (at) ucsc.edu. Within your email, tell me about (1) your academic background and work/research experience; (2) questions that you plan to address in your dissertation research; (3) your ultimate career goals.
News
6 /2024 Big congrats Fargol for passing her qualifying exam.
4 /2024 Professor Chen participated in the NSF Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability April 16, 2024 - April 17, 2024, Alexandria, VA.
3/2024 Our recent work is featured in The Conversation, Lake County News, and SFGATE! Please check it out.
12/2023 Professor Chen gave a talk at Tunghai University and National Taiwan University in Taiwan, and Tokyo University of Science in Japan.
11/2023 Our paper Regulatory jurisdiction and policy coordination: A bi-level modeling approach for performance-based environmental policy has been selected as one of the three papers competing for the Goodeve Award 2023, which is awarded annually for the best paper published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society in the previous year.
10 /2023 Fargol presented her work entitled Navigating the Bitcoin Boom: Assessing the Impact of Mining on Power at INFORMS Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ .
8/2023 Our paper Recovering Fixed Costs in the Presence of Prosumers has been accepted to publish in International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems.
7/2023 Professor Chen is awarded a grant to work on a new project Rapid decision support for optimal carbon-nutrient-water benefits from California’s methane policy with Professor Campbell funded by UCOP.
7/2023: Professor Chen will teach this year's COSMOS Cluster 6 with Professor Zhang!
7/2023: Our paper Optimal Retail Tariff Design with Prosumers: Pursuing Equity at the Expenses of Economic Efficiencies? has been accepted to publish in IEEE Transactions on Electricity Markets, Policy and Regulation.
5/2023: Our paper Price-Responsive Prosumers in Transmission-Constrained Power Markets: Pricing, Investment, and Social Welfare has been accepted to publish in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
5/2023: Our invited review paper Market-Based Environmental Policies in the Power Sector: State of the Art and Future Research Needs will appear in Current Sustainable Renewable Energy Reports.
4/2023: The newly proposed electricity retail rate is aligned with our recent work: (1) and (2).
4/2023: Our paper ‘‘Flexible Supply Meets Flexible Demand: Prosumer Impact on Strategic Hydro Operations’’ is accepted to publish in the Computational Management Science.
3/2023: Congrats Siyu for passing her pre-qualifying exam.
1/2023: Our paper ‘‘Endogenous Risk Management of Prosumers by Distributionally Robust Chance-Constrained Optimization’’ is accepted to publish in the IEEE Transactions on Electricity Markets, Policy and Regulation.
1 /2023: Professor Chen participated in the 56th HICSS conference: paper 1 and paper 2.
12/2022: Our paper ‘‘Risk-Averse and Strategic Prosumers: A Distributionally Robust Chance-Constrained MPEC Approach’’ has been accepted to publish in Energy Systems.
12/2022:Professor Chen gave a talk at the PPNL (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) organized Transactive Energy Theory Workshops: Optimal Retail Tariff Design in the Presence of Prosumers: Pursuing Equity at the Expenses of Economic Efficiencies?
12/2022: Our paper ‘‘Death Spiral, Transmission Charges, and Prosumers in the Electricity Market’’ has been accepted to publish in Applied Energy.
9/2022: The Salton Sea Long Term Planning Project report that Professor Chen and Siyu Luo participated in the summer just came out!
8/2022: water related news: New water cuts coming for Southwest as Colorado River falls into Tier 2 shortage.
7/2022: Professor Chen participated in the Salton Sea Project led by Professor Haddad from Environmental Studies.
5/2022: A big congratulate to Sepehr who just defended his thesis and becomes Dr. Ramyar!
4/2022: Professor Chen received the JSPS's Bridget short-term fellowship to visit Japan!
12 /2021: A new report on gas sector resilience funded by the California Energy Commission has been released: ‘‘Increasing the Resiliency of the Northern California Natural Gas System to Reduce Vulnerability to Climate Change’’.
9 /2021: Welcome Fargol Nematkhah join the ESPN lab.
8/2021: Our paper ‘‘Energy Expenditure Incidence in the Presence of Prosumers: Can a Fixed Charge Lead Us to the Promised Land?’’ has been accepted to publish in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
4/2021: Our paper ‘‘Average residential outage cost estimates for the lower 48 states in the US’’ has been accepted to publish in Energy Economics.
3/2021: Professor Chen gave a talk at UCSC's Environmental Studies on his new research entitled ‘‘Energy Expenditure Incidence in the Presence of Prosumers: Can an Income-based Fixed Charge Lead Us to the Promised Land?’’
2/2021: In case that you are interested in knowing what happened to the Texas rolling black-out: USEA Virtual Press Briefing: The Lessons of Texas
2/2021: Our paper ‘‘A Back-of-the -Envelope Estimate of the Average Non-Residential Outage Cost in the U.S.,’’ has been accepted by The Electricity Journal.
1/2021: The new book that I co-edit for the International Series in Operations Research & Management Science will be available in April 2021: Pursuing Sustainability: OR/MS Applications in Sustainable Design, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Resource Management
12/2020: My early work is selected as one of the ‘‘Top 20 papers for 20 years’’ published in Climate Policy: A seminal paper assessing cost pass-through in ETS. It was influential in decisions to go to higher shares of auctioning, with very large public finance implications.
Over its first two decades, the journal has published over 1,600 papers by nearly 2,500 authors from across 78 countries.11/2020: Our paper ‘‘Economic and Environmental Consequences of Market Power in the South-East Europe Regional Electricity Market,’’ has been accepted by The Energy Journal.
10/2020: Our paper ‘‘Regulatory Jurisdiction and Policy Coordination: a Bi-Level Modeling Approach for Performance-Based Environmental Policy,’’ has been accepted by the Journal of the Operations Research Society.
9/2020: Welcome Siyu Luo (P.h.D program from Environmental Studies Department) to join the ESPN group
9 /2020: Good luck to Sepher's new submission of the paper ‘‘Leader-Follower Equilibria in Presence of Strategic and Risk-Averse Prosumers: A Distributionally Robust Chance-Constrained MPEC Approach’’
4 /2020: Always enjoy reading writings by Max – interesting policy and counterfactual problems to think about: Will We Still Be Riding on the Same Bus Post Corona?.
4 /2020: Interesting article/news on the linkage between mortality and COVID-19: Air pollution linked with higher COVID-19 death rates.
3 /2020: My new book ‘‘Analysis of Environmental Policy in the Power Sector: Equilibrium Methods and Bi-Level Modeling" is now available.
3/2020: Big congrats to Duan for defending her thesis. Well done Dr. Zhang.
1/2020: Congrats on Sepehr Ramyar's paper, Leader-Follower Equilibria for Power Markets in Presence of Prosumers, being nominated for the Best Paper Award in the HICSS 53: Analytics and Decision Support for Green IS and Sustainability Applications
1/2020: Professor Chen will give a talk at HICSS 53 on “Leader-Follower Equilibria for Power Markets in Presence of Prosumers.”
11/2019: Some recent news “How UC Santa Cruz Engineers are proposing ways to improve electrical delivery”
10/2019: Both Duan Zhang and Sepehr Ramyar will present their work at INFORMS Annual Conference in Seattle
9/2019: Professor Chen is awarded a campus seed CITRIS grant “Sustainability Analytics Model of Biorefineries for Algae (SAMBA): A Sensor-Based Approach for Visualization and Decision-Making,” with Professors Kapuscinski (PI) and Campbell (Co-PI) from Environmental Studies
8/2019: Our paper “A power market model in presence of strategic prosumers,” has been accepted to publish in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. Congrats Sepehr!
8/2019: Our paper “Does a combined strategy outperform independent policies? Impact of incentive policies on renewable power generation,” has been accepted to publish in Omega.
8/2019: Our paper “Leader-Follower Equilibria for Power Markets in Presence of Prosumers” has been accepted to present at the HICSS 2020 : Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
8/2019: Our paper “Regional carbon policies in an interconnected power system: How expanded coverage could exacerbate emission leakage,” has been accepted to publish in Energy Policy.
8/2019: Professor Chen is awarded with a 4-year NSF project entitled “INFEWS:T2: Saltwater Greenhouse System for Agricultural Drainage Treatment and Food Production”
8/2019: Professor Chen participated in a workshop at University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan, presenting his work: “A Power Market Model in Presence of Strategic Prosumers.”
7/2019: Sepehr Ramyar participated in the International School for Materials for Energy and Sustainability VIII (ISMES VIII) at CalTech.
5/2019: Professor Chen will be one of the three instructors participating in the workshop “Equilibrium Methods for Analysis of Environmental Policy in the Power Sector” in IAEE's Montreal conference.
4/2019: Professor Chen participates in newly funded USAID's Center of Excellence for Water led by Prof Haddad from UCSC Environmental Studies.
4/2019: Sepehr Ramyar spent his free time contributing to ORMS Tomorrow on i) Bi-level programming with applications in engineering and economics and ii) Machine Learning Applications in the Energy Sector!
3/22/2019: Professor Chen will participate in IAEE 42nd International Conference Seminear in Montreal, Canada in May on Equilibrium Methods for Analysis of Environmental Policy in the Power Sector
2/16/2019: Participated in the Energy and Market Engineering Symposium in Honor of Professor Shmuel Oren
1/18/2019: Our paper “Carbon emission forensic in the energy sector: Is it worth the effort?” has been accepted to appear in Energy Policy.
1/1/2019: Beginning of new NSF project: CRISP 2.0 Type 1: Collaborative Research: Distributed Edge Computing to Improve Resilience of Interdependent Systems.
12/12/2018: Big congrats to Duan Zhang for passing her Ph.D. qualifying examination!
12/6/2018: Big congrats to Sepehr Ramyar for passing his Ph.D. qualifying examination!
12/3/2018: Our paper “Sustainable transmission planning in imperfectly competitive electricity industries: Balancing economic and environmental outcomes” has been accepted to appear in European Journal of Operations Research.