Request for reading for a class

[Erin Baker]

Hi MES,

 

I will be teaching a class on climate and energy justice: multi objective decision analysis. I am looking for a reading for the students, a brief overview of the energy system; and of energy solutions to climate change. It could be two different readings, but I hope to keep the total length down. It is for undergraduate honors students.  A blog might be OK if it is supported by citations, or a paper or a chapter from a book.  One of the main things I am looking for is a discussion of how the different technologies work in the energy system, especially the power system. So, intermittency, dispatchability, energy versus power, types of cost, etc.

 

Any suggestions? Feel free to email me directly, and then I can put together all the suggestions and share with the list.

 

By the way, I just discovered this link on the MES web page: https://www.macroenergysystems.org/educational-tools

It has some nice tools, like games and simulators. Check it out!

 

Erin Baker

Distinguished Professor, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

Faculty Director, The Energy Transition Institute https://www.energytransitionumass.org/

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

@ErinBakerEnergy

TEDx talk: Energy Justice: Who gets listened to?

https://mie.umass.edu/faculty/erin-baker

Pronouns: She, her

 

[Erin Baker]

Hi All,

Thanks for responses! Below is the list of readings that were suggested. I was looking for something compact, a reading to go with a couple of lectures in an undergrad class. What I am going with is FERC’s Energy Primer:  https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/24_Energy-Markets-Primer_0117_DIGITAL_0.pdf  I will probably have them read a subset of the electricity markets chapter.

 

Most of the books below would be better as a basis for a course in power systems engineering, transmission planning, or market design.

 

• https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/energy/power.htm
• Power system economics by Steven Stoft
• "Electric Power Systems: A Conceptual Introduction" by Alexandra von Meier:
• "Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems" by Gil Masters, now in 3rd edition
• Infrastructure: A Field Guide To The Industrial Landscape by Brian Hayes
• By Marilyn Brown: Fact and Fiction in Global Energy Policy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), Green Savings: How Policies and Markets Drive Energy Efficiency (Praeger, 2015), and Climate Change and Global Energy Security (MIT Press, 2011)

 

A couple related to steelmaking

• Pistorius, P.C. (2022). Steelmaking Decarbonization Options with Current Technology.
• Miles et al. 2025 Simulating regional workforce impacts of decarbonizing integrated steelmaking. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419294122

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