ECON 621: ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY ECONOMICS
Summer 2025 · Section 002 · CRN 31939
Discusses the determinants of the cost of electricity, the effects of organizing the industry in different ways, the need to encourage sufficient investment in reserve capacity, and the use of information technology to allow for new ways of pricing electricity, operating the network and coordinating supply and demand. Students will learn to analyze the behavior of power markets, the effect of different policies, and draw empirical solutions to the real-world issues.
- Credits
- 4
- Instructors
- Martin Lin, Ozgur Inal