 |
Bethany Corcoran
PhD Student Atmosphere/Energy Program Stanford University Email: bethanyc@stanford.edu Atmosphere / Energy Program Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy (Y2E2) Building 473 Via Ortega, Room 390A Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305, USA |
I am a PhD student in the Stanford University Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Atmosphere/Energy Program. My research aims to understand how to best organize the contiguous United States electric grid to maximize the amount of renewable energy. My first objective of this work is to determine the effects of aggregating electric load from various Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regions. My second objective is to find the least-cost portfolio of generators and the associated storage, transmission, and reserve requirements that meet the load and an RPS requirement for a fully interconnected US system and for each FERC region operating independently. These results will then be compared to determine the effects of aggregating electric load and renewable resouces from the FERC regions and give insight into the most economical organizational structure of the contiguous U.S. electric grid. My advisor is Mark Z. Jacobson. Outside of research, I am the leader for a wind energy project in Redwood City through the Stanford Solar and Wind Energy Project (SWEP) student organization. The goal of this project is to determine if winds near Redwood City would yield cost-effective large-scale wind energy generation. I received my BS from The Ohio State University in June 2007 in Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, with a minor in International Studies. During my undergraduate career, I worked extensively with biofuels and bio-based energy. In 2008, I completed my MS at Stanford University in the Atmosphere/Energy Program. |
Corcoran, B.A., N. Jenkins, & M.Z. Jacobson (2012). Effects of Aggregating Electric Load in the United States. Energy Policy, 46, 399-416. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.03.079.
|
2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
December 8, 2011 "US East Coast Offshore Wind Energy Resources and Their Relationship to Peak-Time Electricity Demand"
|
2009 Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher
Education (AASHE) Student Research on Campus Sustainability Award
Winner
|
2008 American Society of Agricultural and Biologcial Engineers
(ASABE) Annual Meeting (Providence, RI)
|