Ross Baldick
Book
Applied Optimization: Formulation and Algorithms for Engineering Systems, Cambridge University Press 2006. For a description of the features of the book, from a presentation at the INFORMS 2006 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November 5-8, 2006, see presentation. See the Cambridge University Press Catalog for ordering information, further details, and downloadable additional materials.Selected papers
Plug-in and hybrid vehicles
"The Evolution of Plug-in Electric Vehicle-Grid Interactions" David P. Tuttle and Ross Baldick, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 3(1):500-505, March 2012. This paper presents a survey of plug-in vehicle technology trends. http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/PEV-Grid.pdf.
Analysis of restructured electricity markets
"Wind Energy and Energy Markets: A Case Study of Texas," Ross Baldick, IEEE Systems Journal, 6(1):27-34, March 2012. This paper describes the interaction of increasing wind, transmission constraints, production tax credits, wind and demand correlation, and electricity market prices using the particular example of the ERCOT market. http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/Wind and energy markets IEEE systems journal.pdf Presented at the National Academy of Engineering Regional Meeting, College Station, Texas, April 29, 2009. Also presented at the University of Minnesota Internet-based seminar, June 8, 2009. http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/Wind and Electricity Markets.ppt (slides) http://www.unite.umn.edu/specials/Events/PowerGroup/20090608/index.html (streaming audio)
"Firm-based Measurements of Market Power in Transmission-Constrained Electricity Markets," Yen-Yu Lee, Ross Baldick, and Jin Hur, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 26(4):1962-1970, November 2011. This paper describes two approaches to analyzing firm-based market power considering transmission constraints. One is based on the transmission-constrained residual demand Jacobian and the other is a generalization to the transmission-constrained case of the residual supply index. http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/firm_index_technical.pdf (technical reference).
"Transmission-constrained Inverse Residual Demand Jacobian Matrix in Electricity Markets," Lin Xu, Ross Baldick, and Yohan Sutjandra, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 26(4):2311--2318, November 2011. This paper describes the calculation of the Jacobian of the inverse residual demand faced by a market participant owning multiple generators when transmission constraints are binding. http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/Jacobian.pdf.
"New Indices of Market Power in Transmission-Constrained Electricity Markets" Yen-Yu Lee, Jin Hur, Ross Baldick, and Salvador Pineda, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 26(2):681-689, May 2011. This paper describes indices of transmission-constrained market power that are based on economic principles together with faithful representation of the effects of Kirchhoff's laws. http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/index_IEEE.pdf.
"Transmission-constrained Residual Demand Derivative in Electricity Markets," Lin Xu and Ross Baldick, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 22(4):1563-1573, November 2007. This paper describes the calculation of the residual demand faced by a market participant when transmission constraints are binding. http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/residual.pdf. Application of this methodology to optimizing offers into electricity markets is detailed in "Bidding into Electricity Markets: A Transmission-Constrained Residual Demand Derivative Approach," Lin Xu, Ross Baldick, and Yohan Sutjandra, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/residual2_IEEE.pdf
"Border flow rights and Contracts for differences of differences: Models for electric transmission property rights," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 22(1):232-239, February 2007, and "Border flow rights and Contracts for differences of differences Technical reference," Ross Baldick. This paper proposes a property right for electric transmission and an associated financial right. http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/CFDD_technical.pdf
"Computing the Electricity Market Equilibrium: Uses of market equilibrium models," Ross Baldick. This panel session paper discusses the formulation and uses of electricity market equilibrium models. It was presented at the 2006 Power Systems Conference and Exposition, Altanta, GA, October 29-November 1, 2006. http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/computing market equilibrium.pdf (paper version) http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/slides computing market equilibrium.pdf (presentation version)
"Stability of supply function equilibria: Implications for daily versus hourly bids in a poolco market," Ross Baldick and William Hogan, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 30(2):119-139, August 2006. This paper summarizes key results from "Capacity Constrained Supply Function Equilibrium Models of Electricity Markets" and was presented at the Seventh Annual POWER Research Conference, University of California Energy Institute, Berkeley, CA, March 2002. http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/stabilitypap.pdf (paper version) http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/stability.pdf (presentation version)
"Interruptible Electricity Contracts from an Electricity Retailer’s Point of View: Valuation and Optimal Interruption," Operations Research, 54(4):627-642, July-August 2006. This paper discusses the valuation of contracts between a retailer of electricity and large consumers that allow for interruption of the power to the consumer.
"Dispatchable Transmission in RTO Markets," Richard P. O'Neill, Ross Baldick, Udi Helman, Michael H. Rothkopf, and William Stewart, Jr., IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 20(1):171-179, February 2005, http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/dispatchable.pdf
"Lessons Learned: The Texas Experience," Ross Baldick and Hui Niu, to appear in Electricity Deregulation: Where to from here? James Griffin and Steven Puller, Editors, © 2005 by The University of Chicago Press. All rights reserved. http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/lessons.pdf
"Theory and Application of Linear Supply Function Equilibrium in Electricity Markets," Ross Baldick, Ryan Grant, and Edward Kahn, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 25(2):143-167, March 2004, http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/linearsfe.pdf
"Solving three-player games by the matrix approach with application to an electric power market," Kwang-Ho Lee and Ross Baldick, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,18(4):1573–1580, November 2003, http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/threeplayer.pdf
"Contingent Transmission Rights in the Standard Market Design," Richard O’Neill, Udi Helman, Ross Baldick, William Stewart, Michael Rothkopf, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 18(4):1331–1337, November 2003, http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/contingent.pdf
"Tuning of Discretization in Bimatrix Game Approach to Power System Market Analysis," Kwang-Ho Lee and Ross Baldick, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 18(2):830–836, May 2003, http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/tuning.pdf
"Shift factors in ERCOT congestion pricing," Ross Baldick, March 2003, http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/shiftfactors.pdf
"Electricity market equilibrium models: The effect of parametrization," Ross Baldick, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 17(4):1170-1176, November 2002, http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/parametrization.pdf
"An Empirical Study of Applied Game Theory: Transmission Constrained Cournot Behavior," Lance B. Cunningham, Ross Baldick, and Martin L. Baughman, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 17(1):166-172, February 2002. http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/transmissionconstrainedcournot.pdf
"Capacity Constrained Supply Function Equilibrium Models of Electricity Markets: Stability, Non-decreasing constraints, and Function Space Iterations," Ross Baldick and William Hogan, (December 2001) University of California Energy Institute Working paper PWP-089. http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/ucei/PDF/pwp089.pdf
"A Model and
Simulation of Competitive Electric Power Systems
"Linear Supply Function Equilibrium: Generalizations, Application, and Limitations," Ross Baldick, Ryan Grant, and Edward Kahn, (August 2000) University of California Energy Institute Working paper PWP-078. http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/ucei/PDF/pwp078.pdf
Electricity system analysis, operations, and planning
"Estimates of comparative costs for uprating transmission capacity," IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, 24(2):961–969, April 2009. http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/uprating.pdf
"Analysis of Electric Grid Security Under Terrorist Threat," Javier Salmeron, Kevin Wood, and Ross Baldick, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems,19(2):905-912, May 2004. http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/gridsecurity.pdf
"An empirical study of the economies of scale in AC transmission line construction costs," Krishnan Dixit and Ross Baldick, Unpublished manuscript, December 2003. http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/economies of scale.pdf
"Variation of Distribution Factors with Loading," Ross Baldick, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 18(4):1316–1323, November 2003. http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/variation.pdf
"Grid limitations," Ross Baldick, presented to the President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, Austin, TX, August 15, 2002. http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/PCAST.pdf
"Unit commitment with probabilistic reserve," Debabrata Chattopadhyay and Ross Baldick, Proceedings of IEEE Power Engineering Society Winter 2002 Meeting. http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/ucwithprobres.pdf
"State Estimation Condition Number Analysis," Reza Ebrahimian and Ross Baldick, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 16(2):273-279, May 2001. http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/conditionnumber.pdf
"State Estimation Distributed Processing," Reza Ebrahimian and Ross Baldick, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 15(4):1240-1246, November 2000. http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/stateestimation.pdf
"Coarse-grained Distributed Optimal Power Flow," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 12(2):932-939, May 1997 http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/theorydistrib.pdf and "A Fast Distributed Implementation of Optimal Power Flow," IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 14(3):858-864, August 1999 http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/fastdistrib.pdf These two papers describe a distributed implementation of the Optimal Power Flow problem based on the "auxiliary problem principle" of Guy Cohen. See ftp://sistelet.ing.unicas.it/DistOpt to obtain a general distributed optimization package called DistOpt that implements the auxiliary problem principle.
VLSI circuit analysis
"Nonlinear Driver Models for Timing and Noise Analysis," Bogdan Tutuianu and Ross Baldick, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 23(11):1510-1521, November 2004, http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~baldick/papers/DriverModel.pdf