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Michael A. Giberson, PhDCenter for Energy Commerce Office: BA 316 michael.giberson @ ttu.edu |
2012 Spring Classes |
| Dr. Michael Giberson is assistant professor of practice with the Center for Energy Commerce in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. Giberson teaches U.S. Energy Policy and Regulation, Energy Economics, and other energy-related courses. Formerly, he was an economist with Potomac Economics, Ltd., a leading provider of independent market monitoring and economic analysis to the electric power industry. Prior to working for Potomac, Michael Giberson worked for five years as an independent energy industry analyst and served one year as a research fellow with George Mason University's Critical Infrastructure Protection Project and the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science. He previously worked for the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets and Argonne National Lab. Michael Giberson has been published in Regulation magazine, the Electricity Journal, the Journal of Regulatory Economics, and the Pacific and Asian Journal of Energy, and has written on U.S. energy policies and federal electric power issues for trade publications. He received a BA in Economics from Texas Tech University, and an MA and PhD in Economics at George Mason University. He is co-author with Lynne Kiesling of the Knowledge Problem blog discussing economics, energy policy, technology and many other topics. Energy posts at Knowledge Problem are included at Social Media Today's The Energy Collective online community. In addition, his commentary and analysis has appeared at at Midas Oracle, Alternative Energy Stocks and MasterResource.
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Selected Publications
- "Magnifying calamity with man-caused disasters (Commentary)" The Washington Times, June 6, 2011, p. B1.
- "The problem with price gouging laws," Regulation, Spring 2011, 34(1), 48-53.
- “Blackout economics,” in Andrew Kleit, ed., Electric Choices: Deregulation and the Future of Electric Power. Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. With Lynne Kiesling.
- “L’électricité: est-elle un bien public?” (“Network reliability in electric power: Is it a public good?”) Revue de l'OFCE, 2007, Vol. 101, 399-420. With Evens Salies and Lynne Kiesling (in French).
- “Analyzing the Blackout Report Recommendations: Alternatives for a Flexible, Dynamic Grid.” Electricity Journal, July 2004, 17(6), 51-59. With Lynne Kiesling.
- Retail Energy Deregulation Index, 2000 (March 2000, Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets). With Ken Malloy.
- “Cost of service regulation: Lessons from the US experience.” Pacific and Asian Journal of Energy, December 1995, 5(2), 165-73. With RJ Sutherland.
- “Scale, Scope, and Regulation in the Texas Gas Transmission Industry.” Journal of Regulatory Economics, 1993, 5(1), 79-90. With Jerry Ellig.
- Citizens Guide to Energy and the Environment. February 1993. (Citizens for the Environment.)
Presentations
- “Electric Network Reliability as a Public Good,” Presentation at CMU Conference: Electricity Transmission in Deregulated Markets: Challenges, Opportunities, and Necessary R&D Agenda, December 15-16, 2004; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With Lynne Kiesling.
- “Uniform Pricing at Power Market Seams: Economic and Political Considerations,” Presentation at NSF Workshop on Seams, October 29, 2004; Arlington, Virginia.
Teaching
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