Mailing address
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
79 JFK St.
Cambridge, MA, 02138
William Hogan
Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy
Contact:
Telephone: (617) 495-1317
Fax: (617)-495-8963
Email: william_hogan@harvard.edu
Experience
William W. Hogan is Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy and Chair of the Appointments Committee. He is research director of the Harvard Electricity Policy Group (HEPG), which is examining alternative strategies for a more competitive electricity market. Hogan has been a member of the faculty of Stanford University where he founded the Energy Modeling Forum (EMF), and he is a past president of the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE). Current research focuses on major energy industry restructuring, network pricing and access issues, market design, and energy policy in nations worldwide. Hogan received his undergraduate degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy and his PhD from UCLA. Selected papers are available on his Web site, www.whogan.com.
May 2009
"Electricity Market Structure and Infrastructure"
Book Chapter
By William Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy
"Infrastructure investment is a common focus of energy policies proposed for the United States. Initiatives to improve energy security, meet growing demand, or address climate change and transform the structure of energy systems all anticipate major infrastructure investment. Long lead times and critical mass requirements for these investments present chicken-and-egg dilemmas. Without the necessary infrastructure investment, energy policy cannot take effect. And without sound policy, the right infrastructure will not appear. Acting in time to provide workable policies for infrastructure investment requires a framework for decisionmaking that identifies who decides and how choices should be made."
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Summer 2008
Hedging Against Uncertainty: US Strategy in an Interdependent World
Journal Article, National Strategy Forum Review
By William Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy
Energy is important, but energy independence is a dangerous myth. The U.S. National Petroleum Council recently observed: "There can be no U.S. energy security without global energy security." Oil flows in a world market and events anywhere affect the price of oil everywhere. There is no escaping these oil price shocks. Even if the United States were to substantially reduce its own oil consumption, there would be no immunity from the effects of high world oil prices that would determine domestic energy prices and ripple through the world economy. Geology and politics make the world deeply interdependent and policy should be crafted to promote and secure energy interdependence. Real energy security comes from robust energy systems with diversity and flexibility, not through isolation and energy autarky.
April 10, 2002
"Electricity Market Design and Structure: Working Paper on Standardized Transmission Service and Wholesale Electric Market Design"
Working Paper
By William Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy
A full text copy of this text is available at: http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.whogan.cbg.Ksg/.
December 18, 2001
"Capacity Constrained Supply Function Equilibrium Models of Electricity Markets: Stability, Non-decreasing Constraints, and Function Space Iterations"
Working Paper
By William Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy
"Electricity Market Restructuring: Reforms of Reforms"
Discussion Paper
By William Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy
Electricity systems present complicated challenges for public policy. In many respects these challenges are similar to those in other network industries in providing a balance between regulation and markets, public investment and private risk taking, coordination and competition. As with other such industries, naturally monopoly elements interact with potentially competitive services, but electricity has some unusual features that defy simple analogy to other network industries.
"Productivity Trends and the Cost of Reducing CO2 Emissions"
Discussion Paper
By William Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy and Dale Jorgenson, Director of Program on Technology and Economic Policy, Frederic Eaton Abbe Professor of Economics
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