1. 特邀学术报告 报告题目： Modeling Electricity Markets Using Complementarity: Why It’s Important (and Fun), & What’s Needed Next 报 告 人：报 告 人： Professor Benjamin F. Hobbs, The Johns Hopkins University, USA 报告时间： 2015 年 1 月 8 日， 星期四，上午 09:30 报告地点：清华大学西主楼 3 区 102 主办单位：清华大学电机系 联 系 人：联 系 人：陈启鑫

2. 报告内容： Electric power: done wrong, it drags the economy and environment down; done right, it could help to create a more efficient, brighter, and cleaner future. Better policy, planning, and operations models--both simple analytical, and complex computational ones--are essential if we're going to do it right. Better modeling is also fun, as the math of electricity models is inherently interesting and revealing --models often show flaws in our intuition. Used intelligently, models can point us towards better regulations, investments, and operating policies. I highlight some applications that have provided useful insights for policy making. A critical need is better transmission infrastructure planning under gross uncertainties including carbon policies, growth in demand and fuel prices, and location of renewable development. All models are wrong, but better models can help us avoid terrible investment and policy mistakes.

3. 报告人简介： Benjamin F. Hobbs earned a Ph.D. (Environmental Systems Engineering) in 1983 from Cornell University. He has been on the faculty of the JHU Department of Geography & Environmental Engineering since 1995, where he also holds a joint appointment in the Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics. His research and teaching concerns the application of systems analysis and economics to electric utility regulation, planning, and operations, as well as environmental and water resources systems. Dr. Hobbs has had visiting appointments at the Helsinki University of Technology, University of Washington, Netherlands Energy Research Center, and Cambridge University. He chairs the Market Surveillance Committee of the California Independent System Operator. Dr. Hobbs is a Fellow of the IEEE and INFORMS.