Energy Systems and Grid Analytics

How electricity and energy systems change over time, and what those changes mean for costs, emissions and reliability. We model the Texas power grid and the wider energy system, from power plants and transmission to vehicles, buildings and industry.

These are the projects and publications we have done in this area. Each project links to its full page on erickjonesphd.com, and each publication links to the paper.

Projects

Publications

• Aghapour, R., Alavi, S., Chen, V.C.P., & Jones, E.C., Jr. (2026). What really drives our power system models? Identifying the assumptions that shape ERCOT power futures. Proceedings of the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2026.
• Aghapour, R., Alavi, S., Atitebi, O.S., & Jones, E.C., Jr. (2025). Texas power system evolution and sectoral energy demand: Contrasting sector-specific and multi-sector model outcomes. Proceedings of the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2025. Paper
• Jones, E.C., Jr., Munjurpet Sridharan, C., Aghapour, R., & Rodriguez, A. (2025). Re-energizing legacy fossil infrastructure: Evaluating geothermal power in tribal lands and HUBZones. Sustainability, 17(6), 2558. Paper
• Patil, H.V., Kumbhar, A.A., & Jones, E.C., Jr. (2025). Contributions of extended-range electric vehicles (EREVs) to electrified miles, emissions and transportation cost reduction. Energies, 18(24), 6448. Paper
• Alavi, S., Evans, T., Atitebi, O., Javaheri, A., Fand, Y., & Jones, E.C., Jr. (2024). Multi-source biofuel supply chain network optimization. Proceedings of the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2024, 1725–1730. Paper
• Jeffers, R., Kushner, D., Ntakou, E., Paaso, A., Chalamala, B., Jourdier, B., Rahmatian, F., Fotuhi-Firuzabad, M., Jones, E.C., Jr., Araneda Tapia, J.C., Abbas, A., & Price, T. (2024). Enabling climate adaptation and mitigation through grid modernization (TR-124). IEEE Power & Energy Society technical report. Paper
• Jones, E.C., Jr., Yaw, S., Bennett, J.A., Ogland-Hand, J.D., Strahan, C., & Middleton, R.S. (2022). Designing multi-phased CO₂ capture and storage infrastructure deployments. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, 2, 100023. Paper
• Jones, E.C., Jr. (2020). Decomposing systems: Illustrating the utility of distributed energy resources with decomposition techniques. Proceedings of the 2020 IISE Annual Conference. Paper