Electricity Markets and Policy > Staff > Chris Marnay

Chris Marnay leads the Technology Evaluation, Modeling, and Assessment group within the Environmental Energy Technologies Division. He models restructured electricity markets, especially related to problems concerning likely future adoption patterns of small-scale distributed energy resources (DER). He was a member of the Consortium of Electric Reliability Solutions (CERTS) that proposed the CERTS Microgrid concept, and his group has since developed methods for the economic evaluation of microgrids. Work has led to development of the DER Customer Adoption Model that finds optimum technology neutral combinations of equipment and operating schedules, given prevailing economic circumstances and available equipment descriptions. His other responsibilities primarily involve maintaining and enhancing the latest version of the Energy Information Administration's National Energy Modeling System (NEMS), which is used for most national level energy policy analysis. Other work in progress includes the development of a national scale uncertainty based national building energy demand and supply module for the planned Stochastic Energy Deployment System. He chairs the annual Microgrids Symposiums, which have been held in the U.S., Canada, Japan, and Greece. He has an A.B. in Development Studies, an M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics, and a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources, all from the University of California, Berkeley. He has also studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Hawaii, has worked at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2006 he was a visiting professor at The University of Kitakyushu under a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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