“Clean Power Delayed: Effects of Infrastructure Delays on Health, Environment, and US Households.” Daniel Shawhan, McKenna Peplinski, Sally Robson, Ethan Russell, Karen Palmer, and Maya Domeshek. Resources for the Future working paper 25-15. May 2025. https://www.rff.org/publications/working-papers/clean-power-delayed-effects-of-infrastructure-delays-on-health-environment-and-us-households/.

“Power Delayed: Economic Effects of Electricity Transmission and Generation Development Delays.” Daniel Shawhan, McKenna Peplinski, Sally Robson, Ethan Russell, and Karen Palmer. Resources for the Future working paper 25-14. May 2025. https://www.rff.org/publications/working-papers/power-delayed-economic-effects-of-electricity-transmission-and-generation-development-delays/.

“Offshore Wind Power Examined: Effects, Benefits, and Costs of Offshore Wind Farms Along the US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.” Daniel Shawhan, Sally Robson, and Ethan Russell. Resources for the Future working paper 24-17. October 2024. https://www.rff.org/publications/working-papers/offshore-wind-power-examined-effects-benefits-and-costs-of-offshore-wind-farms-along-the-us-atlantic-and-gulf-coasts/. Covered by RTO Insider and NOTUS. Associated webinar had 245 attendees.

“Policies for Reducing the Impacts of Power Sector Air Pollution on Disadvantaged Americans.” Daniel Shawhan, Sally Robson, Ethan Russell, and Ana Varela Varela. Resources for the Future working paper 24-15. September 2024.https://media.rff.org/documents/Working_Paper_24-15_bRCsc3I.pdf. Covered by Inside EPA twice.

Prioritizing Justice in New York State Cap-Trade-and-Invest. Alan Krupnick, Molly Robertson, Wesley Look, Eddie Bautista, Eunice Ko, Victoria Sanders, Daniel Shawhan, Joshua Linn, Miguel Jaller, Narasimha Rao, Miguel Poblete Cazenave, and Yang Zhang. RFF/NYC-EJA report. RFF report 24-05. March 2024. https://media.rff.org/documents/Report_24-05_v3.pdf.

Prioritizing Justice in New York State Climate Policy: Cleaner Air for Disadvantaged Communities? Alan Krupnick, Molly Robertson, Wesley Look, Eddie Bautista, Victoria Sanders, Eunice Ko, Daniel Shawhan, Joshua Linn, Miguel Jaller, Narasimha Rao, Miguel Poblete Cazenave, Yang Zhang, Kai Chen, and Pin Wang. RFF/NYC-EJA report. Sept. 13, 2023. https://www.rff.org/publications/reports/environmental-justice-communities-new-york-state-climate-policy-clcpa/. 

What Are the Climate, Air Pollution, and Health Benefits of Electric Vehicles? Christoph Funke, Joshua Linn, Sally Robson, Ethan Russell, Daniel Shawhan, and Steven Witkin. Resources for the Future working paper 23-01. January 2023. https://www.rff.org/news/press-releases/environmental-benefits-of-plug-in-vehicles-depend-on-public-policy-and-market-forces/. Covered by California Energy Markets.

“Pathways Toward Grid Decarbonization: Impacts and Opportunities for Energy Customers from Several US Decarbonization Approaches.” Daniel Shawhan, Christoph Funke, and Steven Witkin. Resources for the Future and Clean Energy Buyers Institute report. September 2022. https://www.rff.org/publications/reports/pathways-toward-grid-decarbonization-impacts-and-opportunities-for-energy-customers-from-several-us-decarbonization-approaches/. Covered by outlets including The Congressional Record, Inside EPA, Business Wire, Yahoo Finance, NRDC News & Commentary, and Renewable Energy Buyer. Also prompted interviews for POLITICO/E&E News and Bloomberg.

 “The Value of Advanced Energy Funding: Analysis for Active Legislative Discussion.” Daniel Shawhan, Kathryne Cleary, Christoph Funke, and Steven Witkin. Aug. 13, 2021. https://www.rff.org/publications/issue-briefs/the-value-of-advanced-energy-funding-analysis-for-active-legislative-discussion/. Covered by AK Headlamp and Clearpath.

 “Advanced Clean Energy Infrastructure: Effects of the Draft Energy Infrastructure Act.” Daniel Shawhan and Kathryne Cleary. July 14, 2021. https://www.rff.org/publications/issue-briefs/advanced-clean-energy-infrastructure-effects-of-the-draft-energy-infrastructure-act/. Covered by E&E News.

“The Value of Advanced Energy Funding: Projected Effects of Proposed US Funding for Advanced Energy Technologies.” Daniel Shawhan, Kathryne Cleary, Christoph Funke, and Steven Witkin. Resources for the Future issue brief 21-03. April 28, 2021. https://www.rff.org/publications/issue-briefs/projected-effects-of-proposed-funding-for-advanced-energy-technologies/. Tweet summary retweeted more than 20 times and viewed by more than 20,000 people. Highlighted in Bending Arc.

“The Value of Advanced Energy Funding: Projected Effects of Proposed US Funding for Advanced Energy Technologies.” Daniel Shawhan, Kathryne Cleary, Christoph Funke, and Steven Witkin. Resources for the Future working paper 21-10. April 2021. https://www.rff.org/publications/working-papers/projected-effects-proposed-us-funding-advanced-energy-technologies/. Covered by outlets including POLITICO, POLITICO Morning Energy twice, The Washington Examiner, The Hill, Resources Radio, and SMU Geothermal Lab newsletter.

“Benefits of Energy Technology Innovation Part 1: Power Sector Modeling Results.” Daniel Shawhan, Christoph Funke, and Steven Witkin. Resources for the Future working paper 20-19. Dec. 14, 2020. https://www.rff.org/publications/working-papers/benefits-energy-technology-innovation-power-sector/.

“Two Key Design Parameters in Clean Electricity Standards: An illustrative, simulation-based comparison of proposed carbon intensity benchmarks and target escalation methods.” Paul Picciano, Kevin Rennert, and Daniel Shawhan. Resources for the Future Issue Brief 20-02, February 2020.  https://www.rff.org/publications/issue-briefs/key-design-parameters-clean-electricity-standards/. Covered by E&E News, InsideClimate News, and US Department of Treasury.

“Strength in Numbers” (2019 Annual Report). United States Climate Alliance. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a4cfbfe18b27d4da21c9361/t/5df78938e7c320168ad2e19a/1576503687285/USCA_2019+Annual+Report_final.pdf. The US Climate Alliance is an association of the governors’ offices of the states that aim to individually achieve the percentage emission reduction committed to by the US government in the Paris climate agreement. Daniel Shawhan, Paul Picciano, and Wes Look produced the state power sector emission projections for the annual report and also produced detailed state-by-state results for the state governors’ offices.

“Projected Effects of the Clean Energy Standard Act of 2019.” Paul Picciano, Kevin Rennert, and Daniel Shawhan. Resources for the Future Issue Brief 19-03, May 2019.  https://www.rff.org/publications/issue-briefs/projected-effects-clean-energy-standard-act-2019/. Covered by Bloomberg Environment, Axios, Axios Generate, and The Equation. Summarized in testimony to Energy Subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

“Benefits and Costs of Power Plant Carbon Emissions Pricing in New York.” Shawhan, Daniel, Paul Picciano, and Karen Palmer. Resources for the Future report, July 18, 2019.  https://www.rff.org/publications/reports/benefits-and-costs-of-the-new-york-independent-system-operators-carbon-pricing-initiative/. Reported in S&P Global/Platts, RTOInsider twice, E&E News,InsideEPA/Climate, Carbon Pulse, Argus, and POLITICO New York twice. Also prompted interview used in Bloomberg article. Tweets about this study got more than 15,000 views.

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“Retirements and Funerals: The Emission, Mortality, and Coal-Mine Employment Effects of a Two-Year Delay in Coal and Nuclear Power Plant Retirements.”  Shawhan, Daniel, and Paul Picciano. Resources for the Future working paper 18-18, July 5, 2018.http://www.rff.org/research/publications/retirements-and-funerals-emission-mortality-and-coal-mine-employment-effects. Covered in Bloomberg, The Houston Chronicle, The Columbus Dispatch, Axios, POLITICO Morning Energy, Barron’s, The Washington Examiner, The Hill, Utility Dive, The Japan Times, EWG News, Our Daily Planet, ThinkProgress, American Society of Mechanical Engineers Capitol Update, and other publications.

D. Shawhan, “Co-Emission and Welfare Effects of Electricity Policy and Market Changes: Results from the EMF 32 Model Intercomparison Project.” Energy Economics, forthcoming.
Pre-print version at DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2018.03.034

C. Fischer, B. Mao, and D. Shawhan, “Trade between Mass- and Rate-Based Regulatory Regimes: Bad for Emissions?” Revise and resubmit at Energy Economics.

D. Shawhan and P. Picciano, “Costs and Benefits of Saving Unprofitable Generators: A Simulation Case Study for US Coal and Nuclear Power Plants.” Under review at Energy Policy.
Working paper version at http://www.rff.org/research/publications/costs-and-benefits-saving-unprofitable-generators-simulation-case-study-us.
Cited in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ruling document on the “Grid Resiliency Pricing Rule.”
Cited in The New York Times, The Houston Chronicle, The Washington Post, The Globe and Mail, The Washington Examiner, VOX, Axios Generate, and other publications.

Bistline, John, Daniel Shawhan, Geoffrey Blanford, Francisco de la Chesnaye, Biao Mao, Nidhi Santen, Ray Zimmerman, Alan Krupnick, “Systems Analysis in Electric Power Sector Modeling: Evaluating Model Complexity for Long-Range Planning.” Electric Power Research Institute and Resources for the Future, October 2017.
Available at http://www.rff.org/research/publications/systems-analysis-electric-power-sector-modeling-evaluating-model-complexity.

Biao Mao, Daniel Shawhan, Ray Zimmerman, Jubo Yan, Yujia Zhu, William Schulze, Richard Schuler, Daniel Tylavsky. “The Engineering, Economic and Environmental Electricity Simulation Tool (E4ST): Description and an Illustration of its Capability and Use as a Planning/Policy Analysis Tool.” Proceedings of the 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Koloa, HI, 2016, pp. 2317-2325. (peer review information at http://www.hicss.org/components.htm)
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2016.290
Won best paper award in the Electric Power Systems track.

Yujia Zhu; Tylavsky, D., “An optimization based network reduction method with generator placement,” in North American Power Symposium (electronic journal), pp.1-6, 4-6 Oct. 2015.
DOI: 10.1109/NAPS.2015.7335172

Di Shi; Tylavsky, D.J., “A Novel Bus-Aggregation-Based Structure-Preserving Power System Equivalent,” in Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on, vol.30, no.4, pp.1977-1986, July 2015.
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2014.2359447

Lamadrid, A.J.; Shawhan, D.L.; Murillo-Sanchez, C.E.; Zimmerman, R.D.; Yujia Zhu; Tylavsky, D.J.; Kindle, A.; Dar, Z., “Economic cost-benefit analysis for power system operations with environmental considerations,” in PowerTech, 2015 IEEE Eindhoven, pp.1-6, June 29-July 2, 2015.
DOI: 10.1109/PTC.2015.7232802

Alberto J. Lamadrid, Daniel L. Shawhan, Carlos Murillo-Sanchez, Ray D. Zimmerman, Yujia Zhu, Daniel J. Tylavsky, Andrew G. Kindle, and Zamiyad Dar, “Stochastically Optimized, Carbon-Reducing Dispatch of Storage, Generation, and Controllable Loads.” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol. 30, Issue 2, March 2015, pp. 1064–1075.
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2014.2388214

Daniel Shawhan, John Taber, Ray Zimmerman, Jubo Yan, Charles Marquet, William Schulze, Richard Schuler, Robert Thomas, Daniel Tylavsky, Di Shi, Nan Li, Ward Jewell, Trevor Hardy, and Zhouxing Hu. “A Detailed Power System Planning Model: Estimating the Long-Run Impact of Carbon-Reducing Policies.” Proceedings of the 48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Computer Society Press, January 2015, pp. 2497-2506. (peer review information at http://www.hicss.org/components.htm)
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2015.300

P. Sood, D. J. Tylavsky, Y. Qi, “Improved DC Network Models for Contingency Analysis,” North American Power Symposium, Pullman, Washington, September 2014, 6 pages.
DOI: 10.1109/NAPS.2014.6965414

Y. Zhu, D. J. Tylavsky, “An Optimization-Based Generator Placement Strategy in Network Reduction,” North American Power Symposium, Pullman Washington, September 2014, 6 pages.
DOI: 10.1109/NAPS.2014.6965401

Daniel L. Shawhan, John T. Taber, Di Shi, Ray D. Zimmerman, Jubo Yan, Charles M. Marquet, Yingying Qi, Biao Mao, Richard E. Schuler, William D. Schulze, and Daniel J. Tylavsky, “Does a Detailed Model of the Electricity Grid Matter? Estimating the Impacts of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative,” Resource and Energy Economics, Volume 36 Issue 1, January 2014, pp. 191–207.
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2013.11.015

C. E. Murillo-Sánchez, R. D. Zimmerman, C. L. Anderson and R. J. Thomas, “A Stochastic, Contingency-Based Security-Constrained Optimal Power Flow for the Procurement of Energy and Distributed Reserve”, Decision Support Systems, Volume 56, December 2013, Pages 1-10, ISSN 0167-9236.
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2013.04.006

J. Taber, D. Shawhan, R. Zimmerman, C. Marquet, M. Zhang, W. Schulze, R. Schuler, S. Whitley, “Mapping Energy Futures Using The SuperOPF Planning Tool: An Integrated Engineering, Economic and Environmental Model.” Proceedings of the 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Computer Society Press, January 2013, pages 2020-2029. (peer review information at http://www.hicss.org/components.htm)
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.391.

D. Shi, D. Shawhan, N. Li, D. J. Tylavsky, J. Taber, R. Zimmerman, “Optimal Generation Investment Planning: Part 1: Network Equivalents,” North American Power Symposium (electronic journal), Champaign, Illinois, September 2012, 6 pages.
DOI: 10.1109/NAPS.2012.6336375

N. Li, D. Shi, D. Shawhan, D. J. Tylavsky, J. Taber, R. Zimmerman, “Optimal Generation Investment Planning: Part 2: Application to the ERCOT System,” North American Power Symposium (electronic journal), Champaign, Illinois, September 2012, 6 pages.
DOI: 10.1109/NAPS.2012.6336374

Y. Qi, D. Shi, D. J. Tylavsky, “Impact of Assumptions on DC Power Flow Accuracy,” North American Power Symposium (electronic journal), Champaign, Illinois, September 2012, 6 pages.
DOI: 10.1109/NAPS.2012.6336395

D. Shi, D. J. Tylavsky, “An Improved Bus Aggregation Technique for Generating Network Equivalents,” 2012 IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, San Diego, CA, Jul. 2012, 8 pages.
DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2012.6344668

R. D. Zimmerman, C. E. Murillo-Sánchez, and R. J. Thomas, “MATPOWER: Steady-State Operations, Planning and Analysis Tools for Power Systems Research and Education,” Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 12-19, Feb. 2011.
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2010.2051168

“Facilitating Environmental Initiatives While Maintaining Efficient Markets and Electric System Reliability.” Power Systems Engineering Research Center. Daniel Shawhan, Doug Mitarotonda, John Taber, William Schulze, Robert J. Thomas, Timothy Mount, Richard Schuler, Ray Zimmerman, Daniel Tylavsky.
https://certs.lbl.gov/sites/default/files/pserc-facilitating-environ-initiatives-2009.pdf