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Joseph Roop

Joseph Roop

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999
Richland, WA 99352

Biography

Joe Roop has been with PNNL since 1981. Dr. Roop's professional career includes a broad range of experience in the analysis and modeling of energy and policy systems, both domestic and international. He is currently engaged in three projects: he leads a team building and maintaining a system of indicators to track energy-intensity improvements in the U.S. economy. Initiated under President Bush's Energy Strategy, this system of indicators was publicly released last year. He also leads the industrial modeling project for EERE's SEDS (Stochastic Energy Deployment System). FY07 should also see the completion of an analysis tool, SEADS (Sectoral Energy/Employment Analysis and Data System).

He served as chief economist for the Energy Systems Transformation Initiative, integrating economics into the electricity distribution system to explore the responsiveness of electricity use to real-time changes in prices. This lab initiative has evolved into a major DOE program called GridWise™, which is an entirely new way to think about how we generate, deliver, and use energy through advanced communications and information technology.

In addition, he manages analysis work for the Industrial Technologies Program and has a program with the Analysis Group of EERE's Office of Planning, Analysis and Evaluation. He is currently calibrating the industrial sector of an energy demand model to U.S. Data that will be run in conjunction with a similar Canadian model to explore joint impacts of climate change policies.

Research Interests

  • Economics of Industrial Energy Use
  • Electricity/Power Markets
  • Energy Policy
  • Input-Output Analysis

Education and Credentials

  • B.S., Economics, Central Missouri State University
  • Ph.D., Economics, Washington State University

Selected Publications

2009

2008

  • Scott MJ, JM Roop, RW Schultz, DM Anderson, and KA Cort. 2008. "The Impact of DOE Building Technology Energy Efficiency Programs on U.S. Employment, Income, and Investment." Energy Economics 30(5):2283-2301. 

2007

  • Anderson DM, and JM Roop. 2007. "Book Review: The Technology-Energy-Environment-Health (TEEH) Chain in China: A Case Study of Cokemaking." Journal of Regional Science 47(2):397-398.  doi:10.1111/j.1467-9787.2007.00513_13.x
  • Greening LA, GA Boyd, and JM Roop. 2007. "Modeling of Industrial Energy Consumption: An Introduction and Context." Energy Economics 29(4):599-608.  doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2007.02.011
  • Roop JM, DA Anderson, RW Schultz, and DB Elliott. 2007. SEADS 3.0 Sectoral Energy/Employment Analysis and Data System . PNNL-17011, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 

2005

  • Roop JM, MJ Scott, and RW Schultz. 2005. ImSET: Impact of Sector Energy Technologies. PNNL-15273, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Roop JM, EM Fathelrahman, and SE Widergren. 2005. "Price Response Can Make the Grid Robust: An Agent-based Discussion ." In IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, San Francisco, June 12 - 16, 2005, pp. 1100-1104.  IEEE Power Engineering Society, New York. 

2004

  • Boyd GA, and JM Roop. 2004. "A Note on the Fisher Ideal Index Decomposition for Structural Change in Energy Intensity." The Energy Journal 25(1):87-101. 
  • Weakley SA, and JM Roop. 2004. "U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Programs and Their Impacts." In Proceedings, 26th Industrial Energy Technology Conference, April, 2004, pp. 65-72.  Texas A&M University, Houston, TX. 
  • Widergren SE, JM Roop, RT Guttromson, and Z Huang. 2004. "Simulating the Dynamic Coupling of Market and Physical System Operations." In IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2004, vol. 1, pp. 748-753.  IEEE Power Engineering Society, Piscataway, NJ. 

2003

  • Anderson DM, and JM Roop. 2003. "The Role of Steel in the US Economy: Decomposing the 1982-1997 Forward and Backward Linkages of the Steel Industry." In 2003 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry, pp. 6-13 - 6-23.  ACEEE, Rye, NY. 
  • Anderson DM, and JM Roop. 2003. "The Role of Steel in the US Economy: Decomposing the 1982-1997 Forward and Backward Linkages of the Steel Industry." In Proceedings. 2003 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry : Sustainability and Industry : Increasing Energy Efficiency and Reducing Emissions, vol. CD-ROM, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Washington, DC. 
  • Balducci PJ, JM Roop, LA Schienbein, JG DeSteese, and MR Weimar. 2003. "Electric Power Interruption Cost Estimates for Individual Industries, Sectors and the U.S. Economy." In Proceedings of 25th National Industrial Energy Technology Conference, pp. 109-118.  Texas A&M, Houston, TX. 
  • Roop JM, and EM Fathelrahman. 2003. "Modeling Electric Contract Choice: An Agent Based Approach." In Proceedings. 2003 ACEEE Summer Study in Efficiency in Industry, Sustainability and Industry: Increasing Energy Efficiency and Reducing Emissions, vol. CD-ROM, Amercian Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Washington, DC. 
  • Balducci PJ, JM Roop, and RA Fowler. 2003. "EIA and CHP: What is going on?" In Proceedings. 2003 ACEEE Summer Study in Efficiency in Industry : Sustainability and Industry: Increasing Energy Efficiency and Reducing Emissions, vol. CD-ROM, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Washington, DC. 

2002

2001

  • Edmonds JA, JM Roop, and MJ Scott. 2001. "Technological Change and Its Effects on Mitigation Costs." In Climate Change: Science, Strategies, & Solutions, ed. Eileen Claussen, Vicki Arroyo Cochran, Debra P. Davis, pp. 209-226.  Brill, Boston, MA. 
  • Placet M, SA Weakley, and JM Roop. 2001. "Energy, Cost-Savings and Pollution-Reduction Impacts of Industrial Programs Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy." In National Industrial Energy Technology Conference, May 23, 2001, Houston, TX, pp. 184-190.  Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. 

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