RESUME

AREAS OF QUALIFICATION

Electric generation, transmission, and distribution: technical analysis, economics, and policy.

Wholesale electricity market analysis: interaction of economics, public policy, and technical issues in electricity restructuring, particularly involving transmission.

Merger and competition analysis: FERC merger guidelines, market power.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dr. Baldick has been involved in the electric utility industry since 1985 as a professional engineer, teacher, researcher, and consultant. During this time he has been involved in a number of projects, including:

• incentive properties of electricity tariffs;
• policy and economic analysis of case histories of transmission expansion;
• analysis of the effect of phase-shifting transformers on regional trade;
• theoretical analysis and development of a prototype distributed model of multi-region economic dispatch and electricity trading;
• development of a unit commitment model to minimize the cost of operation of a portfolio of generation;
• co-development of an electricity trading model of ERCOT and adjacent regions;
• development of prototype distributed state-estimation software;
• development of models of exercise of market power; and
• analysis of the variation of power transfer distribution factors used in flowgate transmission rights.

He has assisted several interveners in merger cases and has prepared presentations, testimony, and affidavits for federal and state bodies. Dr. Baldick has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of California Energy Institute and a Research Fellow at the Harvard Electricity Policy Group.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Professor, 2003-present; Associate Professor, 1998-2003. Taught classes and supervised PhD and Masters research in analysis of electricity markets.
• Utility Planning and Policy Group, Energy and Environment Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Staff Scientist, 1993. Analyzed the competitive effect of phase-shifting transformers in restructured wholesale electricity markets.
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Assistant Professor, 1992-1993. Taught classes and supervised Masters research.
• Utility Planning and Policy Group, Energy and Environment Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1991-1992. Analyzed electric transmission policy.
• System Planning and Control Divisions, Electricity Commission of New South Wales, Australia, Professional Engineer, Grade 1, 1985-1986. Developed software for electricity system planning and control; performed transmission planning studies.

COURSES AND SEMINARS

• The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC),
• Direct Energy
• Hunt Oil, LP,
• Koch Energy,
• Weil, Gotshal and Manges, LLP.

Dr. Baldick also teaches a one-day class on locational marginal pricing. Dr. Baldick is a regular participant at IEEE Power Engineering Society meetings and has given a number of seminars on his research at these meetings. He is the Chairman of the IEEE Power Engineering Society System Economics Sub-Committee. He has also presented seminars to:

• the Harvard Electricity Policy Group,
• the University of California Energy Institute,
• at an Infocast conference, and
• to several other university research groups.

SAMPLE EXPERIENCE

• Developed an approach to coordinating trade between regions while respecting transmission constraints. Supervised the implementation of prototype software.
• Supervised the development of a market analysis tool tailored to bilateral energy markets. Supervised its use in analyzing the economics of AC interconnection between ERCOT and the Eastern Interconnection.
• On behalf of interveners in a utility merger case, critiqued the merger applicants' merger analysis and provided expert testimony.
• On behalf of a coalition of generation owners, presented on the topic of capacity benefit margin at a technical conference held by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
• In a lawsuit between an electric utility and cities and municipalities, provided expert testimony on the nature of electric power flow.
• On behalf of interveners in a utility merger case, critiqued the merger applicants' merger analysis and their associated RTO filing.
• On behalf of interveners, critiqued the technical basis underlying the transmission congestion management scheme in the ERCOT interconnection, showing the economic inefficiencies of the scheme and suggesting alternatives.
• On behalf of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, investigated technical issues in the implementation of regional transmission organizations and standard market design.

EDUCATION

• University of California, Berkeley, PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 1990;
• University of California, Berkeley, M.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 1988;
• University of Sydney, Australia, B.E., Electrical Engineering, first-class honors, medal (pr. acc) 1985;
• University of Sydney, Australia, B.Sc., Physics and Pure Mathematics, 1983.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Power Engineering Society, Chair of System Economics Subcommittee of the Power Systems Analysis, Computing and Economics Committee.
• Member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

SELECTED REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

• Richard P. O'Neill, Ross Baldick, Udi Helman, Michael H. Rothkopf, and William Stewart, Jr., “Dispatchable Transmission in RTO Markets,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 20(1):171-179, February 2005. This paper considers active transmission owners who offer capacity into forward and spot markets.
• You Seok Son, Ross Baldick, Kwang-Ho Lee, and Shams Siddiqi, “Short-term Electricity Market Auction Game Analysis: Uniform and Pays-as-Bid Pricing,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 19(4):1990-1998, November 2004. This paper shows that the revenue equivalence theorem does not apply in a simple model of electricity markets.
• You Seok Son and Ross Baldick, “Hybrid Co-evolutionary Programming for Nash Equilibrium Search in Games with Local Optima,” IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 8(4):305-315, August 2004. This paper introduces the notion of "false equilibria" in the search for Nash equilibria and describes algorithms to avoid the false equilibria.
• You Seok Son, Ross Baldick, and Shams Siddiqi, “Reanalysis of 'Nash Equilibrium Bidding Strategies in a Bilateral Electricity Market',” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 19(2):1243-1244, May 2004. This paper critiques a previous analysis of an electricity market model.
• Javier Salmeron, Kevin Wood, and Ross Baldick, “Analysis of Electric Grid Security Under Terrorist Threat,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 19(2):905-912, May 2004. This paper introduces a model of optimal interdiction, that is, attack, of electric power networks and develops an algorithm to identify critical components in the system.
• Ross Baldick, Ryan Grant, and Edward Kahn, “Theory and Application of Linear Supply Function Equilibrium in Electricity Markets,” Journal of Regulatory Economics, 25(2):143-167, March 2004. This paper extends the application of supply function equilibrium theory in electricity markets and applies the analysis to divestitures in the England and Wales electricity market between 1996 and 2000.
• Ross Baldick, “Variation of Distribution Factors with Loading,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 18(4):1316-1323, November 2003. This paper analyzes theoretically the reasons why the “DC power flow” approximation holds so well in practice.
• Richard O'Neill, Udi Helman, Ross Baldick, William Stewart, Michael Rothkopf, “Contingent Transmission Rights in the Standard Market Design,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 18(4):1331-1337, November 2003. This paper proposes and analyzes rights to transmission that are consistent with Standard Market Design and provide “network service” to transmission customers.
• Kwang-Ho Lee and Ross Baldick, “Tuning of Discretization in Bimatrix Game Approach to Power System Market Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 18(2):830-836, May 2003. This paper develops an algorithm for solving for certain mixed strategy equilibria in electric power system markets.
• Ross Baldick, “Electricity market equilibrium models: The effect of parameterization,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 17(4):1170-1176, November 2002. This paper critically analyzes various supply function equilibrium models and argues that some published results are the artifacts of modeling assumptions that are unrealistic.
• Lance B. Cunningham, Ross Baldick, and Martin L. Baughman, “An Empirical Study of Applied Game Theory: Transmission Constrained Cournot Behavior,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 17(1):166-172, February 2002. This paper describes an economic model of an electricity market where there are significant transmission constraints.
• R. Baldick, A. B. Kahng, A. A. Kennings, and I. L. Markov, “Efficient Optimization by Modifying the Objective Function,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, 48(8), August 2001. This paper describes an approach to approximating objective functions that arise in the optimization of integrated circuit layout with a view to utilizing standard optimization techniques to optimize layouts.
• Reza Ebrahimian and Ross Baldick, “State Estimation Condition Number Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 16(2):273--279, May 2001. This paper describes an analysis of the effect of type and placement of measurements in an electric utility state-estimation system.
• Reza Ebrahimian and Ross Baldick, “State Estimation Distributed Processing,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 15(4):1240-1246, November 2000. This paper describes the development of prototype distributed state-estimation software.
• Balho H. Kim and Ross Baldick, “A Comparison of Distributed Optimal Power Flow Algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 15(2):599-604, May 2000. This paper develops and compares several algorithms for multi-region economic dispatch.
• Ross Baldick, Balho H. Kim, Craig Chase, and Yufeng Luo, “A Fast Distributed Implementation of Optimal Power Flow,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 14(3):858-864, August 1999. This paper describes the development of a prototype distributed model of multi-region economic dispatch and electricity trading.
• Shih-Yih Lai and Ross Baldick, “Unit Commitment with Ramp Multipliers,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 14(1):58-64, February 1999. This paper describes a unit commitment model to minimize the cost of operation of a portfolio of generation while respecting ramping constraints.
• Gustavo de Veciana and Ross Baldick, “Resource Allocation in Multi-service Networks via Pricing: Statistical Multiplexing,” Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 30(9-10):951-962, May 1998. This paper presents an approach to pricing services in a network that enables multiple services to be accommodated within a single pricing framework.
• N. Menezes, R. Baldick, and L.T. Pileggi, “A Sequential Quadratic Programming Approach to Concurrent Gate and Wire Sizing,” IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, 16(8):867-881, August 1997. This paper presents an approach to design of interconnect and gates in integrated circuits that minimizes area while respecting delay constraints.
• Balho Kim and Ross Baldick, “Coarse-grained Distributed Optimal Power Flow,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 12(2):932-939, May 1997. This paper describes theoretical analysis for a distributed model of multi-region economic dispatch and electricity trading.
• Ross Baldick and Edward Kahn, “Contract Paths, Phase-Shifters, and Efficient Electricity Trade,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 12(2):749-755, May 1997. This paper analyzes the effect of phase-shifting transformers on regional trade.
• Ross Baldick and Edward Kahn, “A Linear Model of Voltage Limited Transmission Interface Constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 10(1):476-482, February 1995. This paper develops a model of voltage constrained transmission corridors.
• Edward Kahn and Ross Baldick, “Reactive Power is a Cheap Constraint,” The Energy Journal, 15(4):191-201, December 1994. This paper compares the economic value of relieving voltage constraints to the cost of reactive elements such as capacitors.