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Publications by Fernando Alvarado
Kirsch, Laurence D., Fernando Alvarado, and Blagoy Borissov. "Reactive Power as an Identifiable Ancillary Service." Transmission Administrator of Alberta. March 18, 2003.
Morey, Mat., Fernando Alvarado, Blagoy Borrisov, Ross Hemphill, Laurence D. Kirsch, and Rajesh Rajaraman. "Congestion Management System (CMS) Implementation Studies Related to Congestion." Laurits R. Christensen Associates, Inc., prepared for the Independent System Operator of New England. January 14, 2003.
Rajaraman, Rajesh, and Fernando L. Alvarado. "(Dis)Proving Market Power." January 2002.
Alvarado, Fernando, Charlie Clark, Laurence D. Kirsch, and Rajesh Rajaraman. "Reserve Services and Transmission: Responding to Energy and Reserve Prices." Presentation at the Next Generation of Unit Commitment Models' Kluwer Academic. 2001.
Kirsch, Laurence D., Fernando Alvarado, Charles Clark, and Rajesh Rajaraman. "Optimal Self-Commitment under Uncertain Energy and Reserve Prices." In The Next Generation of Electric Power Unit Commitment Models B. F. Hobbs, M. H. Rothkopf, R. P. O'Neill, and H. Chao, eds., Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2001.
Alvarado, Fernando, and M. Fahrioglu. "Designing Incentive Compatible Contracts for Effective Demand Management." IEEE Transmission on Power Systems 15(4):1255-1260. November 2000.
Rajaraman, Rajesh, and Fernando L. Alvarado. "On the Inherent Inefficiencies of TLR for Trading Electricity." MEET Workshop. August 2000.
Alvarado, Fernando L., and Rajesh Rajaraman. "Understanding Price Volatility in Electricity Markets." Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii, (Best Paper Award). January 2000.
Kirsch, Laurence D., Fernando Alvarado, and Rajesh Rajaraman. "Managing Transmission Risk." Report TR-114276. Palo Alto: EPRI. December 1999.
Rajaraman, Rajesh, and Fernando L. Alvarado. "The Best Game in Town: NERC's TLR Rules." IEEE Winter Power Meeting. 1999.
Alvarado, Fernando, and Rajesh Rajaraman. "Inefficiencies of NERC's Transmission Loading Relief Procedure." The Electricity Journal Elsevier Publishers: 47-54. October 1998.
Alvarado, Fernando, and T. Orfanogianni. "Efficient Orthogonal Factorization for Constraint Addition and Removal in QP based Optimal Power Flows." EPSOM'98, Zurich. September 23-25, 1998.
Alvarado, Fernando. "Market Power: A Dynamic Definition." Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control -- IV Restructuring, Santorini: Greece. August 24-28, 1998.
Alvarado, Fernando, and M. Fahrioglu. "The Design of Optimal Demand Management Programs." Proceedings of the 1998 Conference on Bulk Power Systems Dynamics and Control -- IV Restructuring, Santorini: Greece. August 24--28, 1998.
Alvarado, Fernando, Rajaraman, Rajesh, Niemeyer, V., Schulz, F. "Location Based Trading and Risk Management." EPRI Innovating Pricing Conference. Washington, DC. June 1998.
Alvarado, Fernando, Robert J. Camfield, S. Jalali, Arthur Maniaci, and Rajesh Rajaraman. "Determination of Location and Amount of Series Compensation to Increase Power Transfer Capability." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 13(2). May 1998.
Alvarado, Fernando L., and H. Glavitsch. "Management of Multiple Congested Conditions in Unbundled Operation of a Power System." 1997 PICA Conference Proceedings, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, pp. 374-380. 1998.
Alvarado, Fernando L. "Managing Transmission Risk: The Theory of Spatial Hedging and Arbitrage." 1998.
Alvarado, Fernando, I. Dobson, and S. Greene. "The Sensitivity of the Loading Margin to Voltage Collapse with Respect to Arbitrary Parameters." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 12(1). February 1997.
Alvarado, Fernando. "Matrix Enlarging Methods and their Application." BIT 37(3):473-505. 1997.
Alvarado, Fernando. "Rules of The Road and Electric Traffic Controllers: Making a Virtual Utility Possible." S. Awerbuch and S. Preston, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1997.
Alvarado, Fernando L., W. Liu, and H. Singh. "Constrained LAV State Estimation using Penalty Functions." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 1997.
Alvarado, Fernando, and Robert J. Camfield. "Open Transmission Access: An Efficient Minimal Role for the ISO." 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kiehei, Maui, Hawaii. January 1997.
Kirsch, Laurence D., Fernando Alvarado, Romkaew Broehm, and A. Panvini. "Retail Pricing of Reactive Power Service, Proceedings: 1996 EPRI Conference on Innovative Approaches to Electricity Pricing." Report TR-106232. Palo Alto: EPRI. March 1996.
Alvarado, Fernando. "Technical Foundations for Pricing Security, in Service Opportunities for Electric Utilities: Creating Differentiated Products." S. S. Oren and S. A. Smith, eds., Kluwer Academic Publisher: 122-146. 1993.
Alvarado, Fernando L., A. Pothen, and R. Schreiber. "Highly Parallel Sparse Triangular Solution, in Graph Theory Issues and Algorithms." J. A. George, J. W. H. Liu, and J. R. Gilbert, eds., Springer-Verlag. 1993.
Kirsch, Laurence D., and Fernando Alvarado. "Comment on 'Pricing for System Security' by R. J. Kaye, F. F. Wu, and P. Varaiya." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 92 WM 100-8 PWRS.
Alvarado, Fernando, M. Enns, and W. Tinney. "Sparsity in Large-Scale Network Computation, in Advances in Electric Power and Energy Conversion System Dynamics, and Control." C. T. Leondes, ed., Academic Press. 1991.

