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Armstrong, Dave; Kirsch, Laurence; Morey, Mathew. Analysis of the Electricity Price Impacts of Alternative Carbon Emission Cap-and-Trade Programs in the Midwest. Prepared on behalf of Indiana Municipal Power Agency, Madison Gas and Electric Company, Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission, Missouri River Energy Services, Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency, and WPPI Energy. March 31, 2009.

Morey, Mat, Bruce Chapman, Laurence Kirsch, Emilie McHugh, and Brad Wagner. "The Regional Transmission Organization Report Card: Wholesale Electricity Markets and RTO Performance Evaluation." Prepared for National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. October 24, 2006.

Morey, Mat., and Laurence D. Kirsch. "Transmission Risk Management." Prepared for the Electric Power Research Institute. August 2006.

Kirsch, Laurence D. "Long Term Transmission Rights: A High-Stakes Debate." Public Utilities Fortnightly March 2006.

Kirsch, Laurence D, and Mat Morey. "Efficient Allocation of Reserve Costs in RTO Markets." The Electricity Journal (October):43-51. 2006.

Kirsch, Laurence D., and Mat Morey. "Hedging the Long-Term Transmission Pricing Risks Associated with Generation Investments." Report #1010693. Palo Alto: EPRI. December 2005.

Kirsch, Laurence D., Blagoy Borissov, and Rajesh Rajaraman. "How Operating Reserve Markets Can Assist in Managing Transmission Congestion." Palo Alto: EPRI. December 2005.

Morey, Mat., and Laurence D. Kirsch. "Beyond Belief: A Critique of the Cambridge Energy Research Associates' Special Report." Prepared for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. November 17, 2005.

Camfield, Robert, Laurence D. Kirsch, Mathew J. Morey, and Michael Welsh. Assessment Of Other Factors:Benefit-Cost Analysis Of Transmission Expansion Plans. American Transmission Company. August 15, 2005.

Morey, Mat., and Laurence D. Kirsch. "Global Energy Decision's 'Putting Competitive Power Markets to the Test': An Alternative View of the Evidence." Prepared for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. August 2005.

Kirsch, Laurence D., B. Kelly Eakin, and Mat Morey. "RTOs and Electricity Restructuring: The Chasm Between Promise and Practice." The Electricity Journal (January/February):31-51. 2005.

Kirsch, Laurence D., and Daniel Hansen. "Analysis of PJM's Transmission Rights Markets." Report 1008523. Palo Alto: EPRI. December 2004.

Kirsch, Laurence D., Blagoy Borissov, and Rajesh Rajaraman. "Survey of Operating Reserves Markets in ISO-Run Power Systems." Report 1008521, Palo Alto: EPRI. December 2004.

Morey, Mat., and Laurence D. Kirsch. "Critique of the Charles River Associates Study 'The Benefits And Costs In North Carolina Of Dominion North Carolina Power Joining PJM'." Prepared for the Public Staff of the North Carolina Utilities Commission. September 30, 2004.

Morey, Mat, and Laurence D. Kirsch. "Supplemental Investigation Into the Costs and Benefits to Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company in the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc." Prepared for LGE Energy Corporation. September 29, 2004.

Eakin, Kelly, and Laurence D. Kirsch. "Market Monitoring and Market Power Mitigation in FERC'S Proposed Standard Market Design." EnergyPulse. December 30, 2002.

Eakin, Kelly, Steven D. Braithwait, Laurence D. Kirsch, and Mat Morey. "Erecting Sandcastles from Numbers: The CAEM Study of Restructuring Electricity Markets– or–A Critique of 'Estimating the Benefits of Restructuring Electricity Markets: An Application to the PJM Region'." Prepared for National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. December 2003.

Kirsch, Laurence D., Blagoy Borissov, and Kelly Eakin. "The Fundamentals of Locational Marginal Pricing (LMP): Examples of Pricing Outcomes on the PJM System." Research Project 057180. Palo Alto: EPRI. December 2003.

Kirsch, Laurence D., Blagoy Borissov, and Rajesh Rajaraman. "Economics of Operating Reserve Markets." Research Project 057180. Palo Alto: EPRI. November 2003.

Morey, Mat, Blagoy Borissov, Robert J. Camfield, and Laurence D. Kirsch. "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of RTO Options for LGE Energy Corporation." Prepared for LGE Energy Corporation. September 22, 2003.

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.

Eakin, Kelly, Steven D. Braithwait, and Laurence D. Kirsch. "Encouraging Demand Participation in Texas Power Markets." A report to the Public Utilities Commission of Texas. August 31, 2002.

Kirsch, Laurence D., and Rajesh Rajaraman. "How Transmission Affects Market Power In Reserve Services." In Electricity Pricing in Transition A. Faruqui and K. Eakin, eds., Boston: Kluwer Academic Press. 2002.

Kirsch, Laurence D., and Rajesh Rajaraman. "Assuring Enough Generation: Whose Job and How to Do It." Public Utilities Fortnightly (April 15): 34-42. 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, 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., and Ross Hemphill. "Redesigning Distribution Tariffs for Restructured Electric Power Markets." Edison Electric Institute. April 2000.

Kirsch, Laurence D. "Pricing The Grid: Comparing Transmission Rates of the U.S. ISOs." Public Utilities Fortnightly February 15, 2000.

Kirsch, Laurence D., and Robert Camfield. "Developing and Pricing Distribution Services." In Pricing in Competitive Electricity Markets, A. Faruqui and K. Eakin, eds., Amsterdam: Kluwer Academic Press. 2000.

Kirsch, Laurence D., Fernando Alvarado, and Rajesh Rajaraman. "Managing Transmission Risk." Report TR-114276. Palo Alto: EPRI. December 1999.

Kirsch, Laurence D. "ISO Economics: How California Flubbed It on Transmission Pricing." Public Utilities Fortnightly October 15, 1998.

Kirsch, Laurence D., David Armstrong, and Cara Lee Mahany Braithwait. "Dynamic Pricing and the Future of Distributed Generation." Boulder, Colorado: E SOURCE. September 1998.

Kirsch, Laurence D., David Armstrong, and Cara Lee Mahany Braithwait. "Dynamic Pricing and the Future of Distributed Generation." Boulder, Colorado: E SOURCE. September 1998.

Kirsch, Laurence D., Theresa Flaim, Joseph Hipius, Meg Krantz, and R. Sullivan. "Developing Marginal Costs for Real-Time Pricing. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 3(3). August 1988.

Kirsch, Laurence D., and Ahmad Faruqui. "Unbundling Electric Discos." Public Utilities Fortnightly (April 1):40-45. 1998.

Kirsch, Laurence D., and Rajesh Rajaraman. "Profiting from Operating Reserves." The Electricity Journal (March):40-49. 1998.

Kirsch, Laurence D., David Armstrong, Koenrad Driessens, and Cesear Herrera. "Survey of Unbundled Electric Power Services." Report TR-109461. Palo Alto: EPRI. February 1998.

Kirsch, Laurence D., Charles Clark, and Rajesh Rajaraman. "Costing and Pricing Electric Power Reserve Services." Report TR-108916. Palo Alto: EPRI. December 1997.

Kirsch, Laurence D. "Preparing the Ground for Pricing Unbundled Electricity Services: The Importance of Markets." Report TR-106933. Palo Alto: EPRI. November 1996.

Kirsch, Laurence D., and Larry Kaufman. "Developing Unbundled Electric Power Service Offerings: Case Studies of Methods and Issues." Report 40-96-31. Washington: Edison Electric Institute. October 1996.

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.

Kirsch, Laurence D. "Pricing Competitive Electricity Services: Principles and Segmentation Techniques." Report TR-106215. Chapters 1-6 and Appendices A through D. Palo Alto: EPRI. March 1996.

Kirsch, Laurence D., and Harry Singh. "Pricing Ancillary Electric Power Services." The Electricity Journal October 1995.

Kirsch, Laurence D. "Practical Barriers to Efficient Wholesale Pricing, Proceedings: 1994 Innovative Electric Pricing." Report TR-103629. Palo Alto: EPRI. February 1994.

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.

Kirsch, Laurence D., and Douglas W. Caves. "Comment on 'Value of Service Reliability' by Sandra Burns and George Gross." IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 5(3). August 1990.

Glyer, David, Douglas W. Caves, and Laurence D. Kirsch. “Discussion of 90 SM 389-7 PWWRS 'Economic Analysis of Reliability-Differentiated Service by Narayan S. Rau and Youssef A. Hegazy." IEEE Transactions. 1990.

Kirsch, Laurence D. "Customer Outage Costs: Their Role in System Planning and Pricing." New Dimensions in Pricing Electricity: Proceedings, Report CU-6300. Palo Alto: EPRI. April 1989.