Francisco Ralston Fonseca is a Climate and Energy Analyst in the Energy Systems and Climate Analysis group at EPRI.
Before joining EPRI, Francisco worked as a Researcher at the department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he focused on modeling and analyzing climate-induced impacts in the power sector. Francisco also worked for seven years as an energy analyst at Power System Research (PSR), a provider of technological solutions and consulting services for the energy sector in Brazil. At PSR, Francisco worked with regulatory and economic-financial analysis of generation assets, and the development of decision-support models used for energy auction bidding and for optimization of renewable energy portfolios in Brazil.
Francisco holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering at PUC-Rio (Brazil), a MS in Operations Research at Columbia University, and a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy at CMU.
Recent Publications
- [1] F. Ralston Fonseca, M. Craig, P. Jaramillo, M. Bergés, E. Severnini, et al. “Climate-Induced Tradeoffs in Planning and Operating Costs of a Regional Electricity System”. In: Environmental Science & Technology (Aug. 2021). doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c01334
- [2] F. Ralston Fonseca, M. Craig, P. Jaramillo, M. Bergés, E. Severnini, et al. “Effects of Climate Change on Capacity Expansion Decisions of an Electricity Generation Fleet in the Southeast U.S.”. In: Environmental Science & Technology (Feb. 2021). doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c06547
- [3] F. Ralston Fonseca, P. Jaramillo, M. Bergés, and E. Severnini. “Seasonal effects of climate change on intra-day electricity demand patterns”. In: Climatic Change 154 (June 2019). doi: 10.1007/s10584-019-02413-w