Sean Ericson is a Research Staff Level V in the Energy Systems and Climate Analysis Group at EPRI. His research focuses on long-term capacity expansion planning, low-carbon pathways, and the economics of resilience and power outages.
Prior to joining EPRI, Sean was a researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, where he headed research on resilience and the economics of power outages, in addition to supporting research on residential energy efficiency and DER. Sean also developed several publicly available NREL tools. Sean has six years of experience in the energy sector and holds a Masters in Mineral and Energy Economics from the Colorado School of Mines and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Recent Publications
- [1] S Ericson, J Cox, M Abdelmalak, E Hotchkiss, (2022). “Exceedance Probabilities and Recurrence Intervals for U.S. Extended Power Outage Events”, NREL Technical Report.
- [2] J Marqusee, W Becker, S Ericson, (2021). “Resilience and Economics of Microgrids with PV, Battery Storage, and Networked Diesel Generators,” Advances in Applied Energy. Vol. 3, August; 100049.
- [3] S Ericson, L Lisell. (2020). “A Flexible Framework for Modeling Customer Damage Functions for Powe Outages,” Energy Systems. Vol 11, November, 95-111.
- [4] S Ericson, D Kaffine, P Maniloff. (2020). “Costs of increasing oil and gas setbacks are initially modest but rise sharply,” Energy Policy. Vol 146, 111749.