Research Summary
Research interests include energy industry restructuring, pricing issues and market design in the United States. Her current work focuses on equilibrium models of price manipulation in multi-settlement electricity markets; optimization models for the analysis of economic, environmental and reliability impacts of microgrid penetration in power networks; economic models assessing price and welfare effects of natural gas pipeline expansion projects.
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Recent Publications
Capacity markets vs. “energy only” markets with improved scarcity pricing under increasing wind penetration
Hohl, C. & Lo Prete, C., Dec 2025, In: Renewable Energy Focus. 55, 100738.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Time for a market upgrade? A review of wholesale electricity market designs for the future
Lo Prete, C., Palmer, K. & Robertson, M., Aug 2025, In: Energy Economics. 148, 108640.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Comparing designs for resource adequacy in laboratory electricity markets
Wu, J., Lo Prete, C., Rong, R., Ünel, B. & Zhu, F., Oct 2025, In: Energy Economics. 150, 108831.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Electricity grids and geopolitics: A game-theoretic analysis of the synchronization of the Baltic States’ electricity networks with Continental Europe
Fang, S., Jaffe, A. M., Loch-Temzelides, T. & Lo Prete, C., May 2024, In: Energy Policy. 188, 114068.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
California’s Cap-and-Trade Program and Emission Leakage in the Western Interconnection: Comparing Econometric and Partial Equilibrium Model Estimates
Prete, C. L., Tyagi, A. & Xu, Q., Mar 2024, In: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. 11, 2, p. 359-402 44 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Intraday markets, wind integration and uplift payments in a regional U.S. power system
Hohl, C., Lo Prete, C., Radhakrishnan, A. & Webster, M., Apr 2023, In: Energy Policy. 175, 113503.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Leader–follower equilibria to examine investment decisions in grid resilience-enhancing measures
Lo Prete, C. & Radhakrishnan, A., Feb 2023, In: Risk Analysis. 43, 2, p. 280-307 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Enhancing the Reliability of Bulk Power Systems against the Threat of Extreme Weather: Lessons from the 2021 Texas Electricity Crisis
Prete, C. L. & Blumsack, S., 2023, In: Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy. 12, 2, p. 31-47 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
What happened in Texas? Understanding the February 2021 blackouts and learning lessons to prepare the grid for extreme weather events: An introduction
Prete, C. L. & Rosellón, J., 2023, In: Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy. 12, 2, p. 1-3 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Energy Transformation, Social Inclusion, and Economic Prosperity in Latin America: An Introduction
Montoya, F. C., Prete, C. L., Rosellón, J. & Parra, P. Y., 2022, In: Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy. 11, 2Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
Cross-product manipulation with intertemporal constraints: An equilibrium model
Guo, N. & Lo Prete, C., Nov 2019, In: Energy Policy. 134, 110851.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Weather or not? Welfare impacts of natural gas pipeline expansion in the northeastern U.S.
Kleit, A., Lo Prete, C., Blumsack, S. & Guo, N., Aug 1 2019, In: Energy Systems. 10, 3, p. 593-633 41 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Cross-product manipulation in electricity markets, microstructure models and asymmetric information
Lo Prete, C., Hogan, W. W., Liu, B. & Wang, J., 2019, In: Energy Journal. 40, 5, p. 221-246 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Virtual Bidding and Financial Transmission Rights: An Equilibrium Model for Cross-Product Manipulation in Electricity Markets
Lo Prete, C., Guo, N. & Shanbhag, U. V., Mar 2019, In: IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 34, 2, p. 953-967 15 p., 8489945.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A cooperative game theoretic analysis of incentives for microgrids in regulated electricity markets
Lo Prete, C. & Hobbs, B. F., May 1 2016, In: Applied Energy. 169, p. 524-541 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review