Seth Blumsack

IEE Faculty Member
Titles and Affiliations
Professor, John and Willie Leone Department of Energy & Mineral Engineering (EME)

Research Summary

Energy and electric power systems; regulation and deregulation of network industries; congestion pricing and management; complex systems and network theory; green design of products, processes, and systems; antitrust economics and the measurement of market power; and infrastructure management and investment.

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Projects

Recent Publications

Minitrack on Distributed, Renewable and Mobile Resources

Blumsack, S., Jewell, W., Cardell, J. & Smith, J. C., 2024, In: Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. p. 2886 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalEditorialpeer-review

A stochastic optimization framework to planing for geographically correlated failures in coupled natural gas and electric power systems

Su, W., Blumsack, S. & Webster, M. D., Jun 2024, In: Reliability Engineering and System Safety. 246, 110049.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Minitrack on Distributed, Renewable and Mobile Resources

Blumsack, S., Jewell, W. & Smith, J. C., 2023, In: Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 2023-January, p. 2526 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalEditorialpeer-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 journalArticlepeer-review

Minitrack on Distributed, Renewable and Mobile Resources

Blumsack, S., Jewell, W. & Smith, J. C., 2022, In: Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 2022-January, p. 3388 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalEditorialpeer-review

Transition to Low-Carbon Electric Power: Portfolios, Flexibility, and Option Value

Webster, M., Zhao, B., Bukenberger, J. & Blumsack, S., Jul 5 2022, In: Environmental Science and Technology. 56, 13, p. 9583-9592 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Minitrack on distributed, renewable and mobile resources

Blumsack, S., Jewell, W. & Smith, J. C., 2021, In: Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 2020-January, p. 3091 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalEditorialpeer-review

Could on-site fuel storage economically reduce power plant-gas grid dependence in pipeline constrained areas like New England?

Freeman, G. M., Apt, J., Blumsack, S. & Coleman, T., Jun 2021, In: Electricity Journal. 34, 5, 106956.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Emissions and Health Implications of Pennsylvania’s Entry into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Yang, H., Pham, A. T., Landry, J. R., Blumsack, S. A. & Peng, W., Sep 21 2021, In: Environmental Science and Technology. 55, 18, p. 12153-12161 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Minitrack on distributed, renewable and mobile resources

Blumsack, S., Jewell, W. & Smith, J. C., 2020, In: Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. 2020-January, p. 2949 1 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalEditorialpeer-review

Integrating embedded resources and network analysis to understand food-energy-water nexus in the US

Mahjabin, T., Mejia, A., Blumsack, S. & Grady, C., Mar 20 2020, In: Science of the Total Environment. 709, 136153.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A real options approach to production and injection timing under uncertainty for CO2 sequestration in depleted shale gas reservoirs

Tayari, F. & Blumsack, S., Apr 1 2020, In: Applied Energy. 263, 114491.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Estimating loadability region of natural gas system via monotone inner polytope sequence

Wu, D., Nie, T., Turitsyn, K., Blumsack, S. & Blumsack, S., Jun 2020, In: IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. 7, 2, p. 660-672 13 p., 8811592.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

The Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Security, Sustainability, and Systems Perspectives

Grady, C. A., Blumsack, S., Mejia, A. & Peters, C. A., Jul 2019, In: Environmental Engineering Science. 36, 7, p. 761-762 2 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-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 journalArticlepeer-review