'Quantifying the impacts of sustainable energy through electrical grid modeling and emissions accounting'

Dr. Jarod Kelly is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan with support from the Alcoa Foundation's Conservation and Sustainability Fellowship.  His work examines the pollutant emissions impact of changes in electricity supply (due to renewable electricity) and demand (due to plugin hybrid electric vehicles).  Dr. Kelly has developed several mathematical models of electrical grids that are applied to study the geographic and temporal impacts of those supply and demand changes on pollutant emissions.  Dr. Kelly earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Oklahoma, and an MSE and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan.  Dr. Kelly's doctoral thesis focused on integrating shape preference information along with engineering design objectives and constraints in the design of consumer products.  The work also provided foundational research regarding the use of interactive genetic algorithms in preference assessment.