Michael Craig (E 2017)
(he/him)
About
Michael Craig earned his doctorate in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 2017. His PhD research focused on using optimization and statistical tools to study the electric power system. Most of his research used long-term planning and short-term operational models of the power system to assess economic and emissions impacts of changes in the power sector, including the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration and energy storage systems. Craig was also instrumental in coordinating an extensive modeling effort to evaluate the climate impacts on the power sector in the Southeastern U.S. Such work was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation and involved a large multi-disciplinary team from Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Washington, the George Washington University, and the University of Missouri. The power system models he built were at the core of the project. Craig is now an Assistant Professor in the School of Environment and Sustainability and the College of Engineering’s Industrial and Operations Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. He recently received an NSF CAREER proposal (2022). Through his CAREER project, he aims to better how power systems can decarbonize while delivering reliable and affordable electricity under a changing climate.
First Author Publications during PhD
Craig, M.T., Jaramillo, P., Zhai, H., Klima, K. (2017). The economic merits of flexible carbon capture and sequestration as a compliance strategy with the Clean Power Plan. Environmental Science and Technology, 51(3), 1102-1109. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b03652
Craig, M.T., Zhai, H., Jaramillo, P., & Klima, K. (2017). Trade-offs in cost and emission reductions between flexible and normal carbon capture and sequestration under carbon dioxide emission constraints. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 66, 25–34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2017.09.003
Craig, M.T., Jaramillo, P., & Hodge, B.M. (2018). Carbon dioxide emissions effects of grid-scale electricity storage in a decarbonizing power system. Environmental Research Letters, 13(1), 014004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa9a78
Craig, M.T., Jaramillo, P., Hodge, B.M., Williams, N.J., & Severnini, E. (2018). A retrospective analysis of the market price response to distributed photovoltaic generation in California. Energy Policy, 121, 394-403. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.05.061
Craig was no longer a student when the following two papers came out, but some of his PhD work was used for these papers:
Ralston Fonseca, F., Craig, M., Jaramillo, P., Bergés, M., Severnini, E., Loew, A., Zhai, H., Cheng, Y., Nijssen, B., Voisin, N., & Yearsley, J. (2021). Climate-induced tradeoffs in planning and operating costs of a regional electricity system. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(16), 11204–11215. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c01334
Ralston Fonseca, F., Craig, M., Jaramillo, P., Bergés, M., Severnini, E., Loew, A., Zhai, H., Cheng, Y., Nijssen, B., Voisin, N., & Yearsley, J. (2021). Effects of climate change on capacity expansion decisions of an electricity generation fleet in the southeast U.S. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(4), 2522–2531. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c06547