The existing infrastructures for the electric power and transportation sectors, which collectively accounted for ~69% of energy-related CO₂ emissions for the U.S. in 2019, evolved nearly independently over the past century and entail significant under-utilization of capital-intensive assets (e.g. personal automobiles, distribution networks, peaking power plants). With recent advances in digitization and modular technologies for energy generation, conversion and storage, there is an opportunity to design and operate energy infrastructure to serve multiple end uses in an integrated manner. An integrated vision must not only consider cost savings and emissions impacts from sharing infrastructure but also overall resiliency to demand or supply disruptions caused by climate change or other risks.In our research, we develop and apply mathematical models to study planning and operation of integrated energy systems and resulting technology, market and policy implications. We draw upon insights developed from the literature on power system planning and operations and extend it to study broader energy system, which includes dynamic interactions between the electric grid and other end-use sectors as well as roles for other energy vectors like hydrogen.

Relevant Past Projects

• Exploring Decarbonization Pathways via Direct and Indirect Use of Electricity for Coupled Power, Transport, and Industrial Sectors
• Grid impacts of highway electric vehicle charging and role for mitigation via energy storage
• Economic and environmental analysis of H2-based transportation supply chain and role for liquid organic hydrogen carriers
• System impacts of power sector decarbonization – wind, solar integration and the role for storage
• Investment Planning under Uncertainty and its Application to Bulk Power System Decarbonization

Relevant Ongoing Projects (as of June 2022)

• Optimal Energy Distribution Infrastructure for EV Fast-charging and Hydrogen Stations (OP-EVH2)
• High-Resolution Analytics for Cost-Effective and Equitable Electrification of Urban Transportation Fleets
• Multi-vector energy systems analysis for low-carbon power and transportation
• Macro-energy system modeling for net-zero emissions analysis
• Electricity-H2-CO2 infrastructure interactions in a deeply decarbonized energy system

Select Publications

• Yarlagadda, B., Smith, S.J., Mignone, B.K., Mallapragada, D., Randles, C.A. and Sampedro, J., 2022. Climate and air pollution implications of potential energy infrastructure and policy measures in India. Energy and Climate Change, 3, p.100067. (link)
• He, G., Mallapragada, D.S., Bose, A., Heuberger, C.F. and Gençer, E., 2021. Hydrogen supply chain planning with flexible transmission and storage scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy,12(3),  pp. 1730 - 1740 (link)
• He, G., Mallapragada, D.S., Bose, A., Heuberger, C.F. and Gençer, E., 2021.Sector coupling via hydrogen to lower the cost of energy system decarbonization. Energy & Environmental Science, 14, 4635-4646. (link)
• Mowry, A.M. and Mallapragada, D.S., 2021. Grid impacts of highway electric vehicle charging and role for mitigation via energy storage. Energy Policy, 157, p.112508 (link)
• Lara, C.L., Mallapragada, D.S., Papageorgiou, D.J., Venkatesh, A. and Grossmann, I.E., 2018. Deterministic electric power infrastructure planning: Mixed-integer programming model and nested decomposition algorithm. European Journal of Operational Research, 271(3), pp.1037-1054 (link)