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Joseph M. RoopPacific Northwest National Laboratory |
Dr. Roop's professional career includes a broad range of experience in the analysis and modeling of economic and policy systems, both domestically and internationally. Although his experience is diverse, a common theme, the economics of industrial energy use, characterizes his research and project management activities over the past decade. He is currently engaged in a number of projects focused on efficient use of energy in industry.
One of Dr. Roop's major responsibilities currently is the development of an integrated, economy-wide method of tracking changes in energy intensity as part of the President's National Energy Policy. Another of his responsibilities is managing of a program "Analytical Support for Performance Measures", which analyzes technology impacts, and alternative policies that effect the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and the Industrial Program Office. He is also actively involved in a Laboratory-directed R&D project to model consumer responses to time-of-day or real-time prices for residential electricity. This Lab initiative has spawned a major program in DOE's Office of Energy Transmission and Distribution called GridWiseTM.
He has examined the penetration of new technology in both the steel and paper industries; has examined employment impacts of the penetration of new technologies across all industry; and has helped to examine the applicability of new technology to carbon reduction in the industrial sector. He was the chairman of the first Industrial Energy Efficiency Conference, jointly sponsored by the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy and DOE, and has recently calibrated the Jaccard/Roop Industrial Energy Model (ISTUM-I) to United States data. In the U.S., this model is known as the Industrial Technology Energy Modeling System (ITEMS).
He returned in late 1991 from a 22-month assignment with the International Energy Agency, located in Paris. While there he co-authored Energy Efficiency and the Environment, organized a Demand-Side Management Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the proceedings of the conference, and initiated a study that examines structural change in six countries, the United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Japan and Canada. This latter study puts special emphasis on trade with other developed countries and the implications of these changes for energy use and carbon emissions. Prior to his Paris assignment, Dr. Roop spent 17 months working in the Policy Office of the U.S. Department of Energy where he co-authored two DOE publications and assisted with the National Energy Strategy.
Prior to joining Battelle in March 1981, Dr. Roop worked with Michael K. Evans in the construction of a macroeconomic model for Dr. Evan's Economic Forecasting Service. He directed a variety of modeling and forecasting activities as a staff member at the Economic Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Prior to joining USDA, he assisted in a regional (12 state) agricultural research planning effort at the University of California.