carnegie mellon electricity industry center ceic founded in august 2001 after competitive proposals long term core funds the sloan foundation & epri project funding from government co directors lester lave granger morgan executive director jay apt 17 faculty 23 ph d students business engineering computer science schools strategic interdisciplinary examination of s problems and opportunities current research areas market structure performance distributed energy resources advanced generation transmission technologies environmental sustainability issues reliability security supported by alfred p tennessee valley authority electric power institute us office naval national mcdermott technology protection agency abb department alliant rural electrical cooperative association pennsylvania development new york state design to control monopoly modeling investment incentives deregulated markets risk management designing complete all services demand estimation autonomous agents that learn valuation ancillary decision making economics der regulatory institutional for evolution air quality life cycle analysis