Dr. Jared Garrison

Dr. Jared B. Garrison is a Senior Research Assistant at the Research Center for Energy Networks (Forschungsstelle Energienetze - FEN) at ETH Zürich. As part of the FEN team, he leads/executes academic and industrial research projects in the field of energy systems. In particular, his focus is on the modeling, simulation, and optimization of various aspects of the electricity system, including: electricity market operation, economic dispatch optimization, diffusion and use of distributed technologies, and the secure operation of the transmission network.

His doctoral thesis (2014) at the University of Texas at Austin in Mechanical Engineering as part of the Webber Energy Groupcall_made involved development of a unit commitment and dispatch model of the ERCOT electricity market to investigate the impacts of increasing wind penetration and the availability of large-scale compressed air energy storage. Prior to that, he completed his Masters and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2009 and 2007, respectively.

During his years at FEN, he has worked to develop modeling tools that merge the disciplines of electricity markets and electricity networks to investigate future possibilities for the Swiss and Central European region. Most recently, as a researcher and part-time project manager for the Nexus-ecall_made project, he has been active in the areas of coupling interdisciplinary energy system models and electricity system flexibility. Additionally, in this project his focus has been on the electricity market module, named eMark, that simulates a market-based clearing of electricity and reserves and includes both available transfer capacity (ATC)-based and flow-based (FB) market coupling mechanisms. Similarly, in the SCCER-FURIES Phase 2, he has expanded previous work from FURIES into the areas of market coupling mechanisms to investigate the potential economic benefits of future Swiss market coupling options. As a researcher and the project manager of the Assessing Future Electricity Markets (AFEMcall_made) team, a NRP 70 project, he contributed to creating market and transmission network models along with assessments for the geospatial potential of renewable resources in Switzerland and for the impact that large-scale integration of renewables will have on Swiss flexibility needs. Simultaneously, as part of the SCCER-FURIES Phase 1, he led the effort in WP2.3, Market Coupling, to combine technical aspects of transmission networks with economic aspects of market design and operation.