Jordan Kern

Ssembatya, H., Kern, J. D., Oikonomou, K., Voisin, N., Burleyson, C. D., & Akdemir, K. Z. (2024). Dual Impacts of Space Heating Electrification and Climate Change Increase Uncertainties in Peak Load Behavior and Grid Capacity Requirements in Texas. Earth's Future, 12(6). https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004443

Singh, S., Quinn, J., Kern, J., Cuppari, R., & Characklis, G. (2024). Exploring the benefits of integrated energy-water management in reducing economic and environmental tradeoffs. Environmental Research: Energy, 1(3), 035010. https://doi.org/10.1088/2753-3751/ad713d

Alvear, C., Haas, J., Palma-Behnke, R., Peer, R., Medina, J. P., & Kern, J. D. (2024). Green hydrogen exports in New Zealand and Chile can improve electricity supply security if configured as local energy insurance. Energy, 304, 131930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.131930

Prieto-Miranda, L., & Kern, J. D. (2024). High-resolution, open-source modeling of inland flooding impacts on the North Carolina bulk electric power grid. Environmental Research: Energy, 1(1), 015005. https://doi.org/10.1088/2753-3751/ad3558

Akdemir, K. Z., Mongird, K., Kern, J. D., Oikonomou, K., Voisin, N., Burleyson, C. D., … Vernon, C. (2025). Investigating the effects of cooperative transmission expansion planning on grid performance during heat waves with varying spatial scales. APPLIED ENERGY, 378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2024.124825

Kern, J. (2024, October). Utilities Are Planning for the Wrong Kind of Hurricane. Heatmap News.

Akdemir, K. Z., Oikonomou, K., Kern, J. D., Voisin, N., Ssembatya, H., & Qian, J. (2024). An open-source framework for balancing computational speed and fidelity in production cost models. Environmental Research: Energy, 1(1), 015003. https://doi.org/10.1088/2753-3751/ad1751

Kern, J. (2023, January). Blackouts experienced during low temps last month are bound to happen again. The Post and Courier.

Kern, J. (2023, March). Droughts and heat waves could worsen air pollution for vulnerable communities. L.A.Times.

Akdemir, K. Z., Robertson, B., Oikonomou, K., Kern, J., Voisin, N., Hanif, S., & Bhattacharya, S. (2023). Opportunities for wave energy in bulk power system operations. APPLIED ENERGY, 352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121845

Kern, J. (2023, January). Rolling blackouts can protect power grid from serious damage. CBS 17 WNCN.

Kern, J. (2023, August). Sturdier, more weatherproof. Improvements being made to power grid to prevent prolonged outages. ABC 11.

Zeighami, A., Kern, J., Yates, A. J., Weber, P., & Bruno, A. A. (2023). U.S. West Coast droughts and heat waves exacerbate pollution inequality and can evade emission control policies. Nature Communications, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37080-0

Akdemir, K. Z., Kern, J. D., & Lamontagne, J. (2022). Assessing risks for New England's wholesale electricity market from wind power losses during extreme winter storms. Energy, 251, 123886. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.123886

Denaro, S., Cuppari, R. I., Kern, J. D., Su, Y., & Characklis, G. W. (2022). Assessing the Bonneville Power Administration’s Financial Vulnerability to Hydrologic Variability. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 148(10). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001590

Kern, J. (2022, January). Climate change makes West Coast more susceptible to blackouts. The Hill.

Kern, J. (2022, February). Duke Energy aims to double renewable energy capacity by 2030. Renewable Energy World.

Kern, J. (2022, September). Extreme Weather is Weakening U.S. Hydropower and Stressing Energy Grids. TIME Magazine.

Koh, R., Kern, J., & Galelli, S. (2022). Hard-coupling water and power system models increases the complementarity of renewable energy sources. Applied Energy, 321, 119386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119386

Kern, J. (2022, January). How global warming could further mess up electric power on the West Coast. Jefferson Public Radio.

Kern, J. V. (2022, August). How the Western drought is pushing the power grid to the brink. Vox.

Kleiman, R. M., Characklis, G. W., & Kern, J. D. (2022). Managing weather- and market price-related financial risks in algal biofuel production. Renewable Energy, 200, 111–124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.09.104

Kern, J. (2022, July). Officials investigate after fire, explosion at Hoover Dam. AP. News.

Kern, J. (2022, May). Southwest megadrought pushes hydropower to the brink. E.&E.News EnergyWire.

Kern, J. (2022, January). West Coast power grid at mercy of climate change — and prices may soar, study finds. Sun Herald.

Kern, J. (2022, September). What the Western drought reveals about hydropower. E&E News EnergyWire.

Lucy, Z., & Kern, J. (2021). Analysis of fixed volume swaps for hedging financial risk at large-scale wind projects. ENERGY ECONOMICS, 103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105603

Kleiman, R. M., Characklis, G. W., Kern, J. D., & Gerlach, R. (2021). Characterizing weather-related biophysical and financial risks in algal biofuel production. Applied Energy, 294, 116960. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116960

Oikonomou, K., Tarroja, B., Kern, J., & Voisin, N. (2022). Core process representation in power system operational models: Gaps, challenges, and opportunities for multisector dynamics research. ENERGY, 238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2021.122049

Kern, J. (2021, July). Extreme Heat Could Also Mean Power and Water Shortages. Wired Magazine.

Kern, J. (2021, June). How Our Hydropower System Is Impacting The Drought Gripping The American West. National Public Radio.

Kern, J. (2021, October). Hydropower decline adds strain to power grids in drought. ABC News.

Kern, J. (2021, June). Less water means more gas’: how drought will test California’s stressed power grid. The Guardian (UK).

Kern, J. (2021, July). Not Just Wildfire: The Growing Ripple Effects Of More Extreme Heat And Drought. National Public Radio.

Kern, J. (2021, July). Plummeting reservoir levels could soon force Oroville hydropower offline. Los Angeles Times.

Su, Y., Kern, J., & Characklis, G. W. (2022). Retail Load Defection Impacts on a Major Electric Utility's Exposure to Weather Risk. JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, 148(3). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001531

Wessel, J., Kern, J. D., Voisin, N., Oikonomou, K., & Haas, J. (2022). Technology Pathways Could Help Drive the U.S. West Coast Grid's Exposure to Hydrometeorological Uncertainty. Earth's Future, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002187

Hill, J., Kern, J., Rupp, D. E., Voisin, N., & Characklis, G. (2021). The Effects of Climate Change on Interregional Electricity Market Dynamics on the U.S. West Coast. Earth's Future, 9(12). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002400

Kern, J. (2021, August). Water Supply Dropping in Western Reservoirs. The Weather Channel.

Kern, J. D., Su, Y., & Hill, J. (2020). A retrospective study of the 2012-2016 California drought and its impacts on the power sector. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 15(9). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9db1

Su, Y., Kern, J. D., Denaro, S., Hill, J., Reed, P., Sun, Y., … Characklis, G. W. (2020). An open source model for quantifying risks in bulk electric power systems from spatially and temporally correlated hydrometeorological processes. Environmental Modelling & Software, 126, 104667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104667

Su, Y., Kern, J. D., Reed, P. M., & Characklis, G. W. (2020). Compound hydrometeorological extremes across multiple timescales drive volatility in California electricity market prices and emissions. Applied Energy, 276, 115541. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115541

Kern, J. (2020, August). Decline in hydropower hampered by drought will impact utility costs. San Jose Mercury News.

Boyle, C. F. H., Haas, J., & Kern, J. D. (2021). Development of an irradiance-based weather derivative to hedge cloud risk for solar energy systems. Renewable Energy, 164, 1230–1243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2020.10.091

Chowdhury, A. F. M. K., Kern, J., Dang, T. D., & Galelli, S. (2020). PowNet: A Network-Constrained Unit Commitment/Economic Dispatch Model for
                        Large-Scale Power Systems Analysis. Journal of Open Research Software, 8(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.302

Wang, X., Virguez, E., Kern, J., Chen, L., Mei, Y., Patino-Echeverri, D., & Wang, H. (2019). Integrating wind, photovoltaic, and large hydropower during the reservoir refilling period. ENERGY CONVERSION AND MANAGEMENT, 198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.111778

Chowdhury, A. F. M. K., Kern, J., Dang, T. D., & Galelli, S. (2019). PowNet: a power systems analysis model for large-scale water-energy nexus studies (Version 1). Version 1. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1909.12529

Anindito, Y., Haas, J., Olivares, M., Nowak, W., & Kern, J. (2019). A new solution to mitigate hydropeaking? Batteries versus re-regulation reservoirs. JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION, 210, 477–489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.11.040

Kern, J. D., Gorelick, D. E., Characklis, G. W., & Macklin, C. M. (2019). Multiobjective Optimal Siting of Algal Biofuel Production with Municipal Wastewater Treatment in Watersheds with Nutrient Trading Markets. JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT, 145(2). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001018

Kern, J. D., & Characklis, G. W. (2017). Evaluating the Financial Vulnerability of a Major Electric Utility in the Southeastern U.S. to Drought under Climate Change and an Evolving Generation Mix. Environmental Science & Technology, 51(15), 8815–8823. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b05460

Su, Y., Kern, J. D., & Characklis, G. W. (2017). The impact of wind power growth and hydrological uncertainty on financial losses from oversupply events in hydropower-dominated systems. Applied Energy, 194, 172–183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.02.067

Hise, A. M., Characklis, G. W., Kern, J., Gerlach, R., Viamajala, S., Gardner, R. D., & Vadlamani, A. (2016). Evaluating the relative impacts of operational and financial factors on the competitiveness of an algal biofuel production facility. Bioresource Technology, 220, 271–281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.08.050

Kern, J. D., & Characklis, G. W. (2017). Low natural gas prices and the financial cost of ramp rate restrictions at hydroelectric dams. Energy Economics, 61, 340–350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2016.12.002

Kern, J. D., Hise, A. M., Characklis, G. W., Gerlach, R., Viamajala, S., & Gardner, R. D. (2017). Using life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis in a real options framework to inform the design of algal biofuel production facilities. Bioresource Technology, 225, 418–428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2016.11.116

Foster, B. T., Kern, J. D., & Characklis, G. W. (2015). Mitigating hydrologic financial risk in hydropower generation using index-based financial instruments. Water Resources and Economics, 10, 45–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wre.2015.04.001

Kern, J. D., Characklis, G. W., & Foster, B. T. (2015). Natural gas price uncertainty and the cost‐effectiveness of hedging against low hydropower revenues caused by drought. Water Resources Research, 51(4), 2412–2427. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014wr016533

Kern, J. D., Patino-Echeverri, D., & Characklis, G. W. (2014). An integrated reservoir-power system model for evaluating the impacts of wind integration on hydropower resources. Renewable Energy, 71, 553–562. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2014.06.014

Kern, J. (2014). Analysis of Potential Policy Changes on the Financial Viability of Residential Solar in North Carolina. UNC Chapel Hill Institute for the Environment.

Kern, J., & Record. Kern, J. (2014, December 14). Solar: A Sound Investment [Opinion editorial]. Greensboro News.

Kern, J. D., Patino-Echeverri, D., & Characklis, G. W. (2014). The Impacts of Wind Power Integration on Sub-Daily Variation in River Flows Downstream of Hydroelectric Dams. Environmental Science & Technology, 48(16), 9844–9851. https://doi.org/10.1021/es405437h

Kern, J. D., Characklis, G. W., Doyle, M. W., Blumsack, S., & Whisnant, R. B. (2012). Influence of Deregulated Electricity Markets on Hydropower Generation and Downstream Flow Regime. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 138(4), 342–355. https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0000183