Ramteen Sioshansi
Professor, Engineering and Public Policy
Courtesy Appointment, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ramteen Sioshansi is a professor in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He also serves as the director of Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center and is a faculty affiliate of Carnegie Mellon Scott Institute for Energy Innovation.
Prior to joining CMU, Sioshansi was a professor in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, founding director of the EmPOWERment National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Traineeship (NRT) Program, and an associate fellow in the Center for Automotive Research at The Ohio State University.
His research focuses on the integration of advanced energy technologies, including renewable energy, energy storage, and electric transportation, into energy systems. He works also in energy policy and electricity-market design, especially as they pertain to advanced energy technologies. He is an IEEE Fellow and served three two-year terms on the Electricity Advisory Committee, a federal advisory committee to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, and chaired its Energy Storage (Technologies) Subcommittee.
Finding the Smoothest Path to a Green Energy Transition
Research Interests
Media mentions
CNET
Sioshansi talks about electricity rates in Texas
EPP’s Ramteen Sioshansi talks to CNET about electricity rates in Texas. “I think the biggest advantage in Texas is you can find some fairly exotic price structures that you just would not have found pre-restructuring [pre-deregulation],” he says.
CMU Engineering
Modeling energy storage for a decarbonized future
Recent study reviews challenges associated with electricity-system planning and suggests how systems could balance eliminating carbon emissions, affordability, and system reliability.