Peter C. Balash, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Strategic Systems Analysis and Engineering, National Energy Technology Laboratory
United States Department of Energy
Dr. Balash has followed energy markets, energy security, and technology issues since 2002, focusing on market and technology interactions across the entire energy value chain. Recent activities include studying reliability and resilience of the electricity system. Current duties include managing an interdisciplinary team of engineers, economists, and scientists that performs economic, systems, optimization, regulatory, environmental life cycle, and infrastructure reliability analyses to inform strategic planning. In the recent past he has directed studies of the economic impacts of energy and climate change mitigation policy and assessed energy security options in a carbon-constrained world, inclusive of fossil-energy based solutions. He serves in the leadership of the DOE Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium. For 2021, he is President-Elect of the U.S. Association for Energy Economics. Previously Dr. Balash worked for the Internal Revenue Service in Houston, TX, engaged in multinational corporate audits and transfer pricing issues. Dr. Balash earned his doctorate in economics in 1992 from the University of Texas at Austin. He received a bachelor's in economics from Xavier University, Cincinnati, in 1987.