New appointment, contract, publication for Tesfatsion

Dr. Leigh TesfatsionLeigh Tesfatsion, emeritus professor, has been appointed Research Professor by Iowa State University, effective March 1, 2018.

She is also the Principal Investigator for a new contract from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), with start date March 19, 2018, providing $100,000 additional funding for the completion of additional tasks under an ISU/PNNL collaborative project titled "Development of an Integrated Transmission and Distribution Test System to Evaluate Transactive Energy Systems." The Co-Principal Investigator on this new contract is Dr. Zhaoyu Wang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, ISU.

In addition, Tesfatsion has a new publication:
Leigh Tesfatsion (2018), “Electric Power Markets in Transition: Agent-Based Modeling Tools for Transactive Energy Support.” In Hommes, C., LeBaron, B., Eds. Handbook of Computational Economics 4: Heterogeneous Agent Models. Handbooks in Economics Series, North Holland:Amsterdam, the Netherlands. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574002118300042