Dr. Geoffrey
Rothwell
Geoffrey Rothwell is the Director of Honors
Programs for the Department of Economics and
is the Associate Director of the Public Policy
Program at Stanford University, Stanford,
California. He received his PhD in Economics
from the University of California, Berkeley,
in 1985, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the
California Institute of Technology from 1985
to 1986.
Teaching at Stanford since 1986, Dr. Rothwell
is widely published on the economics of
nuclear power, including nuclear fuel markets,
nuclear power plant construction, operating
costs, productivity, reliability, and
decommissioning. Dr. Rothwell has been the
lead economist on the US Department of
Energy's Generation IV Nuclear Energy Systems
Roadmap Committee and has chaired advisory
committees at the International Atomic Energy
Agency in Vienna. In addition, Dr. Rothwell
has advised private sector nuclear industry
principals and suppliers on matters related to
nuclear plant economics and investments.
Selected Publications:
1.
Electricity Economics: Regulation
and Deregulation, John Wiley and IEEE
Press (2003).
2.
“Profitability Risk Assessment at
Nuclear Power Plants Under Electricity
Deregulation,” The Impact of Competition,
Volume 1 (2000) Montgomery Research (www.UtilitiesProject.com).
3.
“Probability Distributions of Net
Present Values for U.S. Nuclear Power Plants”,
The Impact of Competition, Volume 2
(2001) Montgomery Research (www.UtilitiesProject.com).
4.
“The Risk of Early Retirement of U.S.
Nuclear Power Plants under Electricity
Deregulation and CO2 Emission
Reductions,” The Energy Journal 21
(2000): 63-87.
5.
Evaluating and Improving Nuclear
Power Plant Operating Performance,
International Atomic Energy Agency, Committee
on Methodology for Nuclear Power Plant
Performance and Statistical Analysis, Vienna:
IAEA-TECDOC-1098 (1999).
6.
“Organizational Structure and Expected
Output at Nuclear Power Plants,” The Review
of Economics and Statistics 78 (1996):
482-488.
7.
“Utilization and Service:
Decomposing Nuclear Reactor Capacity Factors,”
Resources and Energy 12 (1990): 215-229.
8.
“Market Coordination in the Uranium
Oxide Industry,” Antitrust Bulletin
(1980): 233-68.
