Carl Linvill is a principal with RAP’s U.S. team and is based in Davis, CA. With his expertise in power sector markets, procurement and planning, he leads RAP's work on renewable energy integration and transmission planning in the Western United States. Linvill focuses on distributed generation valuation and tariffs, as well as regional reliability solutions.
Prior to joining RAP, Carl Linvill served as a public utilities commissioner in Nevada, the economic and energy advisor to Nevada Governor Kenny Guinn, an academic economist at the Sam Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, and director of integrated energy analysis and planning with Aspen Environmental Group. More recent activities include serving as chairman of the Modeling Data Task Force for the Scenario Planning Steering Group at the Western Electric Coordinating Council, as principal author of Western Grid 2050 for the Western Grid Group, and as a member of the California Energy Commission Demand Forecast Expert Panel. While an academic, he presented microeconomic theory, game theory and managerial economics, and produced peer reviewed publications in the Journal of Regulatory Economics, the European Journal of Operational Research, the Journal of Productivity Analysis, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, and the Journal of Comparative Economics.
Carl Linvill received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics from the University of California at Davis, and his doctorate in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
How Carl Linvill is Energizing Change
Designing a 24/7 Carbon-Free Electricity Transition Tariff
In a webinar panel discussion, presenters discussed the fundamentals of designing an effective 24/7 carbon-free electricity transition… Read More +
24/7 Carbon-Free Electricity Transition Tariffs: A Regulatory Tool for Accelerating Decarbonization [Technical paper]
(A summary version of this paper is also available.) An increasing number of national, state and… Read More +
