McCone Building
Email Address
jim.williams@miis.edu
Phone Number
(831) 647-6426
Language(s)
中文
Jim Williams
Associate Professor
Jim Williams has worked in the energy and climate change field for more than 20 years, as an academic researcher, teacher, consultant, and practitioner. Before joining our faculty, he worked at Energy and Environmental Economics (E3) where he was lead analyst on the E3 team modeling implementation of California’s Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) for California state agencies. Jim is a specialist in regulatory policy and clean energy technologies for electric power systems, with experience in carbon market design, renewable generation and transmission, energy efficiency and demand response, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, energy storage, and distribution automation.
During the 2000-2001 California electricity crisis, Professor Williams managed the electrical demand reduction program for the 38-campus University of California-California State University system. From 1997-2000, he managed the North Korea energy program of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, leading an engineering team that electrified a North Korean village using wind energy. Previously, he created and directed the Native American Renewable Energy Education Project, a program of the US Department of Energy to facilitate sustainable energy development for American Indian tribes.
He received his MS and PhD from UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group, where his dissertation topic was the history of science policy in China during the Mao era. Dr. Willliams continues to serve as a part-time lecturer at UC Berkeley, where he has taught and advised graduate students since 1995. He received his BS in Physics from Washington and Lee University. Professor Williams has organized and led numerous academic conferences and workshops, including an international conference on the US, China, and Climate Change at UC Berkeley in 2006. He has also served as guest editor for special issues of Chinese Studies in Philosophy, History of the Physical and Biological Sciences, and Pacific Affairs.
Dr. William's current academic research focuses on US and international climate change policy. He continues to research the political economy of energy markets and regulation in developing countries, including China. Other topics include unification of the electricity grids of Northeast Asia and the energy economy of North Korea.
Expertise
Interdisciplinary energy and environmental analysis, political economy of energy, science and technology policy, energy resources and policy, climate change policy, electric power systems, engineering-economic modeling, Asian energy
Education
PhD and MS, Energy and Resources, UC Berkeley. BS, Physics, Washington and Lee University.
Publications
Mahone. A., C.K. Woo, J.H. Williams, I. Horowitz (2009), Renewable portfolio standards and cost-effective energy-efficiency investment, Energy Policy, 37, 774-777.
Williams, J.H. and F. Kahrl (2008), Electricity reform and sustainable development in China, Environmental Research Letters, 3, 044009 1-14.
Von Hippel, D., P. Hayes, J.H.Williams, C. Greacen, M. Sagrillo, and T. Savage, “International Energy Assistance Needs and Options for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK),” Energy Policy, 36 (2008) 541–552.
Orans, R., S. Price, J.H. Williams, and C.K. Woo, “A Northern California-British Columbia Partnership for Renewable Energy,” Energy Policy, 35: 8 (2007) 3979-3983.
Williams, J.H. and R. Ghanadan, “Electricity Reform in Developing and Transition Countries: A Reappraisal,” Energy 31:6-7 (2006) 815-844.
Dubash, N. and J.H. Williams, “The Political Economy of Electricity Liberalization.” In John Byrne et al., eds., Transforming Power: Energy as a Social Project, Energy and Environmental Policy Series, Vol. 9, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers (2006).
Williams, J.H. and N. Dubash, “Asian Electricity Reform in Historical Perspective,” Pacific Affairs 77:3 (2004) 411-436.
Williams, J.H. and N. Dubash, “The Political Economy of Electricity Reform in Asia: Introduction to Pacific Affairs Special Issue,” Pacific Affairs, 77:3 (2004) 403-410.
Williams, J.H., and D. Von Hippel. “Fuel and Famine: Rural Energy Crisis in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,” Asian Perspective, 26 (2002) 111-140.
Von Hippel, D. and J.H. Williams, “Case Study of a Rural Energy Survey in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,” Asian Perspective, 26 (2002) 77-109.
Williams, J.H. "Wind Power in Inner Mongolia." In Bert Metz et al., eds., Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer, A Special Report of IPCC Working Group 3, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2000).
Williams, J.H. "Fang Lizhi's Big Bang: A Physicist and the State in China," Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 30 (Winter 1999) 49-88.
Williams, J.H. "Fang Lizhi's Expanding Universe." China Quarterly, 123 (1990), 459-484.
Harte, J. and J.H. Williams. "Arctic Aerosol and Arctic Climate," Journal of Climatic Change, 13 (October 1988).
Edited Volumes
Williams, J.H. and N. Dubash, eds., “The Political Economy of Electricity Reform in Asia,” special issue of Pacific Affairs, 77:3 (2004).
Carson, C., Pollack, E., Westwick, P. and Williams, J.H., eds., “Physicists in the Post-War Political Arena,” special issue of Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 30:1 (1999).
Williams, J.H., editor and translator, Bringing Down the Great Wall: Writings on Science, Culture, and Democracy in China, New York: A.A.Knopf (1991).
Williams, J.H., editor and translator, “Astrophysics and Ideology in People’s China,” special issue of Chinese Studies in Philosophy, 19:4.
Magazine Articles
Kammen, D.M. and J.H. Williams, “Plug and Go: Hybrid Electric Cars Drive Away Oil Imports,” California, 117:5 (September/October 2006) 22.
Williams, J.H., P. Hayes, D. Von Hippel, C. Greacen, M. Sagrillo. "The Wind Farm in the Cabbage Patch," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 55 (May/June 1999) 40-48.
Williams, J.H., J. Elliott, T. Frank. “Good Energy: Native Americans Lead the Way,” Winds of Change, 12 (Summer 1997) 14-23.
Williams, J.H. et al. "Tribal College Instructors Learn About Renewable Energy," Tribal College Journal, 8:4 (Spring 1997).
Reports and Manuals
B. Horii, A. Mahone, J. Moore, A. Olson, R. Orans, S. Price, M. Smart, J.H. Williams, J.H., CPUC/CEC Greenhouse Gas Modeling Results and Documentation, July 2008.
Price, S., B. Horii, J. Moore, J.H. Williams, National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency: Guidebook to Incorporating Energy Efficiency in Planning, prepared for U.S. DOE and U.S. EPA, 2008.
Williams, J.H., S. Price, J. Moore, W. Morrow, Draft Methodology for the Evaluation of the Market Transformation Effects of the Self-Generation Incentive Program, prepared for California Public Utilities Commission, May 2007.
Price, S., Dugan, R., E. Kollman, M. McGranahan, J. Moore, J.H. Williams, Value of Distribution Automation Applications, report prepared for California Energy Commission, Contract 500-01-025, October 2006.
Price, S., E. Kollman, J. Moore, J.H. Williams, Energy Storage Valuation Tool: Modeling Stakeholder Costs and Benefits, software and report developed for Electric Power Research Institute, September 2006.
Williams, J.H., R. Orans, S. Price, B. Horii, C.K. Woo, Demand Response Rate and Program Design, Phase I, report prepared for California Energy Commission, Demand Response Research Center, DRRC-RON-02, January 2006.
Williams, J.H., S. Price, C.K. Woo, A Survey of Time of Use Pricing and Demand Response Programs, report prepared for U.S. EPA, November 2005.
Von Hippel, D., J.H. Williams, and S. Eaton, Multi-Dimensional Issues in International Electric Power Grid Interconnections, report prepared for U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, New York: UN/DESA, June 2005.
Williams, J.H., “Our Energy Future: Between Iraq and a Hard Place - A Briefing Paper on Energy,” Nautilus Institute working paper, November 2003.
Williams, J.H., “Our Burning Path: Action or Denial on Global Warming? – A Briefing Paper on Climate,” Nautilus Institute working paper, October 2003.
Williams, J.H. “International Best Practices for Assessing and Reducing the Environmental Impacts of High-Voltage Transmission Lines,” Third Workshop on Power Grid Interconnection in Northeast Asia, Vladivostok, Russia (September 2003).
Von Hippel, D. and J.H. Williams, “Environmental Issues for Regional Power Systems in Northeast Asia,” Third Workshop on Power Grid Interconnection in Northeast Asia, Vladivostok, Russia, (September 2003).
UC/CSU Peak Load Reduction Program, The University of California and The California State University Summer 2001 Electricity Peak Load Reduction Plan, CEC Contract No. 400-00-019 (June 2001).
UC/CSU Peak Load Reduction Program, Photovoltaics For UC And CSU Peak Demand Reduction: A Brief Guide, CEC Contract No. 400-00-019 (July 2001).
Williams, J.H., D. Von Hippel, and Peter Hayes, “Fuel and Famine: Rural Energy Crisis in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,” IGCC Policy Paper No. 46, San Diego: Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (2000).
Busch, J.F., J. Elliott, T. Frank, V. Gratton, T. Starrs, and Williams, J.H. Native Power: A Handbook on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency for Native American Communities. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, LBNL-41004 (January 1998).