Bio

Lane D. Smith is a postdoctoral scholar working with the Climate and Energy Policy Program at Stanford University. His research interests include energy policy, electricity rate design, energy affordability, and macro-energy systems (with a particular focus on the electric grid). Lane holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington (2024 and 2019, respectively) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Denver (2018).

Professional Education

  • Ph.D., University of Washington, Electrical Engineering (2024)
  • M.S., University of Washington, Electrical Engineering (2019)
  • B.S., University of Denver, Electrical Engineering (2018)

Stanford Advisors

Contact

  • Academic
    ldsmith@stanford.edu
    University - Scholar Department: Department of Energy Science and Engineering Position: Postdoctoral Scholar

Additional Info

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All Publications

  • Effects of Net Metering Policies on Distributed Energy Resource Valuation and Operation 2025 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) Smith, L. D., Kirschen, D. S. 2025

    View details for DOI 10.1109/PESGM52009.2025.11225671

  • Improving Electricity Bill Affordability for Low-Income Customers Using the California Climate Credit Smith, L. D., Macomber, E., Mastrandrea, M., Wara, M. Climate & Energy Policy Program, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University. Stanford, CA. 2025
  • Reallocating the Residential California Climate Credit to Low-Income Customers Smith, L. D., Mastrandrea, M., Wara, M. Climate & Energy Policy Program, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University. Stanford, CA. 2024
  • Should Storage-Centric Tariffs be Extended to Commercial Flexible Demand? 2022 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) Smith, L. D., Kirschen, D. S. 2022

    View details for DOI 10.1109/PESGM48719.2022.9916738

  • How much demand flexibility could have spared Texas from the 2021 outage? Advances in Applied Energy Wu, D., Zheng, X., Menati, A., Smith, L., Xia, B., Xu, Y., Singh, C., Xie, L. 2022; 7

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.adapen.2022.100106

  • A 2030 United States Macro Grid: Unlocking Geographical Diversity to Accomplish Clean Energy Goals Xu, Y., Olsen, D., Xia, B., Livengood, D., Hunt, V., Li, Y., Smith, L. Breakthrough Energy Sciences. Seattle, WA. 2021
  • Impacts of Time-of-Use Rate Changes on the Electricity Bills of Commercial Consumers 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM) Smith, L. D., Kirschen, D. S. 2021

    View details for DOI 10.1109/PESGM46819.2021.9638125

  • Remote Assessment of Battery Degradation-Related Service Interruptions in an Energy Kiosk 2020 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Smith, L. D., Louie, H., Szablya, S., Goldsmith, D. 2020

    View details for DOI 10.1109/GHTC46280.2020.9342919

  • Coordination of Behind-the-Meter Energy Storage and Building Loads: Optimization with Deep Learning Model Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems Chen, Y., Chandan, V., Huang, Y., Alam, M., Ahmed, O., Smith, L. 2019

    View details for DOI 10.1145/3307772.3331025

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