Welcome to the MSD Working Group on Energy Systems
About
Energy infrastructure, such as liquid fuels, natural gas, and electric power, are critical to national security and economic productivity. These systems are also beset by challenges on multiple fronts: improving energy resilience; new technologies that introduce new/greater uncertainties into both supply and demand; regional differences in market structures that respond differently during periods of extreme scarcity; dependence on upstream, international supply chains for critical materials and manufactured components; and growing security threats from physical and cyber-attacks. This working group is focused on exploring one key question: how can multi-sector system dynamics modeling help U.S. energy, a vast, interconnected engineered and economic system of systems, identify emerging vulnerabilities and develop long term planning strategies to achieve continued economic growth and public safety?
Leadership
Co-Chair
Wei Peng
Princeton University
Co-chair
Jordan Kern
North Carolina State University
Get Involved
The MSD-ES Working Group actively seeks new members from both within and outside the current MSD Community of Practice. The opportunity exists to join a growing team that will help shape the MSD CoP over the next years, enabling it to fill a key ‘translational gap’ identified in MSD Vision Report 2030.
If you are a Multi Sector Dynamics researcher (or are interested in engaging more with the MSD community going forward) and are passionate about achieving societal impact through science and learning from practitioners/decisionmakers to further improve your science, then please feel free to reach out to us via the following form. Similarly, if you are a practitioner or decisionmaker (e.g. from a US federal, state, or local agency; an international organization; or an expert from an NGO, think-tank, or implementing institution) who may be interested in learning more about MSD research, please also feel free to connect with us.
