Jim Williams
University of California at Berkeley and Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc.

Jim Williams is a senior consultant at Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc. of San Francisco, and a lecturer in U.C. Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group, where he teaches quantitative methods in environmental science. He received his Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1995, and has a background in physics, electrical engineering, China studies, and history of science. Jim’s research concerns the political economy of energy in Asia and the U.S. In his consulting work in California’s electric power sector, Jim specializes in rate design, energy modeling, transmission pricing, and demand response. In past lives, he has led an NGO team that installed a wind power system in a North Korean village, directed the Native American Renewable Energy Education Project, worked as an oil exploration field engineer, and founded a college clean energy organization. Publications include “Electricity Reform in Developing Countries: A Reappraisal,” Energy – the International Journal (2006); "The Political Economy of Electricity Reform in Asia," Pacific Affairs 77:3 (2004); “Fuel and Famine: Rural Energy Crisis in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea,” Asian Perspective, 26:1 (2002); and “Fang Lizhi's Big Bang: A Physicist and the State in China,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 30:1 (1999).