Sustainable Energy Systems and Policy Harrison Fell
Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Harrison Fell joined NC State in August 2016 as a Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program cluster hire in Sustainable Energy Systems and Policy. Harrison, an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, conducts research in the fields of environmental, energy, and natural resources economics. His recent work focuses on issues related to renewable energy deployment and integration, policy design elements for emissions regulation, and electricity market regulations.
Harrison obtained bachelor’s degrees in economics and civil engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington. Before coming to NC State, Harrison was a Fellow at Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C.-based think-tank specializing in environmental and natural resources policy analysis. He also served as an assistant professor in the Division of Economics and Business at the Colorado School of Mines, where he worked with multiple graduate students in the mineral and energy economics Master of Science and Ph.D. programs. His research has been published in a number of top environmental and energy economics field journals, as well as in general interest economics journals.
