Jack Morris works with Director Christopher Knittel to explore the effect residential heating electrification on the growth and shape electric load profiles and how that impacts investment decisions in new generation, storage, and transmission technologies. Jack also works with Deputy Director John Parsons to study how the costs and benefits of new interregional transmission are distributed among regional utilities.
Formerly, while a Master’s student in MIT’s Technology & Policy Program, Jack worked with Dharik Mallapragada to analyze how technological, economic, and regulatory factors impact coal and natural gas stranded asset risk in decarbonization. For his Master’s thesis, Jack developed a retrofit modeling capability for MIT’s capacity expansion model GenX in order to estimate the potential for retrofitted generating assets to lower costs, keep energy workers employed, ensure grid reliability, and enable a smooth energy transition.
Jack studied applied mathematics at William & Mary in his home state of Virginia, completed an S.M. in MIT’s Technology & Policy Program in 2022, and is now a PhD student in MIT’s Social & Engineering Systems program in the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.