Areas of Expertise:

Biofuels, Carbon Capture and Sequestration, Clean Energy, Coal, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Energy Storage, Environment, Environmental Policy, Geothermal, GHGs, Hydraulic Fracturing, Innovation, Natural Gas, Power Sector, R&D, Regulation, Renewables, Smart Grid, Solar

Additional Areas of Expertise:

Energy Policy

Aimee Curtright is a Senior Physical Scientist and an Associate Research Department Director for the Engineering and Applied Sciences Department at RAND Corporation. Her research focuses on energy policy and technology assessment, spanning topics from solar to oil sands to biomass to hydraulic fracturing. Her work often explores the tradeoffs between energy technology performance, costs, and social and environmental impacts. She is based in RAND’s Pittsburgh office. She received her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and her B.S. in chemistry from University of Miami.

Recent Comments by Aimee Curtright

• "It is not likely that we’ll see large-scale utilization of biomass for utility-scale power production in the U.S., for many of the reasons that others"
  What Role Can Biomass Play in the EPA’s Clean Power Plan?