Teaching & Advisory

Teaching, national advisory service, and policy work that bridges academic research and regulatory practice.

Teaching

Energy Economics, M.S. in Energy and Sustainability, Northwestern University (co-taught with Mark Witte), 2020–present
Energy Economics, Purdue University
Environmental Management and Sustainability; Sustainability Lab, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Monopoly, Competition, and Public Policy; Environmental and Natural Resource Economics; History of Economic Thought; Introduction to Microeconomics; Western Economic History — Northwestern University
Energy Economics; History of Economic Thought — Purdue University
Freshman seminars: Economics of Innovation; Complexity and Economics; Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment; Economics of Energy Markets — Northwestern University

Member, Resource-secure Energy Flexibility (REFLEX) Working Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · 2026–present
Committee Member, Forum on Informed Investment, Technology, and Policy Pathways for the Electricity System, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine · 2025–2026
Emerita Member, GridWise Architecture Council, U.S. Department of Energy (member 2005–2010) · 2010–present

Past advisory roles

Member, Electricity Advisory Committee, U.S. Department of Energy · 2021–2025
Leader, Transactions and Markets Sub-Task, Global Observatory on P2P and Transactive Energy, International Energy Agency · 2019–2023
Expert Advisory Council, Americans for a Clean Energy Grid · 2018–2023
Member, Smart Grid Advisory Committee, National Institute of Standards & Technology · 2017–2019

Kiesling, Lynne (lead author), et al. 2025. Innovating Future Power Systems: From Vision to Action. Electricity Technology, Regulation, and Market Design Working Group, American Enterprise Institute, February.
Kiesling, Lynne, and Michael Giberson. 2020. Electric Competition in Texas: A Successful Model to Guide the Future. Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation, July.
Kiesling, Lynne. 2020. Innovation and Decentralized Energy Markets: Technologies and Institutions for a Clean and Prosperous Energy Future. Center for Growth and Opportunity, Utah State University, February.
Kiesling, Lynne. 2016. Alternatives to Net Metering: Grid Services Rate Design for Decentralized Electricity Markets. R Street Institute Policy Paper, February.
Kiesling, Lynne. 2015. Power Up: The Framework for a New Era of UK Energy Distribution. Adam Smith Institute Policy Paper, October.
Kiesling, Lynne. 2015. A Prosperous and Cleaner Future: Markets, Innovation, and Electricity Distribution for the 21st Century. Conservation Leadership Council Policy Paper, June.
Kiesling, Lynne, and Vernon L. Smith. 2005. A Market-Based Model for ISO-Sponsored Demand Response Programs. Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets–Distributed Energy Financial Group Study.

Kiesling, Lynne, and Vernon Smith. 2021. “How Texas Electricity Regulators Can Use Markets to Make the Grid More Reliable.” Dallas Morning News, February 28.
Giberson, Michael, and Lynne Kiesling. 2017. “The Need for Electricity Retail Market Reforms.” Regulation 40(3–4): 34–40.
Kiesling, Lynne. 2009. “Electric Intelligence: Establishing a Smart Grid Requires Regulatory Reform, Not Subsidies.” Reason, July.
Kiesling, Lynne, and Vernon L. Smith. 2003. “Socket to California: Preventing Another Energy Crisis.” Wall Street Journal, October 28.
Kiesling, Lynne, and Vernon L. Smith. 2003. “Demand, Not Supply.” Wall Street Journal, August 20.

Owner and editor of Knowledge Problem (since 2002).

Senior fellow: R Street Institute (2015–present); Fraser Institute (2013–present); Reason Foundation (2003–present). Member, Academic Advisory Council, Institute of Economic Affairs, UK (2003–present).
Peer review: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2023); Engineering Research Center site visits, National Science Foundation (2021–present); grant proposals for NSF, EPA, Sloan Foundation, and Templeton Foundation; manuscripts for University of Chicago Press, Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Harvard University Press.
Journal referee: PNAS-Nexus, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Regulatory Economics, American Law and Economics Review, Southern Economic Journal, Public Choice, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Industrial Economics, Energy Journal, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Utility Economics, Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy, European Economic Review, Review of Austrian Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Institutional Economics, and others.