Dalia Patino-Echeverri

Dalia Patino-Echeverri is a Professor at Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, specializing in public policy design for energy systems. Her research focuses on managing uncertainties in government actions, electricity market dynamics, renewable integration, and environmental sustainability.

• Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University (2006)
• Current projects include GRACE EMS (ARPA-E funded), RTOGov (Sloan Foundation), and geothermal well repurposing studies.

Her work spans economic modeling of electricity generation, policy analysis for decarbonization, and life cycle assessments of energy systems. She examines how uncertainties in fuel prices, technology, and regulations affect power sector investments and environmental outcomes.

Recent publications highlight flexible load integration (2025), renewable energy trilemmas (2024), and techno-economic assessments for geothermal and solar-wind-hydro clustering strategies (2019–2024). Her research addresses grid interconnection bottlenecks, residential demand projections in developing countries, and food-energy sustainability links.

She leads the GRACE Lab, collaborating with institutions like Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the National Science Foundation. Her team investigates cost-effective pathways for renewable energy deployment, carbon capture technologies, and policy frameworks for equitable energy transitions.