Pralhad Burli, Ph.D. Economist, Modeling and Simulation Research Areas:
Bioenergy Technologies Biography:
Dr. Pralhad Burli is an Economist at Idaho National Laboratory. His specialties include environmental economics and policy, agriculture, renewable energy, analytics and modeling, data science, macroeconomic analysis and sovereign ratings.At INL, Pralhad’s research includes grower participation in biomass production, bioenergy supply chain analysis, and economic analysis for nuclear and hydropower systems. He earned his doctorate in environmental management from Montclair State University withhis dissertation titled Economic and Environmental Assessment of Advanced Biofuels: Adoption under uncertainty, farmer willingness and land use implications. He holds master’s degrees in economics from University of Southern California at Los Angeles and Universityof Mumbai, where he also earned his bachelor’s degree in commerce. Prior to INL, he has worked at Deloitte, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Bank, and Crisil Ltd. Education: Ph.D., Environmental Management, Montclair State University
M.A., Economics, University of Southern California
M.A., Economics, University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Commerce, University of Mumbai Publications: Publications: Ochuodho, T., J. Alavalapati, P. Lal, D. Agyeman, B. Wolde and P. Burli. (2019). Potential Economic Impacts of Allocating More Land for Bioenergy Biomass Production in Virginia. Forests, 10(2), 159.
Burli, P., P. Lal, B. Wolde, S.Jose, and S. Bardhan. (2018). Factors affecting willingness to cultivate switchgrass: Evidence from a farmer survey in Missouri. Energy Economics, 80, 20-29.
Iranah, P., P. Lal, B. Wolde, and P. Burli. (2018). Valuing visitor access to forested areas and exploring willingness to pay for forest conservation and restoration finance: The case of small island developing state of Mauritius. Journal of Environmental Management, 223, 868-877.
Wolde, B., P. Lal, P. Burli, P. Iranah, J. Munsell, J. Gan, and E. Taylor. (2018). Adapting extension and outreach content to audiences’ educational interests. Journal of Extension 56, no. 3.
Burli, P., E. Forgoston, P. Lal, L. Billings and B. Wolde. (2017). Adoption of switchgrass cultivation for biofuel under uncertainty: A discrete-time modeling approach. Biomass and Bioenergy, 105, 107-115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2017.06.012.
Ang, G, D. Rottgers and P. Burli. (2017). The Empirics of Enabling Investment and Innovation in Renewable Energy. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Environment Working Papers, No. 123, OECD Publishing, Paris. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/67d221b8-en.
Wolde, B., P. Lal, and P. Burli. (2017). Forestland owners’ willingness to consider multiple ways of supplying biomass simultaneously: implications for biofuel incentive policies. Energy Policy 105,183-190.
Lal, P., B. Wolde, M. Masozera, P. Burli, J. Alavalapati, A. Ranjan, J. Montambault, O. Banerjee, T. Ochuodho and R. Mugabo. (2017). Valuing visitor services and access to protected areas: The case of Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda. Tourism Management 61, 141-151.
Wolde, B., P. Lal, J. Alavalapati, P. Burli, and P. Iranah. (2016). Soil and water conservation using the socioeconomics, sustainability concerns, and policy preference for residual biomass harvest. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 71 (6), 476-483.
Burli, P., P. Lal, B. Wolde, and J. Alavalapati. (2016). Sustainability protocols and certification criteria for switchgrass-based bioenergy. BioResources, 11(3), 7102-7123.
Wolde, B., P. Lal, J. Gan, J. Alavalapati, E. Taylor, and P. Burli. (2016). Determinants of enrollment in public incentive programs for forest management and their effect on future programs for woody bioenergy: evidence from Virginia and Texas. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, ja. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2015-0335
Wolde, B., P. Lal, J. Alavalapati, P. Burli, and J. Munsell. (2016). Factors affecting forestland owners’ allocation of non-forested land to pine plantation for bioenergy in Virginia. Biomass and Bioenergy, 85, 69-75.
Lal, P., B. Wolde, J. Alavalapati, P. Burli, and J. Munsell. (2016) Forestland Owners’ Willingness to Plant Pine on Non-Forested Land for Woody Bioenergy in Virginia. Forest Policy and Economics, 73, 52-57.
Book Chapters:
Lal, P., A. Ranjan, B. Wolde, P. Burli and R. Blumberg. (2017). Bioenergy and Land Use Change: Economics and Policy Imperatives, In Z. Qin, U. Mishra, and A. Hastings (eds.). Bioenergy and Land Use, AGU Books. Lal, P., P. Burli and J. Alavalapati. (2015). Policy Mechanisms to Implement and Support Biomass and Biofuel Projects in United States, In S. Jose, and Bhaskar, T. (eds.). Biomass and Biofuels: Advanced Biorefineries for Sustainable Production and Distribution, CRC Press Boca Raton, FL 279-301.
Lal, P., E. Kebede, B. Wolde, P. Burli, J. Alavalapati, J. Gan and E. Taylor. (2015). Assessing Socioeconomic Impacts of Forest Biomass Based Biofuel Development on Rural Communities in the Southern United States. In J. Janick and A. Whipkey (eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh National New Crops Symposium New Crops: Bioenergy, Biomaterials, and Sustainability.
Parikh, A. and P. Burli. (2007). Livelihood Patterns and Food Security Situations: Some case studies from Maharashtra in Gender, Food Security and Rural Livelihoods, edited by Maithreyi Krishnaraj, Stree, Imprint Popular Prakashan.
Presentations: Don Schoffield, John Smart, Tim Pennington, Bhaskar Mitra, Anudeep Medam, ‘Strategies to Maintain Voltage on Long, Lightly Loaded Residential Feeders with Widespread Residential Level 2 Plug-in Electric Vehicle Charging’, 2021 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo, 2021. Burli, P. (2018). Clean Energy Transition: Improving Access and Acceptability, Annual Clean and Sustainable Energy Summit, Montclair State University, NJ, USA, November 26, 2018.
Burli, P. (2018). Switchgrass Adoption Under Uncertainty and Farmer Willingness. Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho USA.
Burli, P., E. Forgoston, P. Lal, L. Billings and B. Wolde. (2017). Switchgrass Adoption Under Uncertainty: A discrete-time modeling approach. Montclair State University Annual Research symposium, April 28, 2017.
Burli, P., E. Forgoston, P. Lal, L. Billings and B. Wolde. (2016). Switchgrass Adoption Under Uncertainty: A discrete-time modeling approach. Southern Economic Association 86th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, Nov 19-21, 2016.
Burli, P., L. Billings and E. Forgoston. (2015). Analyzing Cycling Dynamics in Stochastic Systems. Poster presentation. SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS15), Snowbird, Utah, USA, May 17-21, 2015.
Burli, P., B. Wolde, P. Lal, and J. Alavalapati. (2015). Ecosystem service changes resulting from growing and harvesting pine on non-forested land for woody bioenergy in Virginia. Poster presentation. Natural Capital Symposium, Stanford University, March 23-25, 2015.
Research Interests: Environmental Economics and Policy, Agricultural Economics, Renewable Energy, Integrated Energy Systems, Data Analysis and Modeling. |
