Greetings!
My name is
Jihyo Kim.

I am an associate professor at the Graduate School of Green Growth & Sustainability at KAIST.
My research interests lie at the intersection of economics, policy, and technology within the
energy and climate sectors. I welcome all who are interested in energy, technology, and policy!


Research Interests


· Energy demand, Energy efficiency, Energy Market, Energy Regualtion


· Techno-economic analysis of climate and energy technology


· Climate and Energy Policy


Education


· Ph.D. in Energy Systems Engineering, Seoul National University


· M.S. in Energy Systems Engineering, Seoul National University


· B.S. in Civil, Urban & Geosystem Engineering, Seoul National University


Career


· Senior Research Fellow, Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI), 2014~2024


· Adjunct Professor / Lecturer, Seoul National University, 2012 ~ 2014


· Visiting Scholar, Pennsylvania State University, 2013


 Key Research Projects


· Tackling the Energy Efficiency Gap: Evidence from Korea’s Energy Audit, World Bank, 2024, PI 


· ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ „๋ง, Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE), 2023~2024, Co-PI 


· ํƒ„์†Œ์ค‘๋ฆฝ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๋ณ„ ์ „๊ธฐํ™” ์˜ํ–ฅ ๋ถ„์„ ์šฉ์—ญ, Korea Power Exchange (KPX), 2023~2024, PI 


· ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์ŠคDR ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ž์› ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋ฐ ์‹ค์ฆ ์ด๊ด„, Korea Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP), 2022~2023, PI 


· ๊ณ„์‹œ๋ณ„ ์š”๊ธˆ์ œ ๋„์ž…์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ ์ถ”์ • ์—ฐ๊ตฌ, Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), 2022~2023, PI 


· ํƒ„์†Œ์ค‘๋ฆฝ ์ถ”์ง„์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ณต๋™์ฃผํƒ ๋‚œ๋ฐฉ์˜ ์ „๋ ฅํ™” ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ, Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI), 2022, PI 


· TOU ์š”๊ธˆ์ œ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์ฃผํƒ์šฉ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์˜ ์ „๊ธฐ์‚ฌ์šฉ ํŒจํ„ด ๋ถ„์„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ, Korea Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP), 2020~2011, PII 


· ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ํƒ„์†Œ์ค‘๋ฆฝ ์ถ”์ง„์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ, Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE), 2021~2022, Co-PI 


· ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์ „ํ™˜ ์ •์ฑ…์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฐ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ถ”์ง„๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ, Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI), 2021, PI 


· ์ˆ˜์š”์ž์›์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๋น„์šฉํŽธ์ต ๋ถ„์„์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ, Korea Power Exchange (KPX), 2018~2019, PI 


 Services


 · ์ œ11์ฐจ ์ „๊ธฐ๋ณธ WG ์œ„์›(2023~2024) 


· ํ•œ๊ตญ์ž์›๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™ํšŒ ๋ฒ•์ œ๋„์œ„์›์žฅ(2025~) 


· ์ œ6๊ธฐ ๋ฐฐ์ถœ๊ถŒํ• ๋‹น์œ„์›ํšŒ ์œ„์›(2024~) 


· ํ•œ๊ตญ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๊ณต๋‹จ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž๋ฌธ์œ„์›(2024~) 


· ์ž์›ํ™˜๊ฒฝ๊ฒฝ์ œ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ํŽธ์ง‘์œ„์›(2025~) 


· 2050 ํƒ„์†Œ์ค‘๋ฆฝ๋…น์ƒ‰์„ฑ์žฅ์œ„์›ํšŒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์ „ํ™˜๋ถ„๊ณผ ์ „๋ฌธ์œ„์› (2023~) 


Award


· ํ™˜๊ฒฝ๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€ ํ‘œ์ฐฝ (2022. 12) 


· ์‚ฐ์—…ํ†ต์ƒ๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€ํ‘œ์ฐฝ (2019. 12) 


· ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ธ๋ฌธ์‚ฌํšŒ์—ฐ๊ตฌํšŒ ์šฐ์ˆ˜์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ƒ (2021.5) 


· ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ธ๋ฌธ์‚ฌํšŒ์—ฐ๊ตฌํšŒ ์šฐ์ˆ˜์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ƒ (2016.5) 


· IAEE (International Association for Energy Economics), Student Paper Award (2013. 6) 


· ์ง€์‹๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€์ƒ (2009. 11) 


Greetings!
My name is Jihyo Kim.

I am an associate professor at the Graduate School of Green Growth & Sustainability at KAIST.
My research interests lie at the intersection of economics, policy, and technology within the
energy and climate sectors. I welcome all who are interested in energy, technology, and policy!


Research Interests


· Energy demand, Energy efficiency, Energy Market, Energy Regualtion


· Techno-economic analysis of climate and energy technology


· Climate and Energy Policy


Education


· Ph.D. in Energy Systems Engineering, Seoul National University


· M.S. in Energy Systems Engineering, Seoul National University


· B.S. in Civil, Urban & Geosystem Engineering, Seoul National University


Career


· Senior Research Fellow, Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI), 2014~2024


· Adjunct Professor / Lecturer, Seoul National University, 2012 ~ 2014


· Visiting Scholar, Pennsylvania State University, 2013


Key Research Projects


· Tackling the Energy Efficiency Gap: Evidence from Korea’s Energy Audit, World Bank, 2024, PI 


· ์žฅ๊ธฐ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ์ „๋ง, Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE), 2023~2024, Co-PI 


· ํƒ„์†Œ์ค‘๋ฆฝ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ๋ณ„ ์ „๊ธฐํ™” ์˜ํ–ฅ ๋ถ„์„ ์šฉ์—ญ, Korea Power Exchange (KPX), 2023~2024, PI 


· ํ”Œ๋Ÿฌ์ŠคDR ์‹ ๊ทœ ์ž์› ๊ธฐ์ˆ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœ ๋ฐ ์‹ค์ฆ ์ด๊ด„, Korea Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP), 2022~2023, PI 


· ๊ณ„์‹œ๋ณ„ ์š”๊ธˆ์ œ ๋„์ž…์˜ ์˜ํ–ฅ ์ถ”์ • ์—ฐ๊ตฌ, Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), 2022~2023, PI 


· ํƒ„์†Œ์ค‘๋ฆฝ ์ถ”์ง„์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ณต๋™์ฃผํƒ ๋‚œ๋ฐฉ์˜ ์ „๋ ฅํ™” ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ, Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI), 2022, PI 


· TOU ์š”๊ธˆ์ œ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅธ ์ฃผํƒ์šฉ ์†Œ๋น„์ž์˜ ์ „๊ธฐ์‚ฌ์šฉ ํŒจํ„ด ๋ถ„์„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ, Korea Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP), 2020~2011, PII 


· ์—๋„ˆ์ง€ ๋ถ€๋ฌธ ํƒ„์†Œ์ค‘๋ฆฝ ์ถ”์ง„์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ์ „๋žต ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ, Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE), 2021~2022, Co-PI 


· ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์ „ํ™˜ ์ •์ฑ…์˜ ์„ฑ๊ณผ ๋ฐ ํ–ฅํ›„ ์ถ”์ง„๋ฐฉํ–ฅ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ, Korea Energy Economics Institute (KEEI), 2021, PI 


· ์ˆ˜์š”์ž์›์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๋น„์šฉํŽธ์ต ๋ถ„์„์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ, Korea Power Exchange (KPX), 2018~2019, PI 


Services


· ์ œ11์ฐจ ์ „๊ธฐ๋ณธ WG ์œ„์›(2023~2024) 


· ํ•œ๊ตญ์ž์›๊ฒฝ์ œํ•™ํšŒ ๋ฒ•์ œ๋„์œ„์›์žฅ(2025~) 


· ์ œ6๊ธฐ ๋ฐฐ์ถœ๊ถŒํ• ๋‹น์œ„์›ํšŒ ์œ„์›(2024~) 


· ํ•œ๊ตญ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๊ณต๋‹จ ๊ฒฝ์˜์ž๋ฌธ์œ„์›(2024~) 


· ์ž์›ํ™˜๊ฒฝ๊ฒฝ์ œ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ํŽธ์ง‘์œ„์›(2025~) 


· 2050 ํƒ„์†Œ์ค‘๋ฆฝ๋…น์ƒ‰์„ฑ์žฅ์œ„์›ํšŒ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€์ „ํ™˜๋ถ„๊ณผ ์ „๋ฌธ์œ„์› (2023~) 


Award


· ํ™˜๊ฒฝ๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€ ํ‘œ์ฐฝ (2022. 12) 


· ์‚ฐ์—…ํ†ต์ƒ๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€ํ‘œ์ฐฝ (2019. 12) 


· ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ธ๋ฌธ์‚ฌํšŒ์—ฐ๊ตฌํšŒ ์šฐ์ˆ˜์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ƒ (2021.5) 


· ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ธ๋ฌธ์‚ฌํšŒ์—ฐ๊ตฌํšŒ ์šฐ์ˆ˜์—ฐ๊ตฌ์ƒ (2016.5) 


· IAEE (International Association for Energy Economics), Student Paper Award (2013. 6) 


· ์ง€์‹๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ถ€ ์žฅ๊ด€์ƒ (2009. 11)