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This report is the product of almost 6 months of research by ACEEE staff, supported by analysts at Synapse Energy Economics, Inc..

Lest you have doubts that renewable energy won't be able to take over from fossil fuels: A new report from NRDC looks at future energy usage in Michigan and comes to the conclusion that through a combination of renewable energy and energy efficiency improvements, the state can easily meet future power needs: Energy Efficiency Could Save State $ 3 Billion by 2030 The report, A Green Energy Alternative for Michigan, was written by Synapse Energy Economic for NRDC and shows that simply making energy efficiency improvements to offset fossil fuel usage the state could save $ 3 billion over the next 20 years.

Synapse Energy Generation and Capacity Appendix A Comparison of Generation Estimates describes the generation (TWh) estimates and Synapse Energy Generation and Capacity Appendix A Comparison of Capacity (MW) Estimates describes the (MW) estimates for fourteen different source - type categories.

The basis of this claim is the Synapse Energy Economics report prepared for the Riverkeeper and Natural Resources Defense Council entitled «Replacement Energy and Capacity Resources for the Indian Point Energy Center Under New York Clean Energy Standard (CES)» that claims that replacing Indian Point can be done with a combination of renewables and energy efficiency.

In a 2012 study, Elizabeth A. Stanton, an environmental economist at Synapse Energy Economics, noted that projections by the International Energy Agency, on which leading climate models are based, assume that the least developed countries will fail to close the prosperity gap with the rich of the world.

An extensive debunk of the Beacon Hill report was done by Synapse Energy Economics, and similar critiques can be read in the Portland Press Herald and the Maine Morning Sentinel, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Nature Resources Defense Council and the Washington Post.

Regarding the reports on renewable energy standards, Frank Ackerman, a Harvard PhD and Senior Economist with Synapse Energy Economics, Inc. said the Beacon Hill Institute models contained «wild overstatement (s) of the cost of wind energy, assumed that expensive backup capacity was always needed and running when wind energy was used, inflated the price of new transmission capacity, and overestimated job losses due to assumption of «hypersensitivity to tax rates.

We also filed a second set of comments together with the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office, Conservation Law Foundation, and others, that provides FERC with a new report from Synapse Energy Economics that clearly explains the results of ISO New England's recent updated analysis.

Delaware Riverkeeper Network asked Synapse Energy Economics and EQ Research to find a path forward that will enable Pennsylvania to serve its energy needs entirely with clean, zero ‐ emission renewables by 2050.

In a recent study for the Civil Society Institute, my colleagues and I at Synapse Energy Economics analyzed the ALEC studies of the costs of renewable energy.

Synapse Energy Economics estimated that an additional 33GW of wind power could save the 13 states served by the PJM power market nearly U.S. $ 7 billion a year by 2026.

Sarah Jackson, an analyst with Synapse Energy Economics Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., said the company's cash flow numbers show that consumers will lose «a great deal of money» in the next few years through the proposed PSR and will not «make that money back up» for at least the next 10 years.

A CFE - sponsored study by Synapse Energy Economics released this mont compares the 1 % annual increase to a 2.5 % annual increase, Coleman said.

As recently as February, Eversource and activists traded barbs over a study from Synapse Energy Economics that argued the Access Northeast pipeline is not needed.

Synapse Energy Economics joined with Sustainable Energy Advantage (SEA), as well as members from NECEC, Mass Energy Consumers Alliance, E4TheFuture, and other organizations to analyze the current state of regional renewable portfolio standards in light of many of new policy actions that have been put into place over the last several years.

Synapse Energy Economics is a research and consulting firm specializing in energy, economic, and environmental topics.

Some new analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the plant.

Another case for a sensible war on coal is this new analysis by Synapse Energy Economics of the much - lauded NRDC plan that proposed a state - by - state approach to setting limits on carbon pollution.

Currently at Synapse Energy Economics in Cambridge MA, Asa Hopkins, 2010 - 2011 Executive Branch Fellow at the Department of Energy (DOE), was until recently the director of energy policy and planning at the Vermont Department of Public Service.

Nor is natural gas - powered energy necessary to replace energy currently provided by Indian Point to the Lower Hudson Valley, as is amply documented by the Synapse Energy Economics Report.

The October 2012 Synapse Energy Economics report «Indian Pooint Replacement Analysis: A Clean Energy Roadmap», co-commissioned by Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council, concludes:

1 TIM WOOLF ET AL., SYNAPSE ENERGY ECONOMICS, INC., INDIAN POINT REPLACEMENT ANALYSIS: A CLEAN ENERGY ROADMAP: A PROPOSAL FOR REPLACING THE NUCLEAR PLANT WITH CLEAN, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY RESOURCES 1 - 2 (Oct. 2012), available at http://www.riverkeeper.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Synapse-Indian-Point-Replacement-Study-10-11.pdf

Now, a «Clean Energy for New York» report commissioned by Riverkeeper and the Natural Resources Defense Council from Synapse Energy Economics shows the power can be replaced with a combination of resources and upgrades in a number of scenarios.

Not exact matches

The NIST synapse's combination of small size, superfast spiking signals, low energy needs and 3 - D stacking capability could provide the means for a far more complex neuromorphic system than has been demonstrated with other technologies, according to the paper.

Even better than the real thing, the NIST synapse can fire much faster than the human brain — 1 billion times per second, compared to a brain cell's 50 times per second — using just a whiff of energy, about one ten - thousandth as much as a human synapse.

«The NIST synapse has lower energy needs than the human synapse, and we don't know of any other artificial synapse that uses less energy,» NIST physicist Mike Schneider said.

Astrocytes are responsible, for example, for the energy production of the brain, ion and pH balance, and they regulate synapse formation, the connections between neurons.

Aβ is believed to penetrate neuronal plasma membranes, where it leads to lipid peroxidation.10 It has also been implicated in deactivating a subunit of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, thereby inhibiting conversion of pyruvate to acetyl CoA and the eventual production of cellular energy as ATP.32 Another way Aβ affects glucose metabolism in the brain is that fragments of Aβ disrupt insulin signaling by binding to neuronal synapses, which alters their shape and function.15, 38 Insulin receptors are abundant at synapses, so if the integrity of the synapse itself has been compromised, the receptors won't function effectively.

Panelists will include authors of the Synapse report Air Emissions Displacement by Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, a survey of evidence that renewable resources and energy efficiency have indeed displaced fossil fuel resources connected to theEnergy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, a survey of evidence that renewable resources and energy efficiency have indeed displaced fossil fuel resources connected to theEnergy, a survey of evidence that renewable resources and energy efficiency have indeed displaced fossil fuel resources connected to theenergy efficiency have indeed displaced fossil fuel resources connected to the grid.

Prior to coming to Synapse, Jenny worked as deputy editor of Singapore - based eco-business.com, where she managed online content and wrote news articles about Asian and global sustainability issues including energy, carbon policy, corporate social responsibility, clean technology, green buildings, water and waste management and livable cities.

A new Synapse study finds that these claims are overblown, and that the costs to integrate increased amounts of wind and solar energy are minimal.

The return on investment is extremely high: a recent Synapse study found that consumers could save $ 41 billion in 2040 in a clean energy future in which renewable resources make up 70 percent of all generation.

Synapse performs operational and planning modeling analyses of electric power systems using industry - standard models such as Strategist, EnCompass, Market Analytics, PROMOD, and PLEXOS to evaluate long - term energy plans, assess the environmental and economic impacts of policy initiatives, and review utility system modeling.

Synapse modeled various Clean Power Plan compliance options to determine how big an impact strong energy efficiency policies can have on the achievability and affordability of complying with EPA's rule.

Using the Synapse Clean Power Plan Toolkit, a collection of purpose - built in - house tools and commercial models, including the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) model, Synapse examined the comparative cost of state implementation plans that maximize available energy efficiency strategies versus a future in which states are not Clean Power Plan ‐ compEnergy Laboratory's Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) model, Synapse examined the comparative cost of state implementation plans that maximize available energy efficiency strategies versus a future in which states are not Clean Power Plan ‐ compEnergy Deployment System (ReEDS) model, Synapse examined the comparative cost of state implementation plans that maximize available energy efficiency strategies versus a future in which states are not Clean Power Plan ‐ compenergy efficiency strategies versus a future in which states are not Clean Power Plan ‐ compliant.

Investing in high levels of clean energy and widespread energy efficiency programs can save money for a majority of households in each of the contiguous states, according to a Synapse modeling study released today.

Riverkeeper retained Synapse to assess the potential impacts to energy reliability and electric power sector air emissions associated with the construction and operation of a closed - cycle cooling system as the «best technology available» (BTA) for the Indian Point nuclear power plant, in order to inform the analysis being conducted by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) under the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA).

Synapse will also identify strategies that are effective across towns, provide support to towns to meet their energy reduction goal, and make recommendations to continue to advance and improve the program.

The first in a series of briefs on the study, released today, describes the results of a Clean Energy Future scenario developed by Synapse.

Synapse used NREL's Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) model to compare the costs of the United States transitioning to a Clean Energy Future with business ‐ as ‐ usual costs.

Prior to founding Synapse, Mr. Biewald was employed for 15 years at Energy Systems Research Group, which later became the Tellus Institute.

Pat was joined by several Synapse colleagues at the conference, including Vice President Tim Woolf, who presented on energy efficiency cost - effectiveness screening in a separate panel.

The proceeding — with a focus on Synapse's benefit - cost analysis report — was a top story in Fierce Energy's daily roundup of news on September 24.

A new study from Synapse shows that pursuing a cleaner energy future will help reduce consumer costs while lowering greenhouse gas emissions.

Synapse found that electric consumers can save $ 41 billion in the year 2040 as compared to business as usual if states pursue clean energy options.

To support this initiative, Synapse developed a benefit - cost analysis framework that will provide the Commission and other stakeholders with the information necessary to determine which resources will be in the public interest and will meet the Commission's energy policy goals.

For states that choose rate - based compliance approaches (see Synapse's previous blog posts about rate - and mass - based compliance), the final Clean Power Plan explicitly allows energy efficiency measures to produce Emission Rate Credits (ERCs) despite energy efficiency not being one of the building blocks used in target setting.

Synapse will continue to examine CELT 2018 and looks forward to publishing updates to its New England energy efficiency and distributed solar estimates in the coming months.

As Synapse notes, when the ISO incorporated the most up - to - date projections of future electricity demand, renewable energy, and energy efficiency resources, and corrected several errant assumptions from its original analysis, the fuel security and resilience concerns it previously raised disappeared.

Complementary to our utility resource planning capabilities, Synapse works with our clients to develop and analyze energy future scenarios for states, regions, and the nation as a whole.