The Synapse report provides a general overview using typical national market prices for energy.
The small but critical measures identified in
the Synapse report are necessary to ensure the expansion happens efficiently.
You can read more in (Mis) understanding Climate Policy: The role of economic modelling,
a Synapse report prepared on behalf of WWF - UK and Friends of the Earth.
View the full
Synapse report, Economic Impacts of the NRDC Carbon Standard.
In addition to analyzing the regional impact,
the Synapse report reviews national - and utility - level data to infer displaced emissions rates at lower and higher resolutions.
The Synapse report compares the findings from four RTOs that report emissions displacement rates — or marginal fuel data that imply displacement rates — ranging from 0.30 to 0.80 metric tons per megawatt - hour over the past year.
The Synapse report was not intended to answer that question, he added.
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 the grid.
Not exact matches
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.
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:
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.
In October researchers at Columbia University
reported that young mice predisposed to acquiring Alzheimer's accumulate protein clusters in synaptic mitochondria and that these clusters directly impair
synapse function.
Now, one group
reports in ACS Nano that they have developed an artificial
synapse capable of simulating a fundamental function of our nervous system — the release of inhibitory and stimulatory signals from the same «pre-synaptic» terminal.
CD8αα and - αβ isotypes are equally recruited to the immunological
synapse through their ability to bind to MHC class I. EMBO
reports.
Specific effects in response to changing nutrient availability at the level of the
synapse has not been
reported before.
As the RGGI participating states and regional stakeholders come together next week to review the RGGI program,
Synapse's new
report serves as a reminder that the RGGI states can achieve their ambitious 2030 goals to drastically reduce greenhouse gases with considerable benefit to the region.
Last week, a team of
Synapse staff members led by Dr. Elizabeth A. Stanton released a
report detailing least - cost strategies for RGGI states to reduce emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.
Ms. Whited and Dr. Ackerman recently authored a
report with
Synapse colleague Sarah Jackson on behalf of the Civil Society Institute (CSI) about the electric sector's excessive water consumption in a water constrained world.
On February 6, 2017
Synapse released a
report on «New England's Shrinking Need for Natural Gas.»
An earlier
report by
Synapse found similar savings for Midwest states served by the Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO) power market by 2020 with the addition of 20GW of wind power.
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.
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.
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.
Synapse modeled two case studies with AVERT, a tool that uses historical generation and emissions data
reported to the EPA by U.S. power plants to estimate the hourly emissions and generation benefits of clean energy policies and programs.
To learn what
Synapse found by reviewing the U.S. Energy Information Administration's Annual Energy Outlook and IRP studies from three large utilities — and to dive deeper into the regional data — read the full
report.
Synapse is thrilled to release the resulting
report this week.
The
report updates
Synapse's 2012 CO2 price forecast with new data and is intended to be used as a resource for utility integrated resource planning and other electricity planning analyses.
Synapse is thrilled to announce the release of a new
report, Show Me the Numbers: A Framework for Balanced Distributed Solar Policies.
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.
Synapse researchers Bob Fagan, Alice Napoleon, Spencer Fields, and Patrick Luckow present their findings and a policy framework for supporting New York's transition to cleaner resources in Clean Energy for New York, a
report prepared for Riverkeeper and Natural Resources Defense Council.
In the study cited in the
report,
Synapse reviewed the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) CGE model, an economic model developed to analyze tax policies that has been applied to British climate policy proposals (and has found these proposals to be quite expensive).
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.
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.
This
report is the product of almost 6 months of research by ACEEE staff, supported by analysts at
Synapse Energy Economics, Inc..
Synapse released a
report today that identifies key barriers to the continued rapid expansion of wind and solar energy.