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An Analysis of the Massachusetts 2018 'Act to Promote a Clean Energy Future' Report

Client: Barr Foundation

Liz Stanton, PhD, Tyler Comings, Rachel Wilson, Sagal Alisalad, Emrat Nur Marzan, Nina Schlegel, Bryndis Woods, Jason Gifford, Edward Snook, and Po-Yu Yuen

June 2018

On behalf of the Barr Foundation, Clinic Director and Senior Economist Liz Stanton, PhD, along with members of the Applied Economics Clinic (AEC) staff and members of Sustainable Energy Advantage's staff, prepared an AEC report analyzing the Massachusetts 2018 “Act to Promote a Clean Energy Future”. The act includes a range of provisions to address climate change while strengthening the state’s innovation economy, including accelerating renewable energy targets, creating aggressive offshore wind and battery storage goals, and removing limits on rooftop solar. AEC and Sustainable Energy Advantage's study of the economic impacts of these policies found benefits for Massachusetts: new jobs, a stronger economy, more renewable resources, and lower greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, these policies would have little or no effect on consumers’ electric bills through 2030.

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tags: Liz-Stanton, Tyler-Comings, Sagal-Alisalad, Emrat-Marzan, Nina-Schlegel, Bryndis-Woods
categories: Clean Energy, Massachusetts
Thursday 06.21.18
Posted by Liz Stanton
 

Accessing Energy Efficiency in Massachusetts

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Client: Conservation Law Foundation

Liz Stanton, PhD, Emrat Nur Marzan and Sagal Alisalad

February 2018

On behalf of the Conservation Law Foundation, Clinic Director and Senior Economist Liz Stanton, PhD, and Research Assistants, Emrat Nur Marzan and Sagal Alisalad, prepared an Applied Economics Clinic (AEC) report that investigates how well Massachusetts' energy efficiency programs are reaching under-served communities and hard-to-reach families. In 2017, Massachusetts' "Mass Save" energy efficiency programs ranked number one in the annual efficiency scorecard produced by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) for the seventh consecutive year. Mass Save's ranking is not, however, a good indicator of whether or not low-income households are getting the services they need. At present, it is not possible to answer this question completely because Mass Save program administrators have access to - but do not include in publicly available statistics - information regarding low-income households, under-served communities and hard-to-reach families. Working with limited data, AEC found that there are substantial differences in energy savings among Massachusetts’ towns, and lower-income communities are receiving lower efficiency savings. This report presents maps and other figures showing differences in efficiency savings, income, and other community characteristics like language abilities and renter status for both Massachusetts towns and neighborhoods within Boston.

This report is one of three AEC publications on behalf of Conservation Law Foundation and other stakeholders in the Massachusetts Energy Efficiency Advisory Council.

News Coverage: Barr Foundation Blog Post

News Coverage: Sampan Newspaper

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tags: Liz-Stanton, Emrat-Marzan, Sagal-Alisalad
categories: Massachusetts, Energy Efficiency
Monday 02.26.18
Posted by Liz Stanton
 

Atlantic Coast Pipeline: Economics and Manufacturing Jobs

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Client: Natural Resources Defense Council

Rachel Wilson, Sagal Alisalad, Emrat Nur Marzan, and Bryndis Woods

December 2017

On behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Senior Researcher Rachel Wilson, Researcher Bryndis Woods, and Research Assistants Sagal Alisalad and Emrat Nur Marzan, prepared an Applied Economics Clinic report regarding the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The Atlantic Coast Pipeline had been planned to travel through West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina and was intended to bring natural gas to markets in those states. Dominion Transmission, Inc., the leading percentage owner of the pipeline, made several arguments in favor of the project based on reports it commissioned from ICF International and Chmura Economics & Analytics. In this report, AEC staff examined the merit of each of these claims and found them to be unsupported based on available data.

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tags: Sagal-Alisalad, Emrat-Marzan, Bryndis-Woods
categories: Pipeline, Gas Plants
Tuesday 12.05.17
Posted by Liz Stanton