Comments on Southwestern Electric Power Company's Draft 2019 Integrated Resource Plan

SWEPCO John W. Turk Jr. Power Plant

Source: Power Engineering

Client: Sierra Club

Authors: Sierra Club with assistance from AEC (Tyler Comings, Bryndis Woods, Ricardo Lopez, PhD, and Eliandro Tavares)

April 2019

Senior Researcher Tyler Comings, Researcher Bryndis Woods, Senior Researcher Ricardo Lopez and Assistant Researcher Eliandro Tavares assisted Sierra Club in comments on Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO)’s Draft 2019 Integrated Resource Plan. The Sierra Club concluded that SWEPCO's analysis was biased in favor keeping coal assets on-line and failed to evaluate economics of its existing resources.

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Performance-Based Incentives for Gas Utilities

Client: Gas Leak Allies

Authors: Bryndis Woods, Liz Stanton, PhD, and Ricardo Lopez, PhD

November 2018 - April 2019

Researcher Bryndis Woods, Clinic Director and Senior Economist Liz Stanton, PhD, and Senior Researcher Ricardo Lopez, PhD, prepared a policy brief discussing how Massachusetts' natural gas utilities currently receive compensation, the inconsistencies between utilities' incentives and the Commonwealth's legally mandated emission reductions, and the performance-based incentives that can align gas utilities' business interests with their responsibility to reduce emissions.

This policy brief is the first of two AEC publications on behalf of Gas Leak Allies. A forthcoming policy brief will analyze the return on investment for gas leak repairs in the Commonwealth.

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