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Geoff Keith
Geoff Keith is a senior associate at Synapse Energy Economics. His work is focused on the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts in the U.S. electricity sector. This includes detailed analysis of the nation's coal-fired power plants and of the renewable energy technologies that could replace many of them in the coming decades. His work also addresses the impacts of power plants on specific river systems; environmental and operational issues related to distributed generation; and avoided emissions from demand reductions in several power control areas. Mr. Keith has led projects that included detailed power system modeling, and has developed several spreadsheet models focused on specific aspects of power systems. He also works with clients to analyze the development of renewable portfolio standards and environmental disclosure requirements.
Mr. Keith has worked extensively with advocates and technology manufacturers to support the commercialization of fuel cells and other clean energy technologies. In 1999, he wrote Emission Trading Markets and Fuel Cells: Issues and Opportunities for the Northeast Fuel Cell Work Group. Later, he directed an inventory and analysis of distribution utility tariffs, focusing on aspects of these tariffs that impact the economic viability of distributed generation. He was the lead researcher in the development of a Distributed Resource Emissions Model, developed to assess the emissions impacts of policies related to distributed generation. In 2004, he authored a study of the impact of demand response programs on air emissions in the Northeast, which was published in The Electricity Journal.
Before joining Synapse, Mr. Keith was a consultant with M. J. Bradley & Associates, a strategic environmental consulting firm with expertise in the energy sectors. There, he worked with several energy companies to assess market opportunities around clean power generation and to support more stringent emission standards such as EPA's revised fine particulate and ozone standards and the "NOx SIP Call." At M.J. Bradley, Mr. Keith also worked with northeastern environmental advocates, monitoring the environmental impacts of electric restructuring and participating in proceedings on renewable portfolio standards and electricity labeling.
Prior to working with M.J. Bradley, Mr. Keith was a research associate with the Rhode Island Division of Public Utilities and Carriers. Among other projects there, he worked with stakeholders to develop the Division's electric restructuring plan in 1995. Mr. Keith holds a Bachelor of Arts from Tufts University and a Master of Environmental Studies from Brown University.
