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Alice Napoleon
As a Research Associate at Synapse Energy Economics, Alice Napoleon conducts economic and policy analysis of electric system and emissions regulations. Her recent projects include researching policies and trends that impact PM2.5 ambient concentrations, analyzing economic drivers of electric system emissions of primary and secondary PM, and proposing policies for mitigating these emissions in and around New York City. She recently conducted a sweeping review of emissions allowance markets, models, and projections; economic and policy developments that impact these markets; and the legislative and regulatory constraints on fossil-fired power plants in Nevada, Arizona, Delaware, and Florida.
In addition to emissions-related topics, her work at Synapse has included projects focused on market power, risk management policies, provider-of-last-resort and regulated power procurement. In the regular course of her work, Ms. Napoleon researches demographic and economic data, federal and state regulations, rulemakings and legal precedent; writes reports, discovery, and material for testimony; and conducts analysis in support of testimony.
She previously worked at Resource Insight, Inc. where she supported investigations of electric, gas, steam, and water resource issues, primarily in the context of reviews by state utility regulatory commissions. In this capacity, she surveyed state-level policies promoting renewables and electric and gas demand side management, conducted research and analysis on the benefits and avoided costs of repowering coal-fired plants, participated in drafting an Energy Plan for New York City, and compiled a comparison of ISO-level generation and transmission planning processes.
Ms. Napoleon also helped to structure solicitations for wholesale competitive power supply to serve aggregated municipal load; calculated market-price benchmarks for analysis of power-supply bids, using market and regulated prices for energy, capacity, ancillary services, transmission and ISO services, load shape, and losses; surveyed the development and structure of competitive markets, jurisdictional cost allocation, and performance standards; and conducted a discounted cash flow analysis for generation asset valuation. These projects involved drafting discovery questions and responses, formal objections, comments, and testimony; collaboratively writing and editing reports; and managing data, case filings, and discovery.
Before joining the staff of Resource Insight, Ms. Napoleon completed an internship with the Cities for Climate Protection Program in which she compiled energy consumption data to calculate total greenhouse-gas emissions and analyzed economic conditions for green-power initiatives. She also worked as both a teaching assistant and a research assistant at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She holds an MA in Public Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a BA in Economics from Rutgers University.
