In addition to emissions-related topics, her work at Synapse has included projects focused on electricity and coal market data, models, and projections, as well as economic and policy developments that impact these markets. She has provided expert analysis on demand side resource policies and ratemaking; integrated resource planning; renewable resource policies, costs and potentials; risk management policies; Regional Transmission Organization processes and markets; and 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 questions and responses, and expert 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.