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Kenji
TakahashiKenji Takahashi is a Research Associate at Synapse Energy Economics. He has been conducting economic, environmental, and policy analysis of electric system technologies, policies, and regulations associated with both supply and demand side resources. More specifically, he has significant experience in the analysis of integrated resource planning, renewable energy portfolio standards, distributed generation, demand response (including advanced metering infrastructures), and energy efficiency measures and programs. He also has examined ratemaking issues such as standby rates for distributed generation and decoupling rate mechanisms for energy efficiency measures.
For the past two years, Mr. Takahashi has been heavily involved in the development of state climate change action plans in Colorado, Maryland, and South Carolina. In these projects, he has led the analysis team in evaluating cost-benefits of and green house emission reductions from numerous demand and supply-side policy options that were developed through stakeholder discussion processes.
Prior to joining Synapse, he was a Research Associate at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) of the University of Delaware. In one of his research projects at CEEP, he investigated the impacts of different distribution rate designs on the development of distributed energy resources (e.g., renewable energy, distributed generation, energy efficiency, and demand response). A report for this research was prepared for a local electric distribution company.
Mr. Takahashi also held a regulatory research intern position for Delaware Division of Public Advocate and a research intern position at Resources for the Future. At these organizations he gained extensive research experience in the field of distributed energy resource policy and electric utility regulation and restructuring.
Mr. Takahashi holds an MA in Urban Affairs and Public Policy with a concentration in Energy and Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware and a BA in Law with a concentration in Public Administration from Kansai University in Osaka, Japan.
