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David White

David White is a Senior Consultant with Synapse Energy Economics. The primary focus of his work is the technical analysis and modeling of electricity system operations and expansion, electricity industry regulation, energy efficiency programs, renewable resource technologies, and clean air regulations and policies. .

Dr. White has modeled most of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) regions in the United States and Canada. Many of these projects have involved examining proposed mergers and their potential effects on market power and market prices. A recent focus has been on the analysis of long-term generation expansion plans and the role of uncertainty in those analyses.

Dr. White's recent work includes consulting on electric industry restructuring, stranded costs, system benefits, market power, mergers and acquisitions, generation asset valuation and divestiture, power plant costs and performance, renewable resources, power supply contracts and performance standards, green marketing of electricity, environmental disclosure, climate change policy, environmental externalities valuation, energy conservation and demand-side management, electric power system reliability, and electricity market simulation modeling for price forecasting and market power analysis.

He holds a PhD in Engineering Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and BS and MS degrees in Physics. He has analyzed energy systems and been involved with computer modeling since the mid 1970s, including five years at the MIT Energy Laboratory. Dr. White worked with Energy Systems Research Group (later Tellus Institute) where he had a lead in developing many computer modeling systems for energy and environmental analysis.