Lucy Metz

Lucy Metz conducts analysis and writes publications on a variety of topics including integrated resource planning, power plant economics, industrial sector decarbonization, building performance standards, and state and local climate policy. She supports the development of comments and testimony in utility planning dockets across the country and recently submitted testimony before the public utility commissions of North Carolina, Kansas, and Wisconsin. Ms. Metz also has experience conducting capacity expansion and production cost modeling in EnCompass and building stock turnover modeling using Synapse's in-house tool, the Building Decarbonization Calculator (BDC).

Previously, she worked as a research assistant for Dr. Alexander Barron at Smith College, where she designed the data visualization and analysis for USREP-ReEDS modeling of Clean Air Act policy and co-authored a paper on carbon neutrality in higher education.

Ms. Metz graduated magna cum laude from Smith College with a BS in Engineering Science.