Economic Analysis of National Appliance Efficiency Standards

Appliance Standards Awareness Project
Completed November 2000

Synapse drafted comments to the US Department of Energy regarding the electricity price assumptions that should be used in estimating the benefits of national air conditioner efficiency standards. This analysis included a review of hourly electricity prices from competitive and regulated US electricity markets in 1998, 1999, and 2000. Tim Woolf and Bruce Biewald provided results in oral testimony before the US DOE.  Project completed in November 2000.