1、REPORTPATHWAYS TOWARD GRID DECARBONIZATION:IMPACTS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENERGY CUSTOMERS FROM SEVERAL U.S.DECARBONIZATION APPROACHESCEBIClean Energy Buyers InstituteSeptember 2022ABOUT THE AUTHORSDaniel Shawhan,Ph.D.is a Fellow at Resources for the Future(RFF).He is an economist who also makes exte

2、nsive use of power system engineering and has been doing power sector policy research and market design since 1995.Shawhan and colleagues have developed a set of methods for advanced simulation of the electric power sector to project the benefits,costs,and other effects of potential policies and sys

3、tem investments.Those methods are embodied in the Engineering,Economic,and Environmental Electricity Simulation Tool(E4ST).Shawhan also focuses on electricity market and incentive design,having assisted five U.S.states with their successful electric industry restructuring,and more recently focusing

4、on pricing of externalities,distribution,and ancillary services.He obtained his PhD in economics from Cornell University in 2008.He is an adjunct faculty member in Cornell Universitys Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and serves on the Environmental Advisory Council of the New York In

5、dependent System Operator.Steven Witkin is a Research Analyst at RFF and a developer of E4ST.His research focuses on analyzing the effects of policy and technology alternatives on the future of the electricity sector.He graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in 2020 with a masters degree in app

6、lied mathematics and statistics.Christoph Funke is a Research Analyst at RFF and a developer of E4ST.His research aims to understand the effects of government policies and innovation on the electricity sector.Funke holds a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics and geophysics from Yale Universit