Erin Malone Email and Phone Number

Erin Malone specializes in assessing energy efficiency policy, program design, and implementation. Since joining Synapse in early 2012, much of her work has focused on energy efficiency cost-effectiveness, rate and bill impacts, participation analysis, avoided costs, performance incentives, and best practices for energy efficiency.Ms. Malone has played a key role in developing expert testimony on demand-side management (DSM) performance incentives in Missouri, DSM as an alternative to… Show more Erin Malone specializes in assessing energy efficiency policy, program design, and implementation. Since joining Synapse in early 2012, much of her work has focused on energy efficiency cost-effectiveness, rate and bill impacts, participation analysis, avoided costs, performance incentives, and best practices for energy efficiency.Ms. Malone has played a key role in developing expert testimony on demand-side management (DSM) performance incentives in Missouri, DSM as an alternative to purchasing a coal-fired resource in Kentucky, and energy efficiency rate and bill impacts in Colorado and Nova Scotia. She provides ongoing support to the Cape Light Compact-the municipal aggregator for Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard-including support for the development of annual reports, energy efficiency recovery rate filings, and issue-specific technical analyses.In 2013, Ms. Malone coauthored a major study for the National Home Performance Council recommending a comprehensive set of best practices to ensure that energy efficiency cost-effectiveness tests are properly and consistently applied, in order to account for the full benefits of energy efficiency programs. The study, Best Practices in Energy Efficiency Program Screening, is particularly relevant to the increasing number of U.S. states requiring program administrators to pursue all cost-effective energy efficiency. Her recent work also includes developing a robust bill impact model, capable of being applied to each state across the country, and surveying several U.S. states on their cost-effectiveness practices and policies. Finally, in March 2014, she testified at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities regarding the Cape Light Compact's 2011 and 2012 Annual Energy Efficiency Reports. Show less

Synapse is a research and consulting firm specializing in energy, economics, and environmental topics. • Compose reports, white papers, and testimony focusing on energy efficiency, demand response, and carbon compliance costs for clients throughout North America.• Manage relationship with Cape Light Compact to develop their 2013-2015 energy efficiency plan, including budget modeling, cost-benefit analyses, and regulatory policy review.• Interviewed utility customers regarding… Show more Synapse is a research and consulting firm specializing in energy, economics, and environmental topics. • Compose reports, white papers, and testimony focusing on energy efficiency, demand response, and carbon compliance costs for clients throughout North America.• Manage relationship with Cape Light Compact to develop their 2013-2015 energy efficiency plan, including budget modeling, cost-benefit analyses, and regulatory policy review.• Interviewed utility customers regarding barriers to and opportunities for participation in energy efficiency programs so as to advise utilities on program improvements.• Coauthored a major study for the National Home Performance Council recommending best practices to ensure that efficiency cost-effectiveness tests are properly and consistently applied.• Write a report on demand response cost-effectiveness as part of a national forum and working group sponsored by the Department of Energy and FERC. Show less

The DPU is the Massachusetts' state Department that oversees investor-owned electric power, natural gas and water utilities.• Established energy efficiency policy by recommending decisions to the governor-appointed Commission through presentations, memorandums, and draft orders.• Executed timely approval of utilities’ energy efficiency 2008-2012 plans and 2006-2010 reports, which resulted in billions of dollars in net benefits for Massachusetts.• Created a revolutionary Excel… Show more The DPU is the Massachusetts' state Department that oversees investor-owned electric power, natural gas and water utilities.• Established energy efficiency policy by recommending decisions to the governor-appointed Commission through presentations, memorandums, and draft orders.• Executed timely approval of utilities’ energy efficiency 2008-2012 plans and 2006-2010 reports, which resulted in billions of dollars in net benefits for Massachusetts.• Created a revolutionary Excel model that analyzed the impacts of efficiency on consumers’ rates and bills, allowing efficiency to overcome a key obstacle for achieving program funding.• Key player in stakeholder working groups that constructed reporting templates and guidelines.• Approved over 70 electricity broker and competitive supplier applications for license. Show less

• Determined BC’s climate mitigation practices then composed the written and visual content for BC’s sustainability website, accessible at www.bc.edu/sustainability.• Analyzed energy consumption and trends on campus by navigating energy management software.• Increased campus awareness of recycling and conservation by reporting on environmental news.

• Performed administrative assignments as requested by engineers and project managers.• Ensured accuracy and quality of project submissions and reports by editing content and form.• Organized and cataloged completed projects into archival system for future reference.