Webinar on "Exploring the Costs of EPA’s Clean Power Plan: A Closer Look at Regulatory Design"
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Webinar on "Exploring the Costs of EPA’s Clean Power Plan: A Closer Look at Regulatory Design"
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In June 2014, the US Environmental Protection Agency released its Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA) for the Clean Power Plan’s proposed carbon pollution guidelines for existing power plants (concurrent with the proposed rules themselves). The RIA provided a range of cost estimates for compliance with the rule—and since then, a number of external studies have also sought to quantify the costs of compliance, monitoring and reporting.
This webinar will explore what we know about the varying cost estimates, including the assumptions and methods that have led to different overall figures. Following this brief review, scholars from EPRI and RFF will highlight several key challenges in calculating overall regulatory costs, providing an intellectual framework for policymakers and utilities as they consider the impacts on their states and industries.
This is the third event in a joint RFF-EPRI series on EPA's Clean Power Plan: Exploring Opportunities for Collaboration and Compliance.
Space is limited. Reserve your webinar seat now.
12:00 p.m. Welcome and Introduction
• Kristin Hayes, Assistant Director, RFF's Center for Energy and Climate Economics, Resources for the Future
12:05 p.m. Overview of EPA's Regulatory Impact Assessment; Review of Cost Estimate Studies and Ranges
•Tom Wilson, Senior Program Manager, EPRI
12:20 p.m. Challenges in Modeling the Costs of Energy Efficiency as a Resource
•David Young, Senior Senior Technical Leader, EPRI
12:35 p.m. Challenges in Evaluating the Use of New Natural Gas Combined Cycle (NGCC) units for Compliance, and Their Interaction with Mass-Based vs. Rate-Based Compliance Approaches
•Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, RFF
12:50 p.m. Q&A
1:15 p.m. Adjourn
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