Charles River Associates (CRA) was retained by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) to analyze the economic, reliability, and environmental effects of the proposed retirement of the Indian Point Energy Center, a nuclear power plant in Westchester County, New York. This analysis helped the City of New York and other key energy stakeholders understand the implications of IPEC’s potential retirement.
Weathering the storm: Utility resource planning in the face of weather-driven reliability risks
The authors assessed how modeling different weather year scenarios in capacity expansion planning can impact resource investment decisions and the resulting...