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Chris Neil

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	Member Since: 05/10/04 Author Rating: Silver Article Count: 7 Email this author Phone: 719-668-8627

Background

Chris Neil is an energy economist with over 30 years of experience, primarily in the areas of resource planning and forecasting. In the late 1980’s, Mr. Neil co-authored a report for the US Environmental Protection Agency that was one of the factors used to select the cap-and-trade system for sulfur dioxide reductions in the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.

Mr. Neil has extensive experience in evaluating power generation alternatives. He has evaluated alternative supply- and demand-side resource options for more than a dozen individual utility systems. He is currently involved in another analysis of utility resource options that specifically includes renewable generation alternatives under a state renewable portfolio standard. For approximately five years, Mr. Neil performed market analyses of the entire country using a model that included essentially every generating unit in the continental U.S., over 10,000 individual generating units. This analysis system was also used to evaluate almost a dozen merchant power plants. Mr. Neil also worked closely with the natural gas modeling group on meeting the gas needs for new power plants as well as gas needs for heating and processing loads. He has also contributed to studies that examined the outlook for coal, power plant environmental requirements, electric transmission, and natural gas.

Mr. Neil has published articles in Energy Pulse, The Electricity Journal, Energy Insight, and the Oil and Gas Journal. He holds a BS and MS from The Colorado School of Mines and an MSIA from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Articles

6.30.09	Carbon Monoxide Catalyst Could Solve Energy and Global Warming Problems Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 4956 Times; 20 comments A catalyst that converts carbon monoxide into carbon and oxygen could solve the world's need for energy, particularly energy that doesn't emit greenhouse gases. In the gasification process, water and a carbon-rich fuel react to produce hydrogen and carbon monoxide.

9.4.07	An Analysis of the Carbon Emissions Impact of the Senate Energy Bill Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 8568 Times; 99 comments On June 21, 2007, the Senate passed H.R. 6, the Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy efficiency Act of 2007. This Senate Bill, as it is referred to here, was hailed as a major political victory in efforts to address national security and global climate change.

5.23.07	The Utility Industry's Approach to Global Climate Change Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 9474 Times; 108 comments The utility industry is pursuing a solution to global climate change that could lead to significant reductions in emissions related to global climate change. The industry needs to aggressively pursue these steps in order to have a significant impact on emissions, but many key steps are being undertaken or have been started.

10.6.06	A Low-Cost Solution to Global Climate Change - Part II Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 6891 Times; 12 comments Transportation-related emissions reduction opportunities are discussed in this article - yesterday's article addressed cost-effective means of reducing electric generation-related emissions.

10.5.06	A Low-Cost Solution to Global Climate Change - Part I Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 10055 Times; 44 comments This "Low-Cost Scenario" reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the U.S. by over 40% from the baseline projection without adverse impacts on the economy; without significant additional costs to utility customers, and without carbon taxes, cap-and-trade or similar programs.

5.22.06	Solar Hybrid Vehicles Topic: Solar Article Viewed 15225 Times; 25 comments Hybrid vehicles with solar photovoltaic (PV) panels should be part of the solution to America's environmental problems and dependence on oil. Oil is the principal energy challenge because of supplies from unstable and unfriendly countries. PV panels added to hybrid cars are much more cost effective than PV panels added to buildings, and solar hybrid vehicles directly address the oil problem.

5.12.04	Power Plant Overbuilding in Southeast -- A Problem and an Opportunity Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 4711 Times; 4 comments Duke Energy, Teco Energy and Entergy announcements in recent weeks underscore the problems and opportunities caused by massive overbuilding of power plants in the southeastern United States.

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