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EPA Tools to Support States: Quantifying the Benefits of Clean Energy Policies (8.27.24)

Brief

EPA’s State & Local Climate and Energy program highlighted three free, peer-reviewed tools: AVERT (hourly marginal emissions, web/Excel, updated April 2024, models >25 MW dispatchable units, best for ≲5‑year horizons), COBRA (maps and monetizes PM2.5 health co‑benefits and links with AVERT), and EIS (Excel-based program planner combining 14 datasets to estimate savings, avoided emissions, peak impacts and energy burden down to utility scale).

Source evidence

EPA Tools to Support States: Quantifying the Benefits of Clean Energy Policies (8.27.24)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmrwo5P7gi0