Policy & Market Analysis
TIAX California helps to guide the development of policy and supports market adoption by analyzing technologies, opportunities, and strategies.
Policies and market opportunities are evaluated in terms of technology benefits, weighed against trade-offs in costs and compared against competitive technologies. Benefits include improved performance, lower pollutant emissions, lower carbon intensity, and economic advantages. Costs include both direct costs (such as initial technology costs, amortized capital costs, and operation and maintenance costs) and indirect costs (such as the monetized societal costs of environmental, economic, and health impacts).
Example projects:
- Assisted the California Air Resources Board in developing the California Hydrogen Highway Network Blueprint Plan.
- Performed an assessment of advanced engine and vehicle technologies to improve fuel economy and reduce energy consumption by Class 2b to Class 8 trucks and buses for the National Academy of Sciences.
- Supported the California Air Resources Board in analyzing alternative fuel pathways for meeting California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
- Performed technical, economic, and policy analysis for the States of Washington and Oregon to support their development of Low Carbon Fuel Standards.
- Assisted the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District in analyzing all available technologies and strategies to reduce ozone precursors and developing its ozone State Implementation Plan (SIP).
For more information contact Jeff Rosenfeld or Karen Law via email or by phone at 408-517-1550.