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Douglas B. ElliottBattelle Portland Operations |
Doug Elliott, a Research Economist, has been with PNNL since 1991. He received a BA in Economics from Whitman College and an MA in Economics from the University of Virginia, where his fields were Public Economics and Industrial Organization. Since joining the lab, Mr. Elliott has participated in a variety of projects focused mainly in the areas of energy policy, resource efficiency, cost-benefit and regulatory analysis, and software development.
Currently Mr. Elliott supports the GPRA Metrics project through the development of the Visual Basic-based BESET interface and algorithms, which estimate required investment and potential energy savings associated with federal energy programs. The tool also includes a Crystal Report-based reporting mechanism, allowing users to view outputs in a variety of formats. Other recent projects have included several environmental impact statements, for which he developed geographic information systems (GIS) and demographic databases to assist in the examination of potential socioeconomic impacts of various proposed government policies and programs.
Over the past several years, Mr. Elliott has performed numerous life-cycle cost analyses, involving the evaluation and selection of optimal energy and water conservation strategies at various federal installations. Other projects have included: large-scale data analysis for investor-owned utility demand-side management programs, and most recently, the Save Water and Energy Education Program (SWEEP); a Nuclear Regulatory Commission survey of nuclear power plant incentive regulation; a standards impact assessment; and a study of secondary markets for natural gas transportation.
Mr. Elliott enjoys focusing on projects with an analytical or quantitative element. Key skills frequently used include Access database development and analysis, GIS development using ArcView, Visual Basic and SQL programming, and cost-benefit analysis. He is always interested in projects that continue to develop and expand upon this set of quantitative and analytical tools and/or include an interesting economic problem or element.