Neil provides economic and strategic consulting services to both regulated distribution and vertically-integrated utilities, competitive generators and energy suppliers, and other companies and policy organizations active in the energy space. He specializes in advising companies about customer choice and competitive electricity markets, regulatory policies, and the design of utility default service supply procurement. Using a combination of market insights, policy and regulatory expertise, perspectives on the energy transition, and rigorous analytic and economic skills, he has worked with clients to develop recommendations to modernize greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting and reporting policies, assess risks for existing generation and new investments, evaluate emerging clean energy technologies, and achieve carbon-free procurement goals. He has been selected to the World Resources Institute’s and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development’s GHG Protocol Scope 2 Technical Working Group, as part of a crucially important effort to update the world’s most established and widely used accounting standards for how companies, cities, and countries measure, manage, and report GHG emissions.

Neil has co-authored a variety of papers, articles, and GHG accounting proposals, including:

• Modernizing GHG Accounting Rules and Climate Leadership Programs: How Attributional and Consequential Measures Differ and Why Both are Essential to Measure and Incentivize Progress Towards GHG Reduction Goals
• Modernizing GHG Accounting Rules and Climate Leadership Programs: When Should Companies be Able to Claim They Consume Carbon-Free Electricity
• Modernizing How Electricity Buyers Account and are Recognized for Decarbonization Impact and Climate Leadership
• Review and Assessment of Literature on Deep Decarbonization in the United States: Importance of System Scale and Technological Diversity
• Comments on the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Implementing Instructions for Executive Order 14057 Catalyzing Clean Energy Industries and Jobs Through Federal Sustainability
• Webinar on Modernizing GHG Accounting Rules and Climate Leadership Programs
• Joint Letter to WRI and WBCSD: Greenhouse Gas Protocol Scope 2 Guidance Modernization
• Scope 2 Guidance Proposal: Market-Based Modernization, Emissions Impact Disclosures, Standardized Reporting Format
• Embrace Electric Competition Or It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again.

Neil graduated from the Honors Program at Swarthmore College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and earned a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Yale School of Management. He also is a co-founder of the Library Initiative for Teens and Tweens (LITT), an independent project to support teen library programs and spaces in under-resourced public libraries, and former board president and current finance committee member of The Children’s Room, a nonprofit dedicated to creating safe, supportive communities so that no child, teen, or family has to grieve alone. He and his wife, Meryl, live in Lexington, Massachusetts.