Join the USAEE New England chapter for it's next luncheon event, "More Two-way Trade in Green Electrons Across the US-Canada Border," on Friday, December 4, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. at StoneTurn on State Street in Boston.
John E. Parsons, the Deputy Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be the featured speaker.
All are welcome to attend — USAEE membership is not required. Entry fee is $30. This will represent the fourth 2026 meeting of the New England Chapter of USAEE, a professional organization dedicated to advancing energy economics.
More Two-way Trade in Green Electrons
Across the U.S.-Canada Border
Friday, December 4 | 12:00 p.m. EST
StoneTurn
Suite 1710, Large Conference Room
75 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
Entry fee: $30
John Parsons is the Deputy Director for Research at the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR). His research focuses on the valuation and financing of investments in energy markets, as well as the problems of risk in energy and environment markets. Recent publications have touched on the value of changing the utilization of transmission to maximize the value of hydro assets and expanded penetration of renewables, the value of investments in life extensions of nuclear power plants, the economics of new microreactors, and the impact of decarbonization on generation assets in the U.S. midcontinent.
Dr. Parsons served as an Associate Member of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Dr. Parsons served as the Executive Director at both CEEPR and the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, and also as Head of Sloan’s MBA Finance Track. Before returning to MIT, Dr. Parsons spent ten years as a business consultant at Charles River Associates. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University and an A.B. from Princeton University.