Impact Analysis
Economic impact studies, regional effects, fiscal implications, and defensible findings for projects, policies, programs, and resource decisions.
Resource, Environmental & Applied Economics
Clear economic analysis for decisions shaped by land, water, energy, and public value.
Western Economics LLC helps agencies, utilities, businesses, and communities evaluate impacts, tradeoffs, costs, benefits, and practical policy choices with disciplined economic methods.
What We Do
Specialized economics for complex resource and infrastructure questions.
We pair rigorous quantitative analysis with clear communication, helping decision-makers understand economic effects, distributional outcomes, financial implications, and public benefits before choices become costly to unwind.
Expertise
Focused support where economic evidence matters.
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Structured CBA for public and private decisions, including valuation, scenario testing, sensitivity analysis, risk, timing, and transparent tradeoff documentation.
Utilities Economics
Applied economics for utility planning, pricing, infrastructure investments, customer impacts, resource adequacy, conservation, and regulatory support.
Environmental & Resource Economics
Analysis for water, land, energy, natural resources, ecosystem services, mitigation, resilience, and environmental policy evaluation.
Approach
Useful analysis begins with the decision in front of you.
Western Economics keeps the work grounded in the audience, the available evidence, and the choice that needs to be made. Methods are selected to fit the question, then translated into findings that stand up to technical review and real-world discussion.
Decision-ready framing
Clear scope, assumptions, and alternatives before analysis begins.
Transparent methods
Models, data, limitations, and sensitivities documented for review.
Actionable findings
Results written for both technical audiences and public-facing decisions.
Contact
Bring economic clarity to your next resource, environmental, or utility decision.
Tell us what you are evaluating, the decision timeline, and the audiences who need confidence in the analysis.