Policy & Economics

Research on the economics and policy of energy supply, trading, delivery and consumption

MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Valerie Karplus discusses implications of China’s climate and energy policies at an MIT Club of France event during COP21 in Paris. Credit: Emily Dahl / MIT Energy Initiative

Research

Protecting our energy infrastructure

New analysis targets cybersafety

State-level renewable energy policies

Strengthening critical public support

Reducing risk in power generation planning

Why including non-carbon options is key

Limiting global warming

More aggressive measures are needed

Investigating carbon emissions in China

Can new policies curtail their growth?

Subsidies for clean energy

Designing incentives for green technology adoption

Publications

Enhanced Decision Support for a Changing Electricity Landscape

November 2017

Jesse Jenkins, Nestor Sepulveda

Business models for distributed energy resources: A review and empirical analysis

October 2017

Scott Burger

A review of the value of aggregators in electricity systems

September 2017

Scott Burger, Carlos Batlle, Ignacio Pérez-Arriaga

News

Podcast Cybersafety

Can hydrogen become part of the climate solution?

The MIT Energy Initiative’s 2019 Spring Symposium investigates the resurgence of global interest in low-carbon hydrogen.

Protecting our energy infrastructure

New analysis targets cybersafety

People

Antoine Allanore Assistant Professor

Materials Science and Engineering

Carlos Batlle Research Scholar

Moshe Ben-Akiva Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Adam Berinsky Professor

Political Science

Jacopo Buongiorno TEPCO Professor and Associate Department Head; Director, Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES)

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Richard de Neufville Professor

Institute for Data, Systems, and Society

Pablo Duenas-Martinez Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative

Esther Duflo Professor

Economics

Charles Fine Professor

Sloan School of Management

Abbas Ghandi Research Staff

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

Howard Herzog Senior Research Engineer

MIT Energy Initiative

David Hsu Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning

Janelle Knox-Hayes Associate Professor

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Urban Studies & Planning

Richard Lester Associate Provost and Professor

Office of the Provost

Jing Li Assistant Professor

Economics

Dharik Mallapragada Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative

Benjamin Olken Professor

Economics

Sergey Paltsev Senior Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

John Parsons Senior Lecturer

Sloan School of Management

Ronald Prinn Director and Professor

Center for Global Change Science; MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change

John Reilly Senior Lecturer

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Sloan School of Management

Roberto Rigobon Professor

Sloan School of Management

Apurba Sakti Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative

Harvey Sapolsky Professor Emeritus

Political Science

Richard Schmalensee Professor

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change; Sloan School of Management

Nestor Sepulveda

Nuclear Science and Engineering

Lawrence Susskind Professor

Urban Studies & Planning

Karen Tapia-Ahumada Research Scientist

MIT Energy Initiative

Bruno Verdini Lecturer of Urban Planning and Negotiation

Urban Studies & Planning

James Wescoat Professor

Architecture

Jinhua Zhao Assistant Professor

Urban Studies & Planning