Learn About the Energy Institute Past Events

Our events create an intense research environment, connecting academics, government organizations, and industry professionals who are interested in energy economics. Below is a list of the Energy Institute’s past events:

  • November 17, 2025: Energy Markets Workshop (Meredith Fowlie, UC Berkeley/NBER), Land Conservation and the Clean Energy Transition: Evidence from U.S. Wind and Solar Development
  • November 14, 2025: EEE Seminar (Conor Walsh, Columbia Business School), Growth, Firm Scale, and the Energy Intensity of Production
  • October 20, 2025: Energy Markets Workshop (Eugenie Dugoua, London School of Economics), Directed Technological Change and General Purpose Technologies: Can AI Accelerate the Clean Energy Innovation?
  • September 15, 2025: Energy Markets Workshop (Ryan Wiser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Retail Electricity Price Trends: What Do We Know? Where Are the Gaps?
  • May 19, 2025: Energy Markets Workshop (Severin Borenstein, University of California Berkeley), Drivers of Residential PV Adoption and Implications for Rate Reform
  • May 2, 2025: EEE Seminar (Veronica Jacome, Temple University), Smart Rationing: Designing Shortage Mechanisms for Extreme Events
  • April 28, 2025: Energy Markets Workshop (Veronica Jacome, Temple University), The 20th Century History of Reliability in the Western US
  • April 11, 2025: EEE Seminar (Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago), The End of Oil
  • April 4, 2025: EEE Seminar (Wolfram Schlenker, Harvard University), Empirical Tests of the Green Paradox for Climate Legislation
  • March 21, 2025: POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy
  • March 17, 2025: Energy Markets Workshop (Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Berkeley Lab), Interregional Electricity Transmission in the United States: Realized Savings and Opportunities for Increased Value, 2014 – 2023
  • February 24, 2025: Energy Markets Workshop (Jo Seel, Berkeley Lab), Empirical Trends in Utility-Scale Solar Deployment, Technology, Cost, Performance, PPA Pricing, and Value in the United States
  • November 20, 2024: EEE Seminar (Matthew Lewis, Clemson University), “Asymmetric Information Sharing in Oligopoly: A Natural Experiment in Retail Gasoline”
  • November 1, 2024: Webinar, “The Effects of ‘Buy American’: Electric Vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act”
  • September 19, 2024: Webinar, Do California Farmers Respond to Electricity Prices?
  • August 14, 2024: Webinar: The Role of Modal Substitution in Rebound Effects within US Freight Transportation
  • June 17, 2024: Energy Markets Workshop (Jim Sallee, University of California, Berkeley), The Trouble with Green Subsidies
  • May 13, 2024: Energy Markets Workshop (Pete Larsen, Berkeley Lab), Estimating the Economic Impact of Widespread, Long Duration Power Interruptions
  • April 15, 2024: Energy Markets Workshop (Ulrich Wagner, Mannheim/University of California, Berkeley), Charging Infrastructure and the Environmental Advantage of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
  • March 22, 2024: POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy
  • March 20, 2024: EEE Seminar (Will Rafey, University of California, Los Angeles), Conservation Priorities and Environmental Offsets: Markets for Florida Wetlands
  • March 11, 2024: Public Finance/EEE Seminar (Eric Ohrn, Grinnell College), Home Electrification Challenges: Panels, Peak Power and Pumping Heat
  • March 11, 2024: Energy Markets Workshop (Iain Walker, Berkeley Lab), Home Electrification Challenges: Panels, Peak Power and Pumping Heat
  • February 14, 2024: Webinar: Accelerating Transmission Expansion by Using Advanced Conductors in Existing Right-of-Way
  • February 12, 2024: Energy Markets Workshop (Dev Millstein Berkeley Lab), The Climate and Air Quality Benefits of Wind and Solar Generation in the United States, 2019 – 2022
  • January 22, 2024: Energy Markets Workshop (Meredith Fowlie and Cody Warner, University of California, Berkeley), Risk-Cost Tradeoffs in Power Sector Wildfire Prevention
  • December 4, 2023: Energy Markets Workshop (Duncan Callaway, University of California, Berkeley), Accelerating Transmission Expansion by Using Advanced Conductors in Existing Right-of-Way
  • November 13, 2023: Energy Markets Workshop (Will Gorman, Berkeley Lab), The Interconnection Dilemma: A Roadmap for Unlocking Queue Backlogs
  • October 25, 2023: EEE Seminar (Ulrich Wagner, University of Mannheim), Measuring the Health Effects of Implicit Air Pollution Trades on the European Carbon Market
  • October 23, 2023: Energy Markets Workshop (Jim Bushnell, UC Davis), Everyone’s Electricity Models are Wrong: Measuring Just How Wrong
  • September 18, 2023: Energy Markets Workshop (Julie Mulvaney Kemp, Berkeley Lab), Estimates of Transmission Market Value Using Empirical and Modeled Locational Marginal Prices
  • September 1, 2023: EEE Seminar (Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley), The Cost of Species Protection: The Land Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act
  • August 30, 2023: EEE Seminar (Meredith Fowlie, University of California, Berkeley), How Are Insurance Markets Adapting to Climate Change? Risk Selection and Regulation in the Market for Homeowners Insurance
  • August 7, 2023: Energy Markets Workshop (Andy Satchwell, Berkeley Lab), A Snapshot of EV-Specific Rate Designs Among U.S. Investor-Owned Electric Utilities
  • July 10, 2023: Energy Markets Workshop (Lucas Davis, University of California, Berkeley), The Economic Determinants of Heat Pump Adoption
  • June 12, 2023: Energy Markets Workshop (Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley), Energy Hogs and Energy Angels: What Does Residential Electricity Usage Really Tell Us?
  • May 8, 2023: Energy Markets Workshop (Jill Moraski and Amol Phadke, Berkeley Lab), The Missing ‘Transmission Peaker
  • March 24, 2023: POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy