POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy
About the Conference:
The Energy Institute’s POWER conference on energy research and policy takes place every March on the UC Berkeley campus. Come to the POWER Conference to learn about exciting new research on energy markets and regulation from top tier scholars, and exchange ideas with energy policy and business professionals. The most recent POWER Conference took place on March 21, 2025.
Subscribe to our email or check back on this webpage in October 2025 for our POWER 2026 save the date and paper submission guidelines.
2025 POWER Conference
- The Customer Economics of Residential Building Electrification Under Alternative Rates
- Can Electric Vehicles Aid the Renewable Transition? Evidence from a Field Experiment Incentivising Midday Charging
- Power Flows, Part 2: Transmission Lowers U.S. Generation Costs, But Generator Incentives Are Not Aligned
- Gone with the Wind: Renewable Energy Infrastructure, Welfare, and Redistribution
- Greenhouse Gases Resulting from Grid-Connected Electricity Demand: Three Pillars and Scope Two
- Inframarginal Investments with Clean Energy Subsidies: Evidence from the Inflation Reduction Act
- Modeling Uncertainty in Climate Policy: An Application to the US IRA
2024 POWER Conference
- Customer Switching, Firm Entry and Regulatory Policy: Evidence from Retail Electricity Market Restructuring
- Competing for Inattention: Price Discrimination in Residential Electricity Markets
- Learning by Doing: Contractors’ Learning in Heat Pump Installations
- Unintended Consequences of Time-of-Use Rates: EV Charging and Distribution Network Constraints
- Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency: Evidence from Power Plants
- Are Renewable Generators Price Responsive?
- Wiring America: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Electricity Grid Expansion
- Risk-Cost Tradeoffs in Power Sector Wildfire Prevention
2023 POWER Conference
- Electricity Retail Rate Design in a Decarbonizing Economy: An Analysis of Time-of-Use and Critical Peak Pricing
- The Efficiency of Dynamic Electricity Pricing Schemes
- Rate of Return Regulation Revisited
- The Impact of CCAs on Decarbonization in California
- Transmission Impossible? Prospects for Decarbonizing the US Grid
- An Empirical Analysis of the US Generator Interconnection Policy
- Centralized vs Decentralized Demand Response: Evidence from a Field Experiment
- The Economics of Electricity Reliability
