Professor | Faculty Director, Energy Institute at Haas
Energy Institute
About
Meredith Fowlie is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, an affiliated professor at the Haas School of Business, and a faculty director at the Energy Institute at Haas. She holds the Class of 1935 Endowed Chair in Energy at UC Berkeley. She is also an affiliated faculty of the Energy and Resources Group, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Energy and Environmental Economics group.
Fowlie is an applied economist working at the intersection of industrial organization, energy markets, and environmental economics. Much of her work investigates how market-based environmental regulation—and emissions trading programs in particular—are working in practice. Fowlie is also interested in the demand side of energy markets and work that integrates methods and models from other disciplines into economic analysis of policy outcomes.
Her work has appeared in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and other academic journals.
- California’s undergrounding conundrum, Politico, 11/18/2025
- Surging power costs are putting the squeeze on customers, The Wall Street Journal, 11/01/2025
- Hunting for energy hogs with Severin Borenstein, Resources Radio, 10/21/2025
- Newsom signs climate, energy bills charting state course through perilous ‘mid-transition’, KQED, 09/19/2025
- California tightens carbon market to get deeper emissions cuts, E&E News , 09/19/2025
- Special episode: California insurance crisis: the state of the insurance industry, Capitol Weekly, 05/20/2025
- Utilities are planning to bury power lines after the LA fires. Should they?, LAist, 04/22/2025
- California Doubles Down on Key Emissions Program After Trump Calls It ‘Radical’, KQED, 04/16/2025
- California Democrats seek to balance climate with cost of living, NPR, 03/27/2025
- Costly wildfires imperil utilities accused of causing the spark, Washington Post, 01/19/2025
- How climate change is reshaping home insurance in California — and the rest of the U.S., NPR, 01/14/2025
- How is climate change impacting home insurance markets?, Brookings, 01/14/2025
- How is climate change impacting home insurance markets?, Brookings, 01/14/2025
- California lawmakers punt on chances to deal with utility bill crisis, Canary Media, 09/05/2024
- With soaring rates, dropped coverage, insurance crisis deepens in California, Xinhua News, 07/24/2024