Energy, Policy and Markets

A deep understanding of economics is critical to balancing the need for reliable, affordable energy with the need for a stable climate and clean environment. Economics drives smart policies that help to balance the climate and growth challenge. Smart policies shape markets that unleash technologies ready to scale and thrive.

For more than a decade, the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) has brought together world-leading scholars who are uncovering the policies needed to ensure energy markets provide access to reliable, affordable energy needed for growth, while limiting emissions that cause climate change and damages to our health and environment. This work has fostered field-defining research for more than a decade that identifies policy-relevant solutions in the United States and around the world—from laying out how grid expansion boosts renewables and clean energy tax credits lower electricity prices to showing how climate financing holds off migration and encourages adaptation and corporate disclosure rules reduce emissions. EPIC today ranks among the leading energy and climate research institutions globally. EPIC today ranks among the leading energy and climate research institutions globally, and its capabilities are poised to expand under this institute.

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