Description
Conduct economic analysis of energy production, consumption, and markets across electricity, fuels, and renewable resources. Evaluate and quantify costs, benefits, incentives, risks, and system impacts of technologies, policies, and investments using economic principles, market modeling, and statistical techniques.
- • Prepare and deliver presentations on energy market analyses, policy impacts, and investment recommendations.
- • Monitor and analyze energy market, policy, and technology trends.
- • Interpret energy market indicators to assess system health, reliability, and affordability.
- • Identify and recommend cost-effective energy efficiency and decarbonization strategies for firms and utilities.
- • Quantify and communicate the economic impacts of energy and climate regulations.
- • Write technical reports or academic articles on energy economics and forecasts.
- • Develop economic impact statements for energy policies, resource plans, or infrastructure projects.
- • Prepare research proposals and grant applications for energy economics studies.
- • Assess fuel supply risks, resource depletion, and long-term system transition costs.
- • Develop systems for collecting, cleaning, and analyzing energy, price, and emissions data.
- • Plan energy economics research projects with budgets, goals, deliverables, timelines, and resource needs.
- • Build economic models, forecasts, and scenarios for electricity demand, fuel prices, and capacity expansion.
- • Collect and analyze data to compare energy policy or investment alternatives and their emissions and cost impacts.
- • Perform power system and energy market modeling, including dispatch, price formation, and integrated resource planning.
- • Study relationships among energy use, economic activity, emissions, and equity outcomes.
- • Research topics such as renewable integration, storage economics, alternative fuels, carbon pricing, and grid decarbonization.
- • Develop policy and program recommendations to achieve energy reliability and decarbonization goals cost-effectively.
- • Assess costs, benefits, and ratepayer impacts of energy projects, tariffs, incentives, and regulations.
- • Design market mechanisms and incentives to promote clean energy, efficiency, and demand response.
- • Teach courses or deliver trainings in energy economics or electricity market design.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
