Our researchers explore critical issues and address challenges that have regional, national, and global implications.
About Our Research Grants
Each year, the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy awards grants ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 to support new research or supplement existing research in energy and climate policy.
We seek requests for proposals from University of Pennsylvania faculty, postdocs, and doctoral students for research projects in the areas of energy and climate policy that can leverage Penn research and support the advancement of our mission.
For questions about the research grants program, please email Angela Pachon.
Call for Research Proposals
The 2024-2025 call for grants is now open! Preference for our climate and energy policy grants will be given to the following topics:
- IRA and BIL Implementation and Evaluation
- Grid Oversight
- Offshore Wind
- Critical Mineral Supply
- LNG Exports
- Extreme Heat and Community Resilience
- PECO Collaboration
In addition to the climate and energy policy grants, the Carl H. Goldsmith Sustainable Agriculture Fund will award several grants ranging from $5,000 to $15,000, and one grant up to $50,000 to support new research or supplement existing research in agriculture and climate policy.
Deadline
Applications should be sent to Arwen Kozak (arwenk@sas.upenn.edu) by Friday, May 3, 2024.
Awarded Research Projects
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Research Areas |
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Researchers |
Keywords |
It’s Time for a Green Investment Treaty to Incentivize Climate-Aligned Foreign Direct Investment |
Markets & Regulation |
2023-2024 |
William Burke-White
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Finance & Investment, International |
Privately Owned Battery Storage: Reshaping the Utility Business Case |
Emerging Tech, Markets & Regulation |
2022-2023 |
Christian Kaps
|
Storage |
The Efficiency of Electricity Pricing Schemes |
Electricity, Markets & Regulation |
2021-2022 |
Arthur van Benthem
|
Finance & Investment |
Energy Transitions in Times of COVID19: Economic Crises and Time Horizons in Latin America |
Markets & Regulation, Climate |
2020-2021 |
Santiago Cunial
|
Covid-19, International |
Energy Policy When Households Face Credit Constraints: Evidence from India, Kenya, Mexico, and Brazil |
Markets & Regulation, Access & Equity |
2020-2021 |
Susanna Berkouwer
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Carbon Pricing, International, Subsidies |
Regulating Fuel Economy Standards |
Markets & Regulation, Fossil Fuels, Transportation |
2020-2021 |
Arthur van Benthem
|
Electric Vehicles, Emissions |
Do Government Loans Crowd Out Private Borrowing? |
Markets & Regulation, Climate |
2019-2020 |
Ben Keys
|
Finance & Investment, Risk |
The Politics of Carbon Taxes at the State Level |
Climate, Markets & Regulation |
2018-2019 |
Ioana Marinescu
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Carbon Pricing, Emissions, Politics, Regulation |
Endogenizing Fuel Price Risk (and Uncertainty) |
Electricity, Fossil Fuels, Markets & Regulation |
2018-2019 |
Steven Kimbrough
|
Electricity Markets, Finance & Investment, Risk |
Jump-Starting the Market: Subsidies and Firm Entry |
Markets & Regulation, Renewables |
2018-2019 |
Felipe Flores-Golfin
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Solar, Subsidies |
Unilateral Incentives to Self-Impose Emission Limits: Is There a Case for Pennsylvania and RGGI |
Climate, Markets & Regulation |
2017-2018 |
Mike Abito
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Electricity Markets, Emissions, Pennsylvania |
Oil and Growth: The Role of Commuting in Skill-Biased Technical Change |
Fossil Fuels, Markets & Regulation |
2017-2018 |
Nikolai Roussanov
|
Carbon Pricing, Labor, Oil & Gas, Regulation |
The Unforeseen Consequences of Regulations: How Past Regulations Affect the Adoption of Innovative Technologies in the Shale Gas Industry |
Markets & Regulation, Fossil Fuels |
2017-2018 |
Paul Décaire
|
Finance & Investment, Fracking, Oil & Gas, Regulation |
Energy in the Global Economy: History and Future |
Fossil Fuels, Markets & Regulation |
2017-2018 |
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
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Fracking, Oil & Gas |
Disasters in the Delta: Oil Spills, Externalities, and Militant Competition in Nigeria |
Fossil Fuels, Markets & Regulation |
2017-2018 |
Jonah Rexer
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International, Oil & Gas |