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 |
Sort by Year |
Researchers |
Keywords |
Contemporary Trends in European Energy Security, Critical Infrastructure Protection, and Russia Energy Sanctions Enforcement |
Fossil Fuels |
2023-2024 |
Benjamin Schmitt
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Energy Security, International, Politics |
Philadelphia’s Energy Transitions: A Short History |
Fossil Fuels, Renewables |
2021-2022 |
Jared Farmer
|
Pennsylvania |
Regulating Fuel Economy Standards |
Markets & Regulation, Fossil Fuels, Transportation |
2020-2021 |
Arthur van Benthem
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Electric Vehicles, Emissions |
Fossil Fuels, the Building Industry, and Human Health |
Cities & Buildings, Fossil Fuels |
2018-2019 |
Franca Trubiano
|
Environment, Public Health |
Repowering Ulaanbaatar: Urbanization after Coal |
Fossil Fuels, Electricity |
2018-2019 |
Nicholas Pevzner, Stephanie Carlisle
|
Coal, International, Public Health |
Fracking and Indigenous Demands in the South of Argentina |
Access & Equity, Fossil Fuels |
2018-2019 |
Tulia Falleti
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Fracking, International, Land Management, Natural Resources |
Endogenizing Fuel Price Risk (and Uncertainty) |
Electricity, Fossil Fuels, Markets & Regulation |
2018-2019 |
Steven Kimbrough
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Electricity Markets, Finance & Investment, Risk |
Pennsylvania’s Changing Coal Economy |
Fossil Fuels, Access & Equity |
2017-2018 |
Christina Simeone, DeShaun Bennett, Theodora Okiro
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Coal, Labor, Pennsylvania |
Oil and Growth: The Role of Commuting in Skill-Biased Technical Change |
Fossil Fuels, Markets & Regulation |
2017-2018 |
Nikolai Roussanov
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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
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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
|
International, Oil & Gas |
Preemption, Contracting Frictions and Investment Efficiency in Shale Gas Extraction |
Fossil Fuels, Climate |
2017-2018 |
Aymeric Bellon, Tong Liu
|
Environment, Natural Resources, Oil & Gas |
Electric Motorcycles for the Motorcycle City |
Transportation, Fossil Fuels |
2014-2015 |
Erick Guerra
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Electric Vehicles, International, Subsidies |
Airline Fuel Loading: Existing Airline Practices and Future Federal Regulations |
Transportation, Fossil Fuels |
2014-2015 |
Megan Ryerson, Mark Hansen
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Aviation, Emissions, Regulation |