EnergyEconLab brings together a group of researchers committed to carrying out rigorous policy-relevant research in the area of Energy and Environmental Economics.
Using sound theoretical, empirical, and simulation tools, researchers at EnergyEconLab explore market design and policy issues that arise in the transition to a low carbon economy. EnergyEconLab is based at CEMFI, and has various links with researchers worldwide.
Research lines
Demand Flexibility
Assessing the efficiency and distributional consequences of dynamic electricity pricing.
Renewables
Studying the market impact of renewable energies. Designing policies to induce efficient investments in renewables.
Electricity Market Simulations
Simulating electricity market outcomes to identify the effects of policy and structural changes.
Health and Social Impacts
Understanding how cleaner energy can improve health and impact human behavior.
Energy Efficiency
Exploring whether energy efficiency programmes deliver, and how to make them work better.
Storage
Understanding the effects of regulation and market structure on storage decisions.
Distributional Impacts
Providing novel evidence of the distributional implications of Energy Transition policies.
Green Finance
Integrating climate risk into policy frameworks and decision-making processes.
Sustainable Mobility
Investigating the effectiveness of various policies towards sustainable urban mobility.
Projects
ENERGY-IN-TRANSITION is an ERC Advanced Grant funded project led by Natalia Fabra at CEMFI. Its main objective is to analyze the socio-economic challenges and opportunities that emerge as the energy transition moves forward.
ENERGY-IN-TRANSITION will lead pioneering research on the redesign of electricity markets and the regulation of green hydrogen. It will also explore the distributional impacts of energy transition policies, offering new evidence on local effects and proposing solutions to mitigate their potentially regressive consequences. The project will develop innovative theoretical models to evaluate energy transition policies, providing a robust framework to support rigorous empirical analysis. The project is based at CEMFI and it will run until June 2030.
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