Energy Workshop 2026 at CEMFI

EnergyEconLab at CEMFI hosted a new edition of the Energy Workshop in Madrid, continuing a collaboration that we organise every year on a rotating basis together with the Toulouse School of Economics, the Université libre de Bruxelles, and IAE-CSIC (Barcelona). This year’s workshop took place at CEMFI on 17–18 March 2026, bringing together leading researchers working on electricity markets, climate policy, transport, market integration, taxation, and regulation.

The programme combined short paper and long paper sessions, with participants from institutions including the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Aalto University, Toulouse School of Economics, ULB, University of Girona, CUNEF, University of Vienna, University of Navarra, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Ifo/LMU Munich, Paris School of Economics, and CEMFI. Topics ranged from dynamic electricity pricing, retail contract design and real-time pricing to water stress and nuclear supply, climate and industrial policy, charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, natural gas market integration, residential solar subsidies, transmission constraints and information in wholesale electricity markets.

The workshop reflects the shared goal of fostering a vibrant European research community in energy and environmental economics, while creating space for discussion between senior and junior scholars
across a wide range of topics relevant to the energy transition. We are very grateful to all speakers, participants and chairs for making this year’s edition such a stimulating and successful event.

We also gratefully acknowledge the support of our funding bodies: the European Research Council (ERC), Fundación Ramón Areces, and the Comunidad de Madrid, and all those at cemfi who helped us organize the
event.