Energy and Clean Technology

Energy and Environmental Markets

Topics include the drivers of supply and demand, organized spot and futures markets, market power and regulation, energy transportation and storage, environmental policy, climate change, innovation, and the energy transition.

Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance

This course is devoted to the financial and quantitative aspects of project finance. Students discuss energy/infrastructure markets and project development as it relates to financing and completing projects. Class time is also devoted to discussion of entrepreneurship in energy and resource industries.

Clean Energy Speaker Series

The Clean Energy Speaker Series gives students an introduction to a wide variety of topics in energy and sustainability, while also challenging students’ views of what can be achieved by innovative organizations and individuals. Industries covered include renewable energy generation and storage, industrial decarbonization, venture capital and accelerators, clean transportation, Big Tech, retail sustainability, and public policy.

Cleantech to Market

In Cleantech to Market (C2M) graduate students identify the most viable initial markets, prospective customers and partners, funding sources, and related strategies in low-carbon energy, green chemistry, food, and water technologies, covering both mitigation and adaptation.

Lucas Davis is the Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor at Berkeley Haas. His research focuses on energy and environmental markets, and in particular, on electricity and natural gas regulation, pricing in competitive and non-competitive markets, and the economic and business impacts of environmental policy. He teaches Energy and Environmental Markets.

The Energy Institute at Haas brings together research and curricular programs on energy business, policy, and technology commercialization to bridge the gap between the frontiers of economic and scientific energy research and the marketplace. EI@Haas runs a highly active blog, exploring everything from cap-and-trade and innovation to energy poverty.

The Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (BERC) is a student-led multidisciplinary network that connects students from multiple schools, programs, and labs at UC Berkeley. In addition to holding workshops on such topics as the future of transportation and designing for sustainability, and women in green industries, club offerings include the annual Energy Summit.

Students leverage the BERC experience and network, the Berkeley Haas Alumni Network, and the Career Management Group’s relationship manager and industry specialist for energy to pursue careers, with companies including Antora Energy, Avantus, Crusoe, ENGIE, Fervo Energy, Granular Energy, Microsoft Carbon Reduction Program and/or Energy & Sustainability, NextEra Energy and TerraPower.