Energy prices have broken all-time records this year. This, together with the need to strengthen decarbonization efforts and the central role given to the energy transition by the recovery plans, make the analysis of energy and climate policies more relevant and exciting than ever before. Whereas there is consensus regarding the need to reduce carbon emissions, promote renewables, and improve energy efficiency, there is still controversy regarding the optimal choice of policies and market design to achieve those goals. Policies differ in their efficiency impacts (i.e., whether they induce higher or lower costs), but also on their effectiveness, feasibility, credibility and distributional implications (i.e., whether they create winners and losers).

The Barcelona School of Economics Intensive Course on Energy Transition: Economics and Policy will provide participants (whether economists, engineers, or lawyers, working for firms or in regulatory agencies) with a thorough understanding of the most recent economic insights to analyze the performance of actual and potential energy and climate policies. The course will mainly review the competition policy and market design issues that are likely to arise during the energy transition. The program’s faculty includes leading international scholars and practitioners with extensive experience of the application of economic techniques to designing and assessing the performance of energy and climate policies.