Area Leader

Professor Laura Diaz Anadon

Chaired Professor of Climate Change Policy

Several members of C-EENRG pursue research agendas on different aspects of climate change and energy policy, including i) clean technology innovation; ii) public policy and institutions in the climate and energy space; and iii) the coupling of food, water and energy systems and its implications for policy-making.

Some of the research initiatives led by C-EENRG members in this area include:

Governing the Energy Transition
Understanding the Food-Energy-Water Nexus: the BRIDGE project
Innovation pathways, strategies and policies for the Low-Carbon Transition in Europe (INNOPATHS)
Co-location of manufacturing and innovation: drivers and impacts of technological innovation along the wind energy global value chain
What factors drive innovation in energy technologies? The role of technology spillovers and government investment

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Representative recent publications:

Penasco, C., Anadon, L. D., & Verdolini E. (2021). Systematic review of the outcomes and trade-offs of ten types of decarbonization policy instruments. Nature Climate Change

Diezmartinez, C.V. (2021). Clean energy transition in Mexico: Policy recommendations for the deployment of energy storage technologies. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 135, 110407

Goldstein, AP., Doblinger, C., Baker, E., Anadon, LD. (2020). Patenting and business outcomes for cleantech startups funded by ARPA-E. Nature Energy 5:803-810

Probst, B., Anatolitis, V., Kontoleon, A., Anadon, LD. (2020). The short-term costs of local content requirements in the Indian solar auctions. Nature Energy

Surana, K, Doblinger, C, Anadon, LD, Hultman, N. (2020). Effects of technology complexity on the emergence and evolution of wind industry manufacturing locations along global value chains. Nature Energy 5: 811-821

Li, D., Heimeriks, G. and Alkemade, F. (2020). The emergence of renewable energy technologies at country level: relatedness, international knowledge spillovers and domestic energy markets. Industry and Innovation 27(9): 991-1013

Knobloch, F., Hanssen, S., Lam, A. et al. (2020). Net emission reductions from electric cars and heat pumps in 59 world regions over time. Nature Sustainability.

Lee, J., Bazalian, M., Sovacool, B., Hund, K., Jowitt, S.M., TP, N., Kah, M., Greene, S., Galeazzi, C., Awuah-Offei, K. and Moats, M., 2020. Reviewing the material and metal security of low-carbon energy transitions. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews

Hoppmann, J., Diaz Anadon, L., & Narayanamurti, V. (2020). Why matter matters: how technology characteristics shape the strategic framing of technologies. Research Policy, vol 49 (1), 103882.

Doblinger, C, Surana, K, Anadon, LD. ‘Governments as partners: the role of alliances in U.S. cleantech startup innovation.’ Research Policy (2019):48(6); 1458-1475

Larcom, S., She, P.-W. & van Gevelt, T. (2019). The UK summer heatwave of 2018 and public concern over energy security. Nature Climate Change

Meng, J, Zhang, Z, Mi, Z, Anadon, LD, Zheng, H, Zhang, B, Shan, Y, Guan, D. ‘The role of intermediate trade in the change of carbon flows within China’. Energy Economics (2018) 76:303-312.

Huenteler, J, Tang, T, Chan, G, Anadon, LD. ‘Why is China’s wind power generation not living up to its Potential?.’ Environmental Research Letters (2018) 13: 044001. Doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaadeb

Verdolini, E, Anadon, LD, Baker, ED, Bosetti, V, Reis, L. ‘Future prospects for energy technologies: insights from expert elicitations.’ Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (2018). https://doi.org/10.1093/reep/rex028.

Chan, G, Goldstein, AP, Bin-Nun, A, Anadon, LD, Narayanamurti, V. Six principles for energy innovation. Nature (2017) 552:25-27

Li, Z, Siddiqi, A, Anadon, LD, Narayanamurti, V. ‘Towards sustainability in water-energy nexus: Ocean energy for seawater desalination.’ Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews (2017). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.10.087

Anadón, L. D., Baker, E. & Bosetti, V. Integrating uncertainty into public energy research and development decisions. Nat. Energy 2, 17071 (2017).

Anadon, LD, Chan, G, Harley, A, Matus, K, Moon, S, Murthy, S, Clark, W. “Making Innovation Work for Sustainable Development”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. vol. 113 no. 35, 9682–9690. (2016).

Anadon, LD, Chan, G, Bin-Nun, A, Narayanamurti, V. ‘The pressing energy innovation challenge of the U.S. national labs.’ Nature Energy (2016) 1:16117. doi:10.1038/nenergy.2016.117.

Surana, K, Anadon, LD. ‘Public Policy and Financial Resource Mobilization in Developing Countries: a Comparison of Approaches and Outcomes in China and India .’ Global Environmental Change (2015) 34:340-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.10.001.

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