Energy Policy Graduate Certificate
Examine how policy, markets, technology, and economics shape the energy systems that power communities and influence the future.
Program overview
Prepare to navigate today’s evolving energy landscape by developing the policy and analytical skills needed to evaluate complex energy decisions.
Why study Energy Policy?
The Energy Policy Certificate prepares students to evaluate the strategies and tradeoffs in energy policy decisions and to understand their impacts. Students are grounded in Baker core coursework on government, economics, and public policy, while the concentration combines the technologies, markets, economics, and real-world considerations of energy policy decisions. Students are prepared to assess how energy policies will impact the environment, energy reliability, energy costs, and various stakeholders in the policy process.
What can you do with a certificate in Energy Policy after graduation?
The Energy Policy certificate prepares graduate students to analyze energy policy decisions and assess their impacts on the environment, energy reliability, costs, and key stakeholders. Graduates may pursue positions with government agencies, energy companies, utilities, consulting firms, nonprofit organizations, and policy research institutions. Common entry-level roles include energy policy analyst, regulatory affairs specialist, sustainability analyst, government relations associate, and research associate.
Featured Courses
HBS 524 Energy Markets and Economics
Theoretical and empirical perspectives on individual and industrial demand for energy, energy supply, energy markets, and public policies affecting energy markets.
HBS 543 Energy Transitions
Energy technology and policy solutions for a growing population, increasingly industrialized world, expanding quality of life, limits of fossil fuel energy sources, and the increasing realization that renewable energy must be integrated into an energy system built around fossil fuels.
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