Energy and the Environment Specialization
The specialization prepares students to help lead in developing a more equitable, efficient, and cleaner energy future.
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Graduates of the Energy Specialization will be prepared to work in a variety of areas, including, but not limited to, private sector energy firms, energy consultancies and renewable energy start-ups, energy service companies, international financial institutions and development agencies, government agencies, and environmental think-tanks.
Note that a capstone course used to fulfill the MEM capstone requirement cannot also be used toward fulfilling an MEM Specialization requirement; a capstone course taken once cannot be used to fulfill multiple requirements. Learn more about YSE capstone courses by visiting the MEM Capstone page.
Program Courses
Core
Two required courses.Course | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 | Fall | Spring |
ENV 800 Energy Economics and Policy Analysis |
Gillingham | |||
ENV 814 Energy Systems Analysis |
Rao |
Elective
Students must take at least one course from each of the following three bins:Energy Policy and Governance
Course | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 | Fall | Spring |
ENV 789 Energy and Development |
Rao | |||
ENV 816 Electric Utilities: an Industry in Transition |
Rhodes | |||
ENV 824 Environmental Law and Policy |
Klee | |||
ENV 840 Climate Change Policy and Perspectives |
Klee |
GLBL 230 Managing the Clean Energy Transition: Contemporary Energy and Climate Change Policy Making |
Energy Technologies and Industries
Course | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 | Fall | Spring |
ENV 716 Renewable Energy |
Oristaglio Tentative |
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ENV 773 Air Pollution Control (APC) |
Gentner | |||
ENV 884 Industrial Ecology |
Faculty |
CENG 377 Water-Energy Nexus |
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CHEM 505a Alternative Energy |
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ENAS 609 Nanotechnology for Energy |
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ENAS 755 Electronic and Optical Properties of Energy Materials |
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EENG 406b / ENAS 806b Photovoltaic Energy |
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G&G 274a Fossil Fuels and Energy Transitions |
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HSHM 201 Sustainable Energy: Physics and History |
Quantitative Methods for Energy Analysis
Course | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 | Fall | Spring |
ENV 635 Renewable Energy Project Finance |
Gross | |||
ENV 730 Environmental Data Science in R: Introduction to Data Integration and Machine Learning |
Malone | |||
ENV 758 Multivariate Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences |
Reuning-Scherer | |||
ENV 819 Measuring and Visualizing Urban Environments |
Salazar Miranda |
ECON 132 Econometrics and Data Analysis II |
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ECON 331 Economics of Energy and Climate Change |
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ECON 333 Energy and Environmental Economics |
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ECON 412 International Environmental Economics |
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ECON 545 Microeconomics (IDE) |
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ECON 558 Statistics and Econometrics (IDE) |
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ECON 550/551 Econometrics |
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MGT 842 Financing Green Technologies |
Additional Elective
Energy Analysis students are required to take one additional course. Students are encouraged to choose this course to develop an expertise in a particular area of study pertaining to energy and the environment. This course can be drawn either from the list above or from the following other energy-related courses at Yale.Note: ENV 612, “Transforming Global Value Chains for Sustainability: The Case of Fashion and Textiles” Can be used as an additional elective if the term project is in Energy. Approval by Prof. Rao is needed.
Energy and Society
AMST 236 American Energy History |
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ANTH 438 Culture, Power, Oil 2 |
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APHY 100 Energy, Environment, and Public Policy |
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EVST 296 Chernobyl: A History of Energy and the Environment |
Energy, Climate, and Health
Course | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 | Fall | Spring |
ENV 725 Water, Energy, and Food Interconnections in a Changing Climate |
Saiers |
Interdisciplinary
Course | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 | Fall | Spring |
ENV 894 Green Building: Issues and Perspectives |
Kops | |||
ENV 982 Bio-inspired Design and Engineering |
Zimmerman |
ARCH 4254 The (Built) Environment: environmental design and urban transformation in practice |

Learning Community
There is a corresponding “Learning Community” for each specialization, where anyone interested in the topic can find related news, spotlights, colleagues, and events.
Faculty Coordinator
Staff Manager
Julia Nojeim
Clean Energy Coordinator; Staff Manager, Energy and the Environment Learning Community