Energy and the Environment Specialization

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.

Program Courses

Core

Two required courses.

Course	Fall 2022	Spring 2023	Fall 2023	Spring 2024
ENV 800 Energy Economics and Policy Analysis		Gillingham M,W 1:00-2:20		Faculty
ENV 814 Energy Systems Analysis	Rao M,W 9:00-10:20		Rao

Elective

Students must take at least one course from each of the following three bins:

Energy Policy and Governance

Course	Fall 2022	Spring 2023	Fall 2023	Spring 2024
ENV 789 Energy and Development	Rao Tu 1:00-3:50
ENV 816 Electric Utilities: an Industry in Transition	Reilly Tu 2:30-5:20		Reilly
ENV 824 Environmental Law and Policy		Klee M,W 1:00-2:20	Klee
ENV 840 Climate Change Policy and Perspectives	Klee M,W 2:30-3:50		Klee

Energy Technologies and Industries

Course	Fall 2022	Spring 2023	Fall 2023	Spring 2024
ENV 716 Renewable Energy		Oristaglio M,W 9:00-10:15		Tentative
ENV 773 Air Pollution Control (APC)	Gentner M,W 2:30-3:45		Gentner Tentative
ENV 785 Material Flow Analysis for the Circular Economy		Miatto Tu,Th 2:30-3:50		Tentative tbd
ENV 884 Industrial Ecology	Miller M,W 1:00-2:20		Faculty Tentative
G&G 274a Fossil Fuels and Energy Transitions
CHEM 505a Alternative Energy
ENAS 609 Nanotechnology for Energy
EENG 406b / ENAS 806b Photovoltaic Energy

Quantitative Methods for Energy Analysis

Course	Fall 2022	Spring 2023	Fall 2023	Spring 2024
ENV 635 Renewable Energy Project Finance		Gross Tu,Th 9:00-10:20		Gross
ENV 753 Regression Modeling of Ecological and Environmental Data	Gregoire M,W 10:30-11:50		Gregoire
ENV 758 Multivariate Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences		Reuning-Scherer Tu,Th 1:00-2:15		Reuning-Scherer
ENV 803 Green Markets: Voluntary and Information Based Approaches to Environmental Management			Kotchen
ECON 331 Economics of Energy and Climate Change
ECON 412 International Environmental Economics
ECON 545 Microeconomics (IDE)
ECON 558 Statistics and Econometrics (IDE)
ECON 132 Econometrics and Data Analysis II
ECON 550/551 Econometrics
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:

Energy and Society

ANTH 438 Culture, Power, Oil 2

Energy, Climate, and Health

Course	Fall 2022	Spring 2023	Fall 2023	Spring 2024
ENV 608 Air Pollution and Public Health		Faculty W 10:00-11:50	Faculty Tentative
ENV 725 Water, Energy, and Food Interconnections in a Changing Climate		Saiers M,W 2:30-3:50
ENV 855 Climate Change Mitigation in Urban Areas (Dates TBD)				Seto
ENV 898 Environment and Human Health				Bell

Interdisciplinary

Course	Fall 2022	Spring 2023	Fall 2023	Spring 2024
ENV 894 Green Building: Issues and Perspectives	Kops Th 9:00-11:50		Kops Tentative
ENV 982 Green Engineering and Sustainability		Zimmerman Tu,Th 9:00-10:15