Climate Change Research Fellow – Electricity Affordability - Center for Law, Energy & Environment - School of Law

3 Months ago

Berkeley, California, United States

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Job Description

The University of California, Berkeley is seeking a Climate Change Research Fellow focused on electricity affordability at the Center for Law, Energy & Environment. The role involves conducting research on utility programs, analyzing policies to reduce costs and meet clean energy goals, and convening experts for high-level meetings. Responsibilities include synthesizing research, supporting fellow mentorship, identifying funding opportunities, and representing CLEE to various audiences.
At Berkeley Law, we are committed to excellence in education and scholarship, as well as equality of opportunity. We believe we have a responsibility to use our substantial intellectual capital to help solve real-world problems and to create a more just society through clinics, research, and policy engagement. We believe that a Berkeley Law degree is a tool for change, both locally and globally, and that we should be educating the leaders of tomorrow. We maintain an environment that nurtures academic and personal growth, respects a diversity of ideas, and stimulates independent thought and critical reasoning.

The Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) is based at the UC Berkeley School of Law, which benefits from one of the leading environmental law programs in the nation. Building on UC Berkeley’s history of and commitment to research and public service, CLEE leverages the intellectual resources of Berkeley faculty and students in furtherance of applied research in a variety of environmental and energy law and policy areas. CLEE’s research priorities include combating climate change, advancing sustainable energy, addressing water allocation and management challenges, and sustaining healthy oceans, among other pressing environmental and energy challenges.

The electricity affordability research will involve will working with state government leaders and electricity grid experts to identify and address research needs for practical solutions that can help both advance clean energy goals and reduce electricity rates in California. The work will involve convening these experts and drafting background material and research support for identified solutions. Ultimately, these activities will culminate in a policy report and a communications campaign to disseminate the ideas.

Primary Responsibilities

The climate policy fellow will:
• Conduct research on electricity affordability, including:
• Analyze existing utility programs and legislative and agency policies to identify opportunities to reduce ratepayer costs and meet California’s climate and energy goals. This will include conducting interviews, literature review, and using other research approaches to assess the options.
• Based on outreach and other research, identify needed law and policy research questions.
• Synthesize existing and original research to develop and describe policies, tools, and frameworks that can advance electricity affordability and clean energy goals.
• Convene electricity experts and policy makers for high-level meetings to identify and assess policy options and needed research needs.
• Support other researchers, including meeting with research fellows to support research progress; providing fellow mentorship and professional development; and recruitment of new research fellows.
• Identify funding opportunities to expand CLEE’s research portfolio focused on electricity affordability and clean energy goals and provide input and support on proposal development.
• Represent CLEE to diverse audiences including policymakers, the media, and partner organizations.
• Support CLEE’s communication and outreach activities across a range of media and work products, including drafting op-eds and blog posts; materials for the CLEE website; contributing to newsletters, annual reports, and other organizational materials.

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