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This course will provide students with applied training in developing strategies to advance energy policy in a real-world context using the opportunity provided by the transition from one President’s Administration to the next that occurs only every four- to eight-years. Students will select (or be assigned) and area of energy policy for which they will, with guidance from the instructor and experts associated with the Johns Hopkins University, develop and recommend strategies to the incoming Administration that advance the United States transition to clean and secure energy future. Recommended strategies will be specific and practical actions to be undertaken by the incoming Administration. Each student will produce a paper summarizing and justifying their recommended strategies. A “JHU Energy Strategies Transition Report” will be developed from the collected results and provided to the transition team of the President-elect following the election of November 8, 2016 and to individuals participating shaping the energy policies of the next Administration. One or more open forums to present recommended strategies to faculty and other students will held to enable students to get feedback on their work. Areas that will be addressed may include, along with other areas: balancing different energy sources, modes of transportation and distribution, uses, ownership and governance; specific agencies such as the Department of Energy including FERC, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Interior, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, etc.; activities related to utilities such as the future of the Clean Power Plan, integrating higher levels of electricity from renewable sources, the “smart grid”, energy storage, net metering, etc.; policies affecting coal, petroleum and natural gas; nuclear energy; hydroelectricity, wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewables; energy policies related to climate change such as carbon markets, trading and pricing,