Peter Fox-Penner

Chief Impact Officer, Energy Impact Partners
Co-Founder, Impact Measurement & Allocation Program

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Dr. Fox-Penner is a Senior Fellow and Founding Director (2016-2021) of the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy (now the Institute for Global Sustainability). His most recent book is Power after Carbon: Building a Clean, Resilient Grid (May 2020). His research and writing interests are in the areas of electric power strategy, regulation, and governance; energy and climate policy; sustainable energy and sustainable finance; and the relationships between public and private economic activity. In addition, he is a Partner and Chief Strategy Officer of Energy Impact Partners, one of the largest dedicated clean energy private equity fund groups in the world, and an academic advisor to The Brattle Group, an economic consulting firm where he served for over two decades as principal and chairman. He is on the global leadership council of the World Resources Institute and on the advisory boards of Mobility Impact Partners, and the National Regulatory Research Institute’s Training Initiative. He is also affiliated with the Energy Futures Initiative. He formerly served as a senior official at the U.S. Department of Energy and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Selected Publications:

1. Assessing the Potential for US Utility Green Bonds, With Tan Lam and Jennifer Hatch, May 2019.  Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy, Boston MA.
2. Energy Impact Partners ESG and Impact Performance 2020. Energy Impact Partners, New York NY November, 2020.