Energy and Resources Group

University of California, Berkeley

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Overview

The Energy and Resources Group (ERG) is an interdisciplinary academic unit of UC Berkeley, offering Minor, M.A., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Energy and Resources, and a Minor/Certificate in Sustainability. Established in 1973, ERG addresses issues of energy, climate change, resources, development, human and biological diversity, environmental justice, governance, and new approaches to economics, food, waste, and consumption. 

The faculty of ERG consists of ten core professors of energy and resources, plus 200 affiliated faculty and researchers from across the Berkeley campus, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and elsewhere. 

There are approximately 65 graduate students enrolled in ERG degree programs, about half doctoral students. The students come from a wide variety of backgrounds — engineering, natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The characteristics they have in common are an interest in interdisciplinary approaches to energy and resource issues and the intellectual credentials to succeed in a rigorous academic program. All receive training at ERG in the technological, environmental, economic, and sociopolitical dimensions of energy and resource issues while pursuing additional course work and individual research tailored to their interest and backgrounds.

ERG graduates are employed across the U.S. and around the world in universities, governmental and international agencies, legislative staff positions, national laboratories, public and private utilities, other energy and resource companies, consulting firms, and public-interest organizations.

Undergraduate Program

Energy and Resources: Minor

Sustainability: Summer Minor and Certificate

Graduate Programs

Energy and Resources: MA, MS, PhD, Concurrent ERG/Public Policy MA and MS

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