Professor Díaz Anadón was awarded the XVII Fundacion Banco Sabadell Award for Economic Research for her work on the role of energy technology innovation and governments in climate change mitigation.
Professor Díaz Anadón works at the interface between economics and engineering. She received the Banco Sabadell Award, worth €30,000, for her work on climate change, a project that combines core research with the development of public policy to guide the work carried out by governments and international organisations. The award will be given out on October 2nd at the Banco Sabadell headquarters in Oviedo.
Professor Anadón's research uses optimisation models, econometric methods, and in a number of cases has supplemented quantitative assessments with qualitative evaluations based on interviews. In particular, she has carried out an in-depth investigation into policies and technologies in the countries with the highest volumes of greenhouse gas emissions – the United States and China. This project analyses how different methods of distributing funds in national laboratories influence the transfer of technology to energy companies, and evaluates the impact that different policies aimed at promoting wind power can have on wind turbine productivity.
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