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Global Energy Outlook 2022: Turning Points and Tension in the Energy Transition

RFF's annual Global Energy Outlook report examines a range of projections for the global energy system, summarising key implications for global energy consumption, emissions, and geopolitics.

About the authors:

Daniel Raimi is a fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF) and a lecturer at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He works on a range of energy policy issues with a focus on tools to enable an equitable energy transition. The Fracking Debate, his first book, combines stories from his travels to dozens of oil and gas producing regions with a detailed examination of key policy issues, and is published by Columbia University Press as part of the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy book series (www.thefrackingdebate.com).

Erin Campbell is a research analyst at RFF. Her work focuses on the intersection of international climate and trade policy. She is a recent graduate of the University of Rochester where she earned a Bachelor of Science in environmental health and a Bachelor of Arts in economics.

Richard Newell is President and CEO of RFF. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the administrator of the US Energy Information Administration, the agency responsible for official US government energy statistics and analysis. Dr. Newell is an adjunct professor at Duke University, where he was previously the Gendell Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and founding director of its Energy Initiative and Energy Data Analytics Lab. he has also served as the senior economist for energy and environment on the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers and was previously a senior fellow and a board member at RFF.

Brian Prest is an economist and fellow at RFF specializing in climate change, oil and gas, and energy economics. Prest uses economic theory and econometric models to improve energy and environmental policies by assessing their impacts on markets and pollution outcomes. His recent work includes economic modeling of federal oil and gas leasing policies, including implementing carbon pricing into federal oil and gas royalties.

Seth Villanueva is a senior research analyst at RFF. His current work focuses on energy projection analysis for RFF’s annual Global Energy Outlook report as well as research on the regional and distributional effects of clean energy and climate policy. Villanueva graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2019 with a BA in economics and a minor in mathematics. At UCSB, he was an undergraduate Gretler Fellow research assistant studying the economic impact of scaled wind power generation.

Jordan Wingenroth is a research associate at RFF. Wingenroth graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in May 2019, with an MS in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. His work prior to joining RFF focused on terrestrial-aquatic ecological interactions, ecohydraulics, and aquatic biochemistry.

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