Sanya Carley
Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy & City Planning
Mark Alan Hughes Faculty Director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy
Stuart Weitzman School of Design
102 Meyerson Hall
210 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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Dr. Sanya Carley is Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, and the Mark Alan Hughes Faculty Director of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. She holds secondary appointments at the Wharton School and the School of Social Policy and Practice. She also co-directs the Energy Justice Lab and is a University Fellows at Resources for the Future.
Dr. Carley’s research focuses on energy justice and just transitions, energy insecurity, electricity and transportation markets, and public perceptions of energy infrastructure and technologies. With the Energy Justice Lab team, she built and maintains the Utility Disconnection Dashboard. Dr. Carley is an author of the Fifth National Climate Assessment report and a member of the Innovation Policy Forum and the Roundtable on Macroeconomics and Climate-related Risks and Opportunities, respectively, for the National Academies. She also serves as Vice President of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM).
Prior to her appointment at Penn, Dr. Carley was a Paul H. O’Neill Professor at Indiana University, and held administrative positions there as a Chair, Program Director of the top-ranked Master of Public Affairs program, and as an Associate Vice Provost of Faculty & Academic Affairs. Before academia, she worked at the World Bank Group and as a consultant.
Education
Ph.D., Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.S. Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Graduate Certificate, Energy Analysis and Policy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A. Economics, Swarthmore College
B.A. Sustainable Development, Swarthmore College
Select Publications
Yozwiak, M., Barbose, G., Carley, S., Montanes, C.C., Forrester, S., Konisky, D., Memmott, T., O’Shaughnessy, E. 2025. Residential solar’s effect on household energy insecurity. Forthcoming in Nature Energy.
Helmke-Long, L., Davicino, A., Carley, S., Murphy, C. 2025. Integration of equity into climate-related plans in the U.S. Climate Policy.
Carley, S., Bensal, S., Kahn, P., Harak, C., Konisky, D., Simon, K. 2024. The electricity cost burden of durable medical equipment in the United States. Scientific Reports.
Memmott, T., Konisky, D.M., Carley, S. 2024. Assessing demographic vulnerability and weather impacts on utility disconnection in California. Nature Communications.
Adams, J., Carley, S., Konisky, D. 2024. Utility assistance and pricing structures for energy impoverished households: A review of the literature. The Electricity Journal.
Baker, E., Carley, S., Castellanos, S., Nock, D., Bozeman, J., Konisky, D.M., Monyei, C., Shah, M., Sovacool, B. 2023. Metrics for decision-making in energy justice. Annual Review of Environment and Resources.
Memmott, T., Carley, S., Graff, M., Konisky, D.M. 2023. Utility disconnection protections and the incidence of energy insecurity in the United States. iScience.
Silva, J., Carley, S., Konisky, D.M. 2023. “I earned the right to build the next American car”: How U.S. auto workers confront the energy transition and the shift to electric vehicles. Energy Research & Social Science.
Carley, S., Graff, M., Konisky, D., Memmott, T. 2022. Behavioral and financial coping strategies among energy insecure households. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Raimi, D., Carley, S., Konisky, D.M. 2022. Mapping county-level vulnerability to the energy transition in U.S. fossil fuel communities. Scientific Reports.
Sovacool, B.K., Newell, P., Carley, S., Fanzo, J. 2022. Equity, technological innovation and sustainable behavior in a low-carbon future. Nature Human Behavior.