My research primarily focuses on environmental and energy economics, with secondary interest in innovation economics and industrial organization. I am particularly interested in energy transitions and negative emission towards a Net Zero economy.
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Journal Publications
Journal Publications
Lazkano, I., Feng, S. and Ayasli, E. 2025. Does the Shale Gas Revolution Hinder Clean Energy Innovation? Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy, Vol. 14(1).
Feng, S. and Lazkano, I. 2025. Energy Storage and Clean Energy Transitions, Energy Policy, Vol. 198, 114447.
Feng, S. 2024. Do Market-based Environmental Policies Encourage Innovation in Energy Storage? Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Vol.26, 673-713.
Feng, S. and Lazkano, I. 2022. Innovation Trends in Electricity Storage: What Drives Global Innovation? Energy Policy, Vol. 167, 113084.
Blogs, Reports and Policy Briefs
Blogs, Reports and Policy Briefs
Serin, E., Burke, J., Feng, S., Read, M. and Suresh Kumar, R. July 2025. The Innovation Race on Geological Carbon Removal: Who is Best Placed to Lead? London: Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Feng, S., Arlinghaus, J., Stemmler, J., Fankhauser, S. and Smith, S. June 2025. Policy Pathways to Achieve Net-Zero Goals: A New Look at Carbon Dioxide Removal.
Feng, S., Stemmler, J., Arlinghaus, J., Fankhauser, S. and Smith, S. May 2025. Policy Evaluation and Selection to Accelerate Geological Carbon Dioxide Removal Deployment. CO2RE Policy Briefing.
Working Papers
Working Papers
A Taxonomy of Policies to Support Geological Carbon Dioxide Removal, with Johanna Arlinghaus, Joseph Stemmler, Sam Fankhauser and Steve Smith. Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Working Paper, University of Oxford, May 2025. Under review at WIREs Climate Change.
A Value-Chain Methodology for Constructing Patent Datasets for Complex and Emerging Technologies: Application to Geological Carbon Dioxide Removal. Under review at Research Policy.
Do EV Adoption Policies Boost Innovation in Energy Storage Technologies? Evidence from China, with Yi Han, Itziar Lazkano and Marlo Magno Vasquez Gozalez. Under review at Energy Economics.
A Strategic Framework for the Fossil Fuel Endgame, with Sam Fankhauser et al. Under review at Global Sustainability.
The transition away from fossil fuels needs reinvigorating. Here, we review available solutions to advance the fossil fuel endgame. We conclude that by deploying them strategically, a successful transition is possible and indeed likely. The transition must address eight strategic challenges. It requires a new understanding of prosperity, without fossil fuels, which is attractive to both energy consumers and fossil fuel-dependent communities; clear corporate standards to guide behaviour and the removal of imbalances in favour of fossil fuels. The transition itself must progress simultaneously on the demand side, with a sharp reduction in fossil fuel use, and the supply side, with the reallocation of capital and labour. Whatever fossil fuel sector remains must be net zero-aligned. Economically, this means adapting to reduced economies of scale and scope. Environmentally, it requires the capture and permanent storage of remaining emissions. For all the challenges, we identify tried and tested solutions.
Work in Progress
Work in Progress
Optimal Policy Sequencing for Large-Scale Deployment of Carbon Dioxide Removal, with Joseph Stemmler and Mark Workman.
Dynamics in Carbon Storage Innovation and Development on the Path to Net Zero.
Energy Innovation Trends in Chinese Listed Companies: An Analysis Using Directed Technical Change Model, with Itziar Lazkano and Yi Han.
Conference Presentations
Conference Presentations
Oxford Net Zero Workshop: Net Zero and Trade, November 2025, Oxford, UK.
Sustainable Future of BECCS Workshop, 2024, London, UK.
The 8th Canadian PhD and Early Career Workshop in Environmental and Resource Economics 2022, Ottawa, Canada
Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative 2021 Virtual Workshop
The 26th EAERE Annual Conference Berlin 2021
The 27th Ulvon Conference 2021
EAERE Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics 2021, Graz, Austria
2021 Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental and Energy Economics
The 38th Annual USAEE/IAEE North American Virtual Conference
Refereeing
Refereeing
Communications Earth & Environment
European Journal of Political Economy
Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy
Oxford Carbon Removal Budget Symposium Scientific Committee Member (April 2025 — July 2025)
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