La Follette School faculty member Greg Nemet is one of only 35 recipients of the 2017 Andrew Carnegie fellowship. Nemet, an associate professor, will receive funding to support his research and writing on how a diverse set of policies and international-knowledge flows have led to inexpensive solar energy.

“I am extremely grateful to receive this tremendous honor,” said Nemet, who also serves on the faculty for the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “I have been excited about this project since I wrote the proposal and am, thus, delighted to be able to now devote considerable effort to it.”

Nemet has been working on various aspects of the costs of solar energy for the past 15 years. However, he felt that neither he nor anyone else has been able to comprehensively answer the question – How did Solar Become Inexpensive?