Energy policies help shape the energy sector.

Energy policies help shape the energy sector. Economic, political, environmental, and social factors influence their construction, implementation, and enforcement.As these policies change over time, they create varying degrees of incentives for the advancement of technology in the areas of energy production, transmission, and consumption. As such, to understand energy utilization you must not only understand energy policies, but also the factors that influence them and the results they produce. The goal of the Energy Policy Paper is to analyze how a given energy policy relates to energy utilization, both regionally and nationally.