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The course provides the basic notions needed to understand the economic implications of energy choices: for example, the income generated by oil and gas, price instability, and the challenges associated with the reduction of fossil fuels consumption. Then, energy policies and the related tools for implementing them will be explored. Examples are environmental taxes and antitrust policies. The course will give special attention, on the one side, to the liberalization of network services (electricity and gas) and the related regulation, stressing the differences from the previous regulation under monopoly setting. On the other side, the link between the security of energy supplies and the prevention of climate change will be studied with highlightening the policies aimed at meeting the to goals.