Interest in electrically conducting metal organic frameworks is rapidly growing, motivated by the prospect of combining within a single material the highly ordered structure of inorganic materials with the tunable properties and low cost of organics. Furthermore, the structure-inherent nanoscale porosity of MOFs provides an ideal route to tuning the electronic properties of these materials with guest molecules without necessarily increasing structural disorder. These unique qualities make electrically conducting MOFs attractive for variety of applications in electronics, opto-electronics, sensing and energy storage/energy conversion applications. These qualities, however, also present significant challenges in interpretation and reproducibility of charge transport in MOFs. In my presentation I will discuss the strategies for achieving and controlling electrical conductivity in MOFs using examples from our group’s work on Guest@MOF conductors as well as recent results from the literature. In addition, I will discuss recent thermoelectric measurements which suggest that conducting MOFs may be useful in waste heat recovery applications.