by Liilnna Teji | Feb 3, 2025 | GLEAN, News, Student Opportunities
2025 Energy in Emerging Markets Career Trek in Washington, DC APPLY HERE The Global Energy Access Network (GLEAN) invites Duke students of all levels to apply for the 2025 Energy in Emerging Markets Career Trek to Washington, DC from February 27-28. Apply by Tuesday,...
by Joshua Wilson | Jan 21, 2025 | Stories, Student Opportunities
Summer 2025 Energy Access Internships and Research Projects The Energy Access Project at Duke University (EAP) provides funding to students that will spend their summer working on energy access or energy transitions in low- and middle-income countries with companies,...
by Liilnna Teji | Nov 15, 2024 | News, Student Opportunities
Graduate Student Teams from Around the World Compete to Address Energy Business Challenges in Emerging Markets Read more Teams from Syracuse, Duke and McGill universities were collectively awarded $15,000 for developing energy business models for Ugandan e-mobility...
by Liilnna Teji | Nov 8, 2024 | Event, Events, News, Student Opportunities
Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition 2024 – Final Rounds Register Join us for the 12th annual Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition, where finalist teams will present their innovative proposals for Zembo, an e-mobility leader in Uganda! Network with...
by Liilnna Teji | Oct 29, 2024 | Alix Peterson Zwane, News
How Can Energy Transitions Balance Growth, Decarbonization, and Human Development? watch recording In Case You Missed It… Catch up on a recent high-level discussion at the Nest Climate Campus during New York Climate Week, which explored the challenges faced by low-...
by Liilnna Teji | Sep 10, 2024 | News, Student Opportunities
Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition 2024 Register Registration is Now Open for Duke’s Annual Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition! Registration is free and open until 11:59 PM EDT on September 16th. Join students from top graduate programs worldwide for...
by Liilnna Teji | Jul 12, 2024 | News
Job Alert: Senior Policy Associate APPLY HERE About Duke University Duke University was created in 1924 through an indenture of trust by James Buchanan Duke. Today, Duke is regarded as one of America’s leading research universities. Located in Durham, North Carolina,...
by Liilnna Teji | May 23, 2024 | Jonathan Phillips, Liilnna Teji, Marc Jeuland, Modernizing Energy Access Finance, Projects
Resilience Monetization and Credits Initiative The Resilience Monetization and Credit Initiative (RMCI) aims to close the finance gap for those urgently needing climate adaptation finance by developing innovative methods to measure and monetize adaptation and...
by Liilnna Teji | May 3, 2024 | Dylan Munson, Jonathan Phillips, Liilnna Teji, Marc Jeuland, News, Rahel Bekele
CRISP 2024 Research Award EAP received a Duke Climate Research Innovation Seed Program (CRISP) award to research "Monetizing Resilience to Mobilize Climate Capital: Understanding the Value of Climate-Smart Agriculture in East...
by Liilnna Teji | Apr 30, 2024 | News
Energy Transformation: With Energy Justice for All Rewind and tune in to the panel featuring Christine Folch, Connel Fullenkamp, and Jonathan Phillips as they discuss Energy Justice, exploring the relationship between climate policies and human development goals....
by Liilnna Teji | Apr 10, 2024 | Alix Peterson Zwane, News
Meet Alix Peterson Zwane The Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability this month welcomed investor, social entrepreneur and innovator Alix Peterson Zwane, Ph.D., as the first executive in residence with the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project...
by Liilnna Teji | Apr 10, 2024 | News
The Emergence of ‘Resilience Credits’ Check out the NextBillion blog from Minister Rania Al-Mashat, Jyotsna Puri, and Jonathan Phillips laying out the measurement framework to support it. Share...
by Liilnna Teji | Mar 25, 2024 | SETI
SETI 2023 Workshop < Back to SETI home The Seventh Annual Meeting of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) – Virtual Sessions June 23-24, 2022 On June 23 – 24, 2022, SETI will meet for the virtual sessions of its seventh Annual Workshop on...
by Liilnna Teji | Mar 19, 2024 | Latin America & Caribbean, News
Quantifying Benefits of Accelerated Energy Access – Implications from the Energy Survey in Honduras and Haiti watch seminar here In Case You Missed It… The ESMAP Insights Webinar Series discusses the power of energy surveys as a tool for identifying policy...
by Liilnna Teji | Mar 1, 2024 | News, SETI
Call for Papers! SETI 2024 Annual Meeting The Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) invites submissions of papers and extended abstracts for its Ninth Annual Workshop, scheduled to be held virtually via Zoom from June 18-19, 2024. The deadline for...
by Liilnna Teji | Jan 6, 2024 | GLEAN, News, Student Opportunities
Energy in Emerging Markets Career Trek in Washington, DC APPLY HERE The Global Energy Access Network (GLEAN), in collaboration with the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project, is thrilled to announce the Energy in Emerging Markets Career Trek scheduled to take place in...
by Liilnna Teji | Dec 8, 2023 | Event, Events, Marc Jeuland, News
COP28: Resilience Monetization and Credit Initiative (RMCI) Catch the panel discussion on the Resilience Monetization & Credit Initiative featuring the Ministry of International Cooperation, IFAD, and Duke University's James E. Rogers Energy Access Project at...
by Liilnna Teji | Nov 8, 2023 | Building Equitable and Sustainable Energy Transitions, Clean Cooking, Marc Jeuland, News, Projects, Ryan McCord
Time-money tradeoffs and the value of the time that women spend obtaining firewood watch seminar here In Case You Missed It… Catch up on the inaugural Environment for Development seminar series featuring Marc Jeuland. Marc presented “Time-money tradeoffs and the...
by Liilnna Teji | Nov 7, 2023 | News, Student Opportunities
York University Students Earn First Prize at 2023 Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition Read more Three graduate students from York University in Toronto took first place in the finals of the 2023 Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition held Nov. 7 at Duke...
by Liilnna Teji | Oct 28, 2023 | Student Events
Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition 2023 – Final Rounds Register Watch the finalist teams in the 11th annual Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition present proposals for Okra, a Mesh-Grid solution company to expand their services in Sub-Saharan...
by Liilnna Teji | Oct 27, 2023 | Event, Events, Student Events, Student Opportunities
Energy Access: Unconventional Solutions Register Duke students are invited to join a session with Omer Bomba Mohammed, Managing Partner at Veritas Consulting. Omer will discuss the complexities of energy access challenges and cutting-edge solutions his firm is...
by Liilnna Teji | Oct 4, 2023 | Event, Events, Student Events, Student Opportunities
Info Session: Energy Access at Duke Register Students, staff, and faculty, are you interested in energy access? Join the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project to explore the exciting world of energy access work at Duke! Discover how you can get involved and make an...
by Liilnna Teji | Sep 5, 2023 | News, Student Opportunities
Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition 2023 Register Register by September 10, 11:59 p.m. EDT for the Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition at Duke University. We are excited to invite top graduate programs worldwide to compete in the 11th annual Energy in...
by Liilnna Teji | Sep 4, 2023 | EAP Blog, Jörg Peters, News
The elusive quest for sustainable off-grid electrification: new evidence from Indonesia < All EAP @Duke blog posts September 2023 Mike Duthie (Social Impact), Jörg Ankel-Peters (RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research), Carly Mphasa (Social Impact),...
by Liilnna Teji | Aug 29, 2023 | EAP Blog, Jörg Peters, Marc Jeuland, News
To reduce in-home pollution, pay attention to improved ventilation < All EAP @Duke blog posts August 2023 We find that improved household ventilation in rural Senegal can reduce kitchen pollution levels by a similar amount as upgrading fuel and stove technology,...
by Liilnna Teji | Aug 28, 2023 | Jonathan Phillips, News
Phillips Appointed as Visiting Professor to Duke Kunshan University for Fall Semester Jonathan Phillips, director of the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project at Duke University, will be a visiting associate professor at Duke Kunshan University (DKU) in China during...
by Liilnna Teji | Aug 7, 2023 | Africa, Electricity, Jonathan Phillips, Marc Jeuland, Off-grid, Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities, Projects, Solar
Barriers and Policy Solutions for Off-Grid Energy Development The falling costs of solar technology and development of new and more cost-effective battery technologies have made off-grid solutions the preferred least cost technology for electrification in many rural...
by Liilnna Teji | May 9, 2023 | SETI
SETI 2022 WORKSHOP < Back to SETI home The Seventh Annual Meeting of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) – Virtual Sessions June 23-24, 2022 On June 23 – 24, 2022, SETI will meet for the virtual sessions of its seventh Annual Workshop on...
by Liilnna Teji | Apr 6, 2023 | Ipsita Das, Marc Jeuland, News, Njeri Kara, P.P. Krishnapriya, Rajah Saparapa, Subhrendu Pattanayak, Thomas Klug
Understanding Gender and Energy Key to Sustainable Development Goals A new review published in Nature Energy examining more than 100 research articles concludes that despite the profound importance of and commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals for gender...
by Liilnna Teji | Apr 5, 2023 | News, Robyn Meeks
Robyn Meeks to join Harvard Business School as Business in Global Society visiting fellow Robyn Meeks will join Harvard Business School’s Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) as one of five visiting fellows conducting research projects related...
by Liilnna Teji | Apr 5, 2023 | Marc Jeuland, News
Marc Jeuland receive prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for 2023-2024 Marc Jeuland will work with leading African scholars at the Environmental-Economics Policy Research Unit (EPRU) and the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town (UCT). His teaching...
by Liilnna Teji | Mar 30, 2023 | Agriculture, Jonathan Phillips, Marc Jeuland, Mini-grids, News, Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities, Rahel Bekele
Bringing Water to Thirsty Fields With Help From the Sun On the latest episode from the Sanford’s Ways & Means podcast – Marc Jeuland, Jonathan Phillips, & Rahel Bekele discusses how solar mini-grid powered irrigation can change smallholder farmers' lives and the work...
by Liilnna Teji | Mar 17, 2023 | News
SETI women talk about the energy-gender nexus Listen to Victoria Plutshack, P. P. Krishnapriya, & Erin Litzow on women’s contribution to science in and different aspects of energy and gender in commemoration of this year's International Women's...
by Liilnna Teji | Feb 23, 2023 | EAP Blog, News
Decentralized Renewable Energy: the unexpected engine of employment < All EAP @Duke blog posts February 2023 Carolina Pan and Hannibal B. Tesfahunegn The decentralized renewable energy (DRE) sector, which includes small solar appliances as well as solar stand-alone...
by Joshua Wilson | Jan 16, 2023 | Africa, Case Study, Central Asia, COVID-19, East Asia & Pacific, Electricity, Grid, Harnessing Data and Modern Technology, Health Facilities, Integrated Utility Planning, Latin America & Caribbean, Mini-grids, News, Off-grid, Other, Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities, Projects, Quantitative, Solar Home Systems, South Asia, T. Robert Fetter, Victoria Plutshack
Global Assessment of Electricity in Healthcare Facilities Taking stock of available global data on health facility electrification United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, “Good Health and Well-being”, calls for the global community to come together to “ensure...
by Liilnna Teji | Nov 8, 2022 | News, Student Events
Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition 2022 Student teams from Cambridge, Presidio, and Duke win $15,000 at 2022 Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition Students from Cambridge Judge Business School, Presidio Graduate School, and Duke University’s Fuqua...
by Liilnna Teji | Oct 31, 2022 | EAP Blog, Jonathan Phillips, News
Climate finance myth busting < All EAP @Duke blog posts November 2022 Jonathan Phillips Climate finance to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) to help mitigate and adapt to climate change will be at the center of debate next week in Egypt at the 27th annual UN...
by Liilnna Teji | Oct 22, 2022 | Abhay Venkatesh Rao, Jackson Ewing, Jonathan Phillips, Liilnna Teji, Marc Jeuland, Modernizing Energy Access Finance, Policy, Projects, Victoria Plutshack
New Frontiers in Climate Finance Investment decisions made in low- and middle-income countries leading up to 2030 will determine whether low-carbon pathways out of poverty and climate vulnerability are possible for millions, and whether the next global surge in...
by Liilnna Teji | Sep 30, 2022 | Events, Student Events, Student Opportunities
Info Session: Energy Access at Duke Interested in energy access? Join the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project and your fellow students to learn more about the energy access work happening at Duke, and how students can get involved! Featuring presentations from...
by Liilnna Teji | Sep 22, 2022 | Jonathan Phillips, News
How to Transition to a Clean Energy Future What is delaying the transition to clean energy in the US? Listen to EAP’s Jonathan Phillips explaining policy and infrastructure requirements to attain net zero emissions goals during New York Climate Week on Cheddar...
by Liilnna Teji | Sep 6, 2022 | Student Opportunities
Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition 2022 Graduate students all over the world are invited to compete in the 10th Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition. The competition which is part of the Energy Week at Duke is organized by the MBA Energy Club at Duke’s...
by Liilnna Teji | Jul 15, 2022 | Blog Post, EAP Blog, Solar
The secret of the energy transition: why solar will reshape global politics (and be bad for Putin) < All EAP @Duke blog posts July 2022 Gabriel Davies and Matt Tilleard In 1893, a young German engineer, dismayed by the negative social and environmental effects of...
by Liilnna Teji | Jun 30, 2022 | Africa, Agriculture, Dhruv Jhaveri, Dylan Munson, Jonathan Phillips, Liilnna Teji, Marc Jeuland, Mini-grids, Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities, Projects, Rahel Bekele, Solar
Distributed Renewable Energy-Agriculture Modalities (DREAM) The Distributed Renewable Energy-Agriculture Modalities (DREAM) project was launched to demonstrate the viability of solar mini-grids for delivering improved irrigation services, greater agricultural...
by Liilnna Teji | Jun 17, 2022 | Appliances, Building Equitable and Sustainable Energy Transitions, Cookstoves, Gender, Marc Jeuland, Maya Chandrasekaran, Mengqi Li, P.P. Krishnapriya, Projects, Ryan McCord, Subhrendu Pattanayak
Gendered time-use and improved cooking solutions So far, the case for clean energy has been built around health and/or environmental benefits, generally neglecting the sizable benefits that clean energy can have on freeing women’s time and reducing drudgery. Women...
by Joshua Wilson | Jun 9, 2022 | SETI
SETI 2021 Workshop < Back to SETI home The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) June 17-19, 2021 On June 17 – 19, 2021, SETI will meet for its sixth annual workshop on global energy transitions research. The workshop...
by Joshua Wilson | Apr 26, 2022 | Student Opportunities
Lunch + Learn: Riccardo Ridolfi, CEO & Co-Founder, Equatorial Power, Board Director, Umeme Duke students are invited to join a lunch with Riccardo Ridolfi, CEO & co-founder of Equatorial Power and board director at African utility Umeme. You’ll hear...
by Liilnna Teji | Mar 20, 2022 | EAP Blog
Is electrification enough without more infrastructure? Grid electrification should be combined with complementary infrastructure for greater social and economic benefits < All EAP @Duke blog posts October 2022 Nicholas Kilimani, Edward Bbaale, Marc A. Jeuland A...
by Joshua Wilson | Mar 17, 2022 | News
JOBS ALERT: Policy Associate, Postdoc Researcher Come join us at Duke University with these two stellar opportunities to work on energy poverty/access & sustainable energy transitions! Policy Associate, James E. Rogers Energy Access Project Read More Postdoc...
by Joshua Wilson | Dec 16, 2021 | Africa, EAP Blog, Electricity, Mini-grids, Off-grid, Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities, Productive Use
Taking the electric brake off African enterprise Unreliable power has put the brakes on African businesses. Distributed energy offers a solution < All EAP @Duke blog posts December 2021 Yemi Gafaar, Tombo Banda, Gabriel Davies, and Matt Tilleard In a small village...
by Joshua Wilson | Dec 15, 2021 | Africa, Building Equitable and Sustainable Energy Transitions, EAP Blog, Electricity, Grid, Marc Jeuland, Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities
Improving the reliability of electricity supply: Valuation and policy implications < All EAP @Duke blog posts December 2021 Marc Jeuland, James E. Rogers Energy Access Project @ Duke & Tensay Hadush Meles, Economic and Social Research Institute The problem of...