


York University Students Earn First Prize at 2023 Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition
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...
Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition 2023 – Final Rounds
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...
Energy Access: Unconventional Solutions
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...
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Info Session: Energy Access at Duke
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...
Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition 2023
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...
The elusive quest for sustainable off-grid electrification: new evidence from Indonesia
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),...
To reduce in-home pollution, pay attention to improved ventilation
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,...
Phillips Appointed as Visiting Professor to Duke Kunshan University for Fall Semester
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...
Barriers and Policy Solutions for Off-Grid Energy Development
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...SETI 2022 WORKSHOP
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...
Understanding Gender and Energy Key to Sustainable Development Goals
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...
Robyn Meeks to join Harvard Business School as Business in Global Society visiting fellow
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...
Marc Jeuland receive prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for 2023-2024
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...
Bringing Water to Thirsty Fields With Help From the Sun
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...
SETI women talk about the energy-gender nexus
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...
Decentralized Renewable Energy: the unexpected engine of employment
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...
Global Assessment of Electricity in Healthcare Facilities
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...
Summer 2023 Energy Access Internships and Research Projects
Summer 2023 Energy Access Internships and Research Projects The Energy Access Project at Duke University (EAP) provides funding to students that will spend their summer conducting internships with companies, government agencies and non-profits, or supporting Duke...
Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition 2022
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...
Climate finance myth busting
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...
New Frontiers in Climate Finance
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...
Info Session: Energy Access at Duke
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...
How to Transition to a Clean Energy Future
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...
Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition 2022
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...
The secret of the energy transition: why solar will reshape global politics (and be bad for Putin)
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...
Distributed Renewable Energy-Agriculture Modalities (DREAM)
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...
Gendered time-use and improved cooking solutions
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...SETI 2021 Workshop
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...
Lunch + Learn: Riccardo Ridolfi, CEO & Co-Founder, Equatorial Power, Board Director, Umeme
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...
Is electrification enough without more infrastructure?
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...
JOBS ALERT: Policy Associate, Postdoc Researcher
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...
Taking the electric brake off African enterprise
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...
Improving the reliability of electricity supply: Valuation and policy implications
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...
New Project: Catalyzing Climate Finance for Low Carbon AgTech
New Project: Catalyzing Climate Finance for Low Carbon AgTech In partnership with the Shell Foundation and RMI, our latest project explores how investors and policymakers can overcome barriers to channeling climate finance to small AgTech...
Why Countries Just Can’t Quit Coal? New Research Offers Some Clues
< Back to SETI Media Why Countries Just Can’t Quit Coal? New Research Offers Some Clues Sied Jan Steckel is the Head of the Working Group on Climate and Development at the Mercator Insitute on Global Commons and Climate Change in Berlin. Jan, along with his...
Congrats 2021 Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition Winners!
Congrats 2021 Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition Winners! Graduate students from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford took first place in the ninth annual Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition at Duke University, developing business...Low Carbon Ag-Tech Mitigation Potentials by Market: Assumptions & Data
Low Carbon Ag-Tech Mitigation Potentials by Market: Assumptions & Data Solar irrigation pumps in Kenya: Based on installing 1.3 million solar water pumps (the addressable market through 2030, according to Mercy Corps 2020), and assuming that diesel pumps would be...
Catalyzing Climate Finance for Low-Carbon Ag-Tech
Catalyzing Climate Finance for Low-Carbon Ag-Tech Despite minimal contributions to causing climate change, rural households working in the agriculture sector are disproportionately impacted by climate-related shocks and see it as one of the biggest risks to their...
New Gift Honors Visionary, Expands Duke’s Efforts on Energy Access
New Gift Honors Visionary, Expands Duke’s Efforts on Energy Access 1 October 2021 In developing countries, access to modern energy has far-reaching effects on economic opportunity, well-being and even emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change....
Prepaid meters promise profits for African utilities but success hinges on consumer response
Prepaid meters promise profits for African utilities but success hinges on consumer response < All EAP @Duke blog posts October 2021 Thomas Klug, Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative Prepaid meters are sweeping the African continent as a life raft for...
Building Back Better Means Unleashing the Power of Women
Building Back Better Means Unleashing the Power of Women < All EAP @Duke blog posts September 2021 Victoria Plutshack, Energy Access Project @Duke Globally, an additional 47 million women are expected to fall into extreme poverty in 2021, particularly hitting women...
JOB ALERT: Energy Access Project Research Analyst
JOB ALERT: Energy Access Project Research Analyst EAP is hiring! This new role will focus especially on advancing the Modernizing Energy Access Finance and Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities work...
Energy Internship Program fuels Duke students’ summer learning
Energy Internship Program fuels Duke students’ summer learning Dozens of undergraduate and graduate students from across Duke University are taking deep dives into the energy industry this summer, thanks to the Energy Internship...
Student Blog: Mini-grid regulations for private investment
Student Blog: Mini-grid regulations for private investment June 2021 By Zoe Yang, Rajat Khandelwal, Jose Pumarejo Mini-grid regulations allowing private investment are necessary to reduce the energy access gap in sub-Saharan Africa. Regulation or No Regulation? ...
Net Zero may be coming. But America is a fossil fuel bank to the developing world today.
Net Zero may be coming. But America is a fossil fuel bank to the developing world today. < All EAP @Duke blog posts June 2021 Jonathan Phillips, Energy Access Project @Duke President Biden’s recently announced international climate finance plan is all about...
COVID-19 has exposed the carbon cost of innovation
COVID-19 has exposed the carbon cost of innovation < All EAP @Duke blog posts June 2021 Gabriel Davies, CrossBoundary The coronavirus pandemic caused the greatest global recession since the Second World War, and the largest ever annual decline in carbon emissions....
Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor
Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor < All EAP @Duke blog posts May 2021 Jörg Peters, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and Maximiliane Sievert, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research South Asia has made tremendous progress...