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

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...
Global Assessment of Electricity in Healthcare Facilities

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...
Climate finance myth busting

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...
Distributed Renewable Energy-Agriculture Modalities (DREAM)

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

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...
JOBS ALERT: Policy Associate, Postdoc Researcher

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...
Improving the reliability of electricity supply: Valuation and policy implications

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

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...
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

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

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...
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.

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...
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

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...
New Blog! Solar technologies can speed up vaccine rollout in Africa. Here’s how.

New Blog! Solar technologies can speed up vaccine rollout in Africa. Here’s how.

New Blog! Solar technologies can speed up vaccine rollout in Africa. Here’s how. The success of national vaccine distribution efforts depends on a functional cold chain. EAP's Rob Fetter shared how solar can be a part of the solution in The...
New Working Paper: Electrification to Grow Manufacturing? Evidence from Nepal

New Working Paper: Electrification to Grow Manufacturing? Evidence from Nepal

New Working Paper: Electrification to Grow Manufacturing? Evidence from Nepal In the inaugural working paper of our new series, Robyn Meeks and co-authors explore the impacts that access to electricity through microhydro in Nepal has on labor and...
Listen now! Balancing Competition & Subsidy: Mini-Grid Incentives Programs in Africa Webinar

Listen now! Balancing Competition & Subsidy: Mini-Grid Incentives Programs in Africa Webinar

Listen now! Balancing Competition & Subsidy: Mini-Grid Incentives Programs in Africa Webinar What can we learn from countries trying to scale mini-grid deployment? In this webinar, hear early lessons from Africa in the latest report from the Energy Access Project...
Taking the electric brake off African enterprise

Lessons for Modernizing Energy Access Finance

Lessons for Modernizing Energy Access Finance A modern energy system requires modern energy finance. This on-going series explores the ways in which we can learn from how energy access has been financed in the past to build a better, more equitable future. Part One:...
New Blog! Lessons from the proliferating mini-grid incentive programs in Africa

New Blog! Lessons from the proliferating mini-grid incentive programs in Africa

New Blog! Lessons from the proliferating mini-grid incentive programs in Africa As governments put in place incentives to scale up mini-grid deployment, our team has reviewed 20 mini-grid programs in sub-Saharan Africa, in order to pull out some initial...
New Report! Business model innovations for utility and mini-grid integration: Insights from the Utilities 2.0 initiative in Uganda

New Report! Business model innovations for utility and mini-grid integration: Insights from the Utilities 2.0 initiative in Uganda

New Report! Business model innovations for utility and mini-grid integration: Insights from the Utilities 2.0 initiative in Uganda As a wave of decentralised renewable energy (DRE) technologies and business models are changing the energy service delivery landscape,...
What COVID-19 has cost the climate

What COVID-19 has cost the climate

What COVID-19 has cost the climate Climate talks like the annual Conference of the Parties (COP) have led to many climate successes; informal conversations between international stakeholders at COP can become leverage for policy change at home, as seen in the case of...
Watch: A Wider Lens on Energy – Adapting Deep Learning Techniques to Inform Energy Access Decisions

Watch: A Wider Lens on Energy – Adapting Deep Learning Techniques to Inform Energy Access Decisions

Watch: A Wider Lens on Energy – Adapting Deep Learning Techniques to Inform Energy Access Decisions In this webinar, an interdisciplinary team of Duke University students and faculty describe their Bass Connections project to use satellite imagery and...
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