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 Victoria Plutshack | 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 | Feb 14, 2022 | Stories, Student Opportunities
Summer 2022 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...
by Victoria Plutshack | 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 Victoria Plutshack | 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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Nov 19, 2021 | Modernizing Energy Access Finance, News, Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities
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...
by Tommy Klug | Nov 18, 2021 | Podcast, SETI
< 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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Nov 15, 2021 | News
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Oct 22, 2021 | Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Oct 22, 2021 | Abi Vanover, Africa, Agriculture, Electricity, Electricity, Impact Evaluation, Jonathan Phillips, Marc Jeuland, Modernizing Energy Access Finance, Off-grid, Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities, Productive Use, Projects, Qualitative, Quantitative, South Asia, T. Robert Fetter, Victoria Plutshack
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Oct 4, 2021 | News
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....
by Tommy Klug | Oct 1, 2021 | Africa, Blog Post, Building Equitable and Sustainable Energy Transitions, EAP Blog, Electricity, Electricity, Grid, News, Policy Design, Projects, Reviews, Thomas Klug
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Sep 29, 2021 | Appliances, Blog Post, Building Equitable and Sustainable Energy Transitions, COVID-19, EAP Blog, Gender, Individual Health, News, Victoria Plutshack
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Aug 31, 2021 | News
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Jul 22, 2021 | News, Student Opportunities
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Jun 21, 2021 | Africa, Mini-grids, Policy Design, South Asia, Stories
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? ...
by Victoria Plutshack | Jun 10, 2021 | Development Institutions, EAP Blog, Generation Technologies, Jonathan Phillips, Modernizing Energy Access Finance, Other
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Jun 10, 2021 | EAP Blog, Policy Design, Solar
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....
by Victoria Plutshack | May 23, 2021 | Africa, EAP Blog, Electricity, Modernizing Energy Access Finance, Off-grid, Policy Design, Quantitative, Solar, Solar Home Systems
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Mar 22, 2021 | Africa, Electricity, Health Facilities, Mini-grids, News, Off-grid, Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities, Solar, Solar Home Systems, T. Robert Fetter
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Mar 22, 2021 | Electricity, Hydro, Impact Evaluation, Mini-grids, News, Off-grid, Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities, Productive Use, Quantitative, Robyn Meeks, South Asia
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Mar 18, 2021 | 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, 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 Victoria Plutshack | Mar 1, 2021 | News, Student Events, Student Opportunities
Watch: Energy in Emerging Markets Career Talks Curious about careers related to energy access and energy transitions in low- and middle-income countries? Check out this career talks session, which focuses on opportunities in governmental agencies and development...
by Victoria Plutshack | Feb 22, 2021 | Africa, Case Study, Hybrid, Jonathan Phillips, Mini-grids, Modernizing Energy Access Finance, News, Policy Design, Solar, Victoria Plutshack
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Feb 16, 2021 | Africa, Case Study, East Asia & Pacific, Electricity, Grid, Historical Analysis, Integrated Utility Planning, Jonathan Phillips, Latin America & Caribbean, Mini-grids, Modernizing Energy Access Finance, Off-grid, Policy Design, Productive Use, Projects, Seth Yeazel, South Asia, Victoria Plutshack
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:...
by Victoria Plutshack | Feb 10, 2021 | Jonathan Phillips, News
by Victoria Plutshack | Jan 2, 2021 | Student Opportunities
Internship Opportunity: Climate and Energy at Oxfam America New Student Opportunity! Oxfam is seeking an intern to provide support for a dedicated project assessing the World Bank’s reporting of its climate...
by Victoria Plutshack | Dec 17, 2020 | Blog Post, Electricity, Jonathan Phillips, Mini-grids, Modernizing Energy Access Finance, News, Off-grid, Policy Design, Qualitative, Quantitative, Victoria Plutshack
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Dec 15, 2020 | Africa, Electricity, Grid, Integrated Utility Planning, Jonathan Phillips, Modernizing Energy Access Finance, News, Off-grid, Report
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,...
by Joshua Wilson | Dec 14, 2020 | Africa, Appliances, Electricity, Grid, Integrated Utility Planning, Jonathan Phillips, Mini-grids, Modernizing Energy Access Finance, Off-grid, Policy Design, Projects, Rajah Saparapa
Utilities 2.0 Commercial Approaches for Integrating Utilities and Off-grid Models The power sector debate in many low- and middle- income countries has focused on grid expansion versus off-grid options. However, integration of on- and off-grid approaches to...
by Abi Vanover | Dec 9, 2020 | Air Quality, Blog Post, Building Equitable and Sustainable Energy Transitions, Case Study, Coal, COVID-19, Electricity, Latin America & Caribbean, News, Paelina DeStephano, Policy Design, Political Economy, Qualitative, Victoria Plutshack
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...
by Victoria Plutshack | Dec 7, 2020 | Deep Learning, Electricity, Grid, Integrated Utility Planning, Off-grid, Other, Policy Design, Quantitative, Stories, Student Opportunities
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...
by Joshua Wilson | Oct 26, 2020 | Stories, Student Blog, Student Opportunities, Student Publications
Summer 2020 Energy Internship Program This summer, the Energy Access Project funded nine students to look at issues of energy accessibility, finance, and technology across the globe On August 28th, students who completed summer internships through the Energy...
by Victoria Plutshack | Oct 26, 2020 | Africa, Case Study, Cookstoves, East Asia & Pacific, Grid, Hydro, Latin America & Caribbean, Off-grid, Other, Qualitative, Solar, South Asia, Stories, Student Blog, Student Publications, Wind
GLEAN Annual Case Studies The Energy Access Project sponsors the Global Energy Access Network, an interdisciplinary network of graduate and undergraduate students at Duke. Together, we aim to foster a research and policy dialogue on campus around energy access through...
by Joshua Wilson | Oct 8, 2020 | Podcast, SETI
< Back to SETI Media How to Increase the Use of Clean Cookstoves and Solar Lighting in Rural Ethiopia and Beyond Sied Hassen is a Senior Research Fellow at the Policy Studies Insitute in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Sied designed an inventive field experiment to uncover...
by Victoria Plutshack | Aug 26, 2020 | Deep Learning, Electricity, Harnessing Data and Modern Technology, Integrated Utility Planning, Kyle Bradbury, Mini-grids, Off-grid, Other, Projects, Solar, Solar Home Systems, T. Robert Fetter
Mapping Solar Arrays With Aerial Imagery Policymakers need accurate data in order to make strategic investments decisions for grids, microgrids, and off-grid solar home systems, but those data are often missing. Two critical inputs for planning—who has access to...
by Victoria Plutshack | Aug 25, 2020 | Africa, Harnessing Data and Modern Technology, News, Solar, T. Robert Fetter
[rev_slider alias="intro-slider"] Powering Health Care: Measuring Impact of Clinic Electrification Subhrendu Pattanayak, faculty director of the Energy Access Project, will participate in Powering Health Care’s “Designing Research and M&E Strategies to...
by Victoria Plutshack | Aug 24, 2020 | Agriculture, Air Quality, Econometric Regression Analysis, Micro-level Surveys, P.P. Krishnapriya, Pollution, Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities, Projects, Quantitative, South Asia, Subhrendu Pattanayak
Adoption of conservation agriculture in India Every October to November, the ambient air in the Indo-Gangetic plain becomes a noxious concoction of toxic emissions that are partly attributable to the seasonal agricultural residue burning. This burning contributes to a...
by Victoria Plutshack | Aug 21, 2020 | Appliances, Building Equitable and Sustainable Energy Transitions, Electricity, Gender, Grid, Harnessing Data and Modern Technology, Historical Analysis, Other, Qualitative, Quantitative, Student Blog, Student Opportunities, Student Publications, T. Robert Fetter, Victoria Plutshack
What the U.S. rural electrification story can teach us today Come join the Electric Circus! In 1935, only 10% of farms in the U.S. were electrified. This was seen as a huge problem – the productivity and quality of life that electricity could bring was bypassing the...
by Victoria Plutshack | Aug 20, 2020 | Appliances, Building Equitable and Sustainable Energy Transitions, Cookstoves, East Asia & Pacific, Electricity, Gender, Impact Evaluation, Ipsita Das, Micro-level Surveys, Mini-grids, Off-grid, Projects, Quantitative, Solar, Subhrendu Pattanayak
Gender and off-grid energy access in Myanmar Myanmar has the lowest electrification rate in Asia (> 60% rural population lacks electricity), and the Government of Myanmar aims to electrify all households by 2030 through grid extension and off-grid infrastructure....
by Joshua Wilson | Aug 10, 2020 | Podcast, SETI
< Back to SETI Media China Has A Plan to Reduce Household Air Pollution. But Who Benefits? Lunyu Xie is Associate Professor at the School of Applied Economics , Renmin University of China. She conducted a unique cost-benefit study of this program that analyzed the...
by Joshua Wilson | Jul 13, 2020 | Podcast, SETI
< Back to SETI Media Why Does Chile Have Such Bad Air Pollution? Carlos Chavez is a professor of economics at the School of Business and Economics at Universidad de Talca in Central Chile. His research focuses on the use of wood-burning heating stoves in Chile and...
by Joshua Wilson | Jul 13, 2020 | Abi Vanover, Air Quality, Building Equitable and Sustainable Energy Transitions, Cookstoves, Cost Benefit Analysis, Gender, Individual Health, Ipsita Das, Marc Jeuland, News, Other, Policy Design, Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities, Quantitative
by Victoria Plutshack | Jul 13, 2020 | Africa, COVID-19, Electricity, Grid, Health Facilities, News, Off-grid, Powering Productivity and Healthy Communities, T. Robert Fetter
by Joshua Wilson | Jun 5, 2020 | Africa, COVID-19, Electricity, Grid, Health Facilities, News, Off-grid, T. Robert Fetter
by Joshua Wilson | May 19, 2020 | Podcast, SETI
< Back to SETI Media How Female Entrepreneurs Can Light Up Rural Rwanda Rebecca Klege is an Economist whose research focuses on the intersection of clean energy access and female entrepreneurship. Rather than asking how energy access empowers women, she examines...
by Victoria Plutshack | May 18, 2020 | Building Equitable and Sustainable Energy Transitions, Gender, Ipsita Das, Marc Jeuland, News, Other, P.P. Krishnapriya, Rajah Saparapa, Subhrendu Pattanayak, Victoria Plutshack
Powering Empowerment Experts from over 10 time zones and 35 countries came together May 12-13th for our first ever virtual workshop – Energy Access through a Gender Lens! This event, co-sponsored with the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative and Women in...
by Joshua Wilson | May 18, 2020 | Cost Benefit Analysis, Deep Learning, Econometric Regression Analysis, Impact Evaluation, Micro-level Surveys, News, Other, Quantitative, Systems Modeling, T. Robert Fetter
by Victoria Plutshack | May 15, 2020 | Deep Learning, Harnessing Data and Modern Technology, News, Other, Solar, Solar Home Systems, T. Robert Fetter
Catalyst Grant Winners! Congratulations to the seven winners of the Nicholas Institute Catalyst Grants! We are delighted that this year's winners includes EAP's own Rob Fetter, who will be leading 'Mapping Solar Photovoltaic Arrays Using Unpiloted Aerial...
by Victoria Plutshack | May 6, 2020 | Africa, Case Study, Development Institutions, East Asia & Pacific, Grid, Historical Analysis, Jonathan Phillips, Latin America & Caribbean, News, Off-grid, Other, Policy Design, Qualitative, Quantitative, South Asia, Victoria Plutshack
An off-grid energy future requires learning from the past The more things change, the more they stay the same. EAP's latest in the Brookings Future Development blog explores the electrification experiences of seven countries, their program costs and the subsidies...
