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Incentivizing Grid Reliability in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
On October 14, 2025, an in-person roundtable discussion in Washington D.C. unpacked the power reliability challenge in low- and middle-income countries and pressure-tested ideas from the newly released working paper Incentivizing Reliability: A Framework for Performance-Linked Electricity Improvements. Click here to learn more about our work in this area.
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 Africa”.
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 fall 2023. Jonathan will work with DKU’s International Master of Environmental Policy program, furthering research on low-carbon development and investment.
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 EAP@Duke is doing to evaluate the effects of the DREAM project on the resilience of the farming community.
Climate finance myth busting
Jonathan Phillips unpacks the most commonly misunderstood concepts around the state of climate finance.
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 News
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 at Duke, “Balancing Competition and Subsidy: Mini-grid Incentive Programs in Africa.” EAP’s Jonathan Phillips and Victoria Plutshack led the discussion with a host of experts in the field.
Energy Monitor: 2021 will see more climate finance for locally led energy access
EAP’s Jonathan Phillips explains that hundreds of millions of people will not get electricity access by 2030 if we rely on purely commercial off-grid approaches alone.