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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.

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 to climate. Robyn will study climate resilience in developing countries while at Harvard for the 2023-24 academic year.

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 manufacturing.

The 4th Annual Meeting of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative took place on May 15-17, 2019 in Santiago, Chile.

As Subhrendu Pattanayak and a group of researchers from Duke University navigate narrow catwalks high into the Annapurna mountain range in the Himalayas, they begin to understand first-hand the difficulties of establishing any set infrastructure in such difficult terrain.