No brainer: fight #COVID19 and put the #offgrid sector back to work powering the 25% of African health facilities lacking electricity. #SDG7 #SDG3

This is one of the most important forces in progressive policymaking in the US right now. Go @ProjectFairness Jonathan Schleifer and Missouri voters! nytimes.com/2020/08/04/ups…

What a closing arguement from Ed Markey.

Duke students, alums, faculty and staff! Want to know what the future holds for energy? Come hear our director jonathan phillips share his insights on 9/14 👇👇👇

Between 2012 and 2019, donors committed US$1.6 billion to help scale the #minigrid sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, just 13% of that capital has been deployed. Where is the other 87%? buff.ly/2ZOip8B #SDG7 #offgridsolar #RenewableEnergy

Essential reading for those following Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Hard modeling on fill, draught scenarios. The water panic/fake news angle during draught is one to lose sleep over #GERD Quartz Africa @raghavanWaPo Max Bearak Somini Sengupta🥭 Subhrendu K. Pattanayak nature.com/articles/s4146…

Foregoing mundane maintenance, reliability upgrades, and smart meter rollouts = downward spiral of many electric utilities in LMICs. What does it mean that COVID is undermining these investments again? #Duke's Robyn Meeks Victoria Plutshack, Ph.D. leading key research nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/articles/can-t…

Big thanks to the 70 grad school teams who competed in this years Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition, and congrats to U of SF, Yale, and Michigan for taking home the prizes! University of San Francisco Yale University University of Michigan

Great to see this getting off the ground. 100 million+ people in Africa alone will lose access to electricity this year, and many off-grid providers could be wiped out. #energyaccess #sdg7

Our latest on #minigrids: incentive programs are exploding across Africa, but are they being designed to build a sector capable of scaling to hundreds of millions of customers?

Hypothesis of sorts on the next phase of "integrated" power systems: new commercial relationships between minigrid developers, utilities and equipment suppliers can align core competencies and lower barriers to scale. Will it work in the real world? Stay tuned! Power for All

Finally, out ... a mini-grid flavored Xmas pub for #EnergyTwitter by Rob Fetter P P Krishnapriya @JKTaneja & co. Building the supply of demand: Experiments in mini-grid demand stimulation sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Dr. Hisham Zerriffi Jörg Ankel-Peters @jurpelai EfD jonathan phillips

Join me and this stellar crew of #Minigrid experts THIS THURSDAY to sort through what we're learning from all the new programs emerging in Africa.

A full-page NYT ad to inform the public that you have 5 more years of Amazon rainforest destruction planned under your ambitious climate plan, Pilgrim’s Pride!? Did i wake-up in 1985? @RAN⁩

Shell could sell 10 more oil fields, regulators could nationalize the proceeds, and we'd have $100 Billion for climate finance The fact I LOL'd writing that shows how far we still are from even thinking, let alone acting, at the scale of this crisis bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Just to get us calibrated on the starting point of Biden's #climatefinance plan: today, the US gov is more invested in overseas #fossilfuel projects than #renewables. energyaccess.duke.edu/net-zero-may-b…

This is happening all over North Carolina and the US South. NOT a climate solution.

2400 marines aboard the U.S.S. Kearsarge felt like the Beatles cruising around Stockholm today. Curious how this fit into Russian scenario planning

Jennifer Chow bottom-lines the importance of the Food Systems Pavilion at #COP27 this year – and why bringing in voices of smallhold farmers and fishers on the ground is critical to these discussions #ActiononFood

Tickled and honored to have been a small part of this docuseries spearheaded by American treasure Doris Kearns Goodwin. Tune in tonight for the first episode of #FDR, a 3-night event HISTORY.