Ethiopia

Taneja, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, discusses his…

The mobile phone revolution is allowing countries to skip landlines, prompting many observers to assume countries might also skip building an electricity grid and jump right to distributed home energy systems (e.g., here and here). New disruptive technologies are exciting and alluring, especially in sub-Saharan markets where the unmet infrastructure needs are huge. After all, if you can charge your smartphone with a rooftop solar kit, then who needs power plants and a grid?

Will Bitcoin cook the planet? A great Axios piece “No, Bitcoin won’t destroy our climate by 2033” argues…

Americans take for granted 24/7 internet, cloud data storage, and on-demand air conditioning, all powered by abundant electricity.…

A recent paper in Nature Energy has grabbed headlines such as ‘Africa’s green energy transition unlikely this decade’…

How can international donors better support Africa’s transition to a prosperous low-carbon energy future? And when should donors…