Imagining the ‘Google’ of electrification: how digital twins and computational systems for continuous planning can reinvent century-old practices

Mohamed explains why transparency is an overlooked issue in addressing energy poverty, why he thinks decarbonization will increase…
This post is co-authored with Eric Hsu, Edward Miguel, and Catherine Wolfram. Governments and foreign aid institutions routinely…
The fight over when – or even whether – to use development finance for gas-fired power plants in…
Varun Sivaram heads anyone’s short list of global solar power experts. A physicist, best-selling author and clean energy technology expert with experience spanning the corporate, policy and academic sectors, Sivaram was most recently the CTO of ReNew Power, India’s largest renewable energy firm. His 2018 book, Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet, was heralded by the Financial Times as “the best available overview of where the industry finds itself today, and a road map for how it can reach that brighter future.”
Iweala, CEO of The Africa Center, discusses the experiences and identities that led him to narrative work, how…
On Monday, the U.S. Treasury released its Fossil Fuel Energy Guidance for Multilateral Development Banks. This will shape…