2025 Update: Africa EV Readiness and Impact Index

June Lukuyu is a Fellow at the Energy for Growth Hub. She is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, where her research focuses on developing and planning for inclusive energy systems and innovative technologies in underserved communities, centering on promoting sustainability, social development, and human empowerment. Her work uses a wide range of data analytics, computing techniques, and social science methods to build models for integrated energy development, and systems planning, with model outputs aimed at informing energy, climate and development decision-making. She holds a Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Fish and Chips: Converting Fishing Boats for Electric Mobility to Serve as Minigrid Anchor Loads. The Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (E-Energy). June 22-26, 2020.
Can microgrids enable macro development? Brookings Institution. June 27, 2019.
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Summary To achieve an equitable global net zero future, lower-income and under-electrified countries must play a much bigger…
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