jonathan phillips
@jp_phillips10
Director @EAPDuke. Energy, climate, foreign affairs advisor @OPIC, @PowerAfricaUS, US House and Senate. RPCV Mongolia. Views my own.
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http://energyaccess.duke.edu 20-02-2011 22:25:44
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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…
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? Rainforest Action Network (RAN) 🌴
Finally, out ... a mini-grid flavored Xmas pub for #EnergyTwitter by Rob Fetter P P Krishnapriya Jay Taneja & 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
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
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?
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
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…
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…
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
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 👇👇👇
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…