Feb 19 2019
This report is a collaboration between Smart Power India (SPI), a subsidiary of The Rockefeller Foundation and the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP), at the Johns Hopkins School of …
Power
Sep 13 2018
Perspective
This piece is part of our 2018 United Nations General Assembly series. As we approach the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York, still more than 1 …
Apr 30 2018
Perspective
An early-morning fresh market in the middle of Salingyi town in Central Myanmar is bustling with farmers, traders, and entrepreneurs coming from surrounding villages to sell assorted agricultural produce and …
Feb 20 2018
Perspective
Every Earth Day, those of us who live in the perpetual glow of electronic devices, screens and city lights are implored to reduce our energy use to soften our carbon …
Feb 12 2018
Speeches
As delivered on Monday, February 12, 2018, at New Delhi, India Thank you very much. I also want to thank my friend and former colleague, Mark White, with Shri Desh Deepak …
Jan 22 2018
Perspective
India currently reports 99.4% electrification, yet there are 304 million people who still lack access to electricity according to the recent draft of the National Energy Policy (NEP) issued by …
Jan 11 2018
Perspective
About 300 million people in India, most of them in rural areas, live without reliable electricity. Without electricity, people’s livelihood options are limited, access to basic services is restricted, and …
Jan 03 2018
Perspective
Government affirmation of off-grid models being a complementary way of viable electricity provision will be critical to unlocking market potential. A quarter of the world’s energy poor live in India. This …
Dec 08 2017
Current plans to provide “Power for All” in India via the country’s utility or distribution companies (known as discoms), through main-grid extension and utility-scale generation projects, are largely polluting, slow to …
Power
Oct 04 2017
Perspective
This piece first appeared in the March 2017 issue of ESI Africa and reposted with permission. Accessible, reliable, affordable electricity - this makes the difference between a prosperous society that is …