This piece is cross-posted with The ONE Campaign. “Power will power job creation.” This bold statement from Liberia’s Minister of Finance and Development Planning Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan succinctly ...

BLUF: Nigeria’s first Integrated Resource Plan (NIRP) recommends expanding the national grid tenfold by 2045. But it rests on three doubtful assumptions: That customers — already off-grid — will ...

Countries soon rolled out extreme energy-conservation measures, but only for the public sector. They cut workdays, canceled travel, and limited air-conditioning in government buildings (See Table 2).

Nuclear is not only for rich countries. India and Pakistan started civilian nuclear programs when they were far poorer than most nuclear-aspiring countries today. A diverse set of emerging markets are ...

Electricity demand across ASEAN is projected to more than triple by 2050, rising to about 4,000 terawatt-hours (TWh). ASEAN includes some of Asia’s fastest growing economies, including Cambodia, the ...

BLUF: For the first time, we can track poverty, energy access, income, and economic growth at the level of individual buildings, across entire continents, and update those estimates continuously. The ...

In August, I was in Accra for the African Centre for Energy Policy’s Future of Energy Conference, which brought together policymakers, utility executives, and industrial operators from across West ...

BLUF: To respond to power outages, emerging economies often turn to emergency power procurement. The urgency creates opportunities for power producers to secure long-term, high-cost power purchase ...