Energy Poverty Impacts Three Billion People. Time to Think Big.

Jessica Lovering is a doctoral student in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on how commercial nuclear trade affects international security standards and how very small nuclear reactors could be deployed on microgrids.

Johanna Nesseth Tuttle serves as the Executive Director of the Niger Delta Partnership Initiative. Previously she led Chevron’s policy engagement on global development and corporate social responsibility, including economic development, the role of energy in development, financial transparency and the Sustainable Development Goals. Prior to Chevron, she served as Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning & Development at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, a nonpartisan, nonprofit policy organization in Washington, DC.

Africa is rural. Or that’s what senior Western officials envision when they talk about the continent. America’s top diplomat for the region, Tibor Nagy, recently said that Africa is “by and large an agricultural society.” He isn’t alone: Germany’s recent Marshall Plan with Africa insists that “rural areas will determine Africa’s future.” This is wrong.

Will Bitcoin cook the planet? A great Axios piece “No, Bitcoin won't destroy our climate by 2033” argues that carbon emissions from the substantial energy consumption of bitcoin mining isn’t likely to significantly contribute to global warming.

Anant Sudarshan is South Asia Director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC). He is also a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Economics, University of Chicago.

Mimi Alemayehou is Managing Director at Black Rhino Group, an infrastructure platform focused on the development and acquisition of energy and infrastructure projects across Africa.

A global energy transition is under way. Its potential to redraw the landscape will be most profoundly felt in developing economies.

Catrina Godinho is a Research Associate and PhD Candidate in Managing Infrastructure Investment, Reform and Regulation in Africa (MIRA), based at the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Graduate School of Business (GSB).

Host Daniel Raimi of Resources For the Future talks with Todd Moss. They cover two major topics: avoiding the so-called "oil curse" in the nation of Guyana, and supporting economic growth in the developing world by improving energy access for businesses and industries. Listen to the whole Podcast below or here.

It is universally true that all rich countries use a lot of energy. This might make you think about in-home systems: refrigerators, lights, etc.