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High Energy Planet will change the way you think about solving global energy poverty and ensuring climate justice.

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A bi-weekly podcast that brings new and unconventional thinking on solutions for global energy poverty and energy access. Co-hosted by Katie Auth and Rose Mutiso, High Energy Planet features scholars, policymakers, innovators, and controversial thinkers on what’s happening in the world of energy access and how we can solve it.

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Rose Mutiso is the Hub Research Director and formerly Senior Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Senate (bio). Katie Auth is the Hub Policy Director and previously served as Deputy Coordinator of Power Africa at USAID (bio).

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Episode #14 Ashvin Dayal: We Need to Redefine Energy & Development Progress

May 10 | 31min

Dayal, Senior Vice President of Power & Climate and The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet at The Rockefeller Foundation, discusses how he got into working on energy, why he believes in raising the definition of energy access, and the power of philanthropy.

 

Episode #13 Moussa Blimpo: Energy is Not the Answer to Everything

April 21 | 35 mins

Blimpo, Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk’s School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, discusses his experiences turning policy into real-world impact, his evolving views on dominant development narratives, and what climate justice means to him.

 

Episode #12 Uzodinma Iweala: Climate Justice Demands New African Narratives

April 6 | 39 mins

Iweala, CEO of The Africa Center, discusses the experiences and identities that led him to narrative work, how narratives are formed and how we can shape them in the development and climate justice realm, and what his definition of climate justice means for Africa.

 

Episode #11 Jay Taneja: Using Machine Learning to Inform Energy Access Solutions

March 23 | 29 mins

Taneja, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, discusses his work on creatively accessing data in data-poor environments, the challenges in electrification via grid connections, and his work as an engineer and professor in the development sector.

 

 

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Episode #14 Ashvin Dayal: We Need to Redefine Energy & Development Progress

By Katie Auth, Rose Mutiso, Ashvin Dayal
Dayal, Senior Vice President of Power & Climate and The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet at The Rockefeller Foundation, discusses how he got into working on energy, why he believes in raising the definition of energy access, and the power of philanthropy. Ashvin Dayal leads The Rockefeller Foundation’s Power & Climate program, aimed at scaling up energy access and accelerating an inclusive energy transition in emerging markets.
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Episode #13 Moussa Blimpo: Energy is Not the Answer to Everything

By Moussa Blimpo, Rose Mutiso, Katie Auth
Blimpo, Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto's Munk’s School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, discusses his experiences turning policy into real-world impact, his evolving views on dominant development narratives, and what climate justice means to him. Moussa is a Senior Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, a Fellow at the Energy for Growth Hub, and Senior Fellow with the Clean Air Task Force.
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Episode #12 Uzodinma Iweala: Climate Justice Demands New African Narratives

By Uzodinma Iweala, Rose Mutiso, Katie Auth
Iweala, CEO of The Africa Center, discusses the experiences and identities that led him to narrative work, how narratives are formed and how we can shape them in the development and climate justice realm, and what his definition of climate justice means for Africa. Uzodinma Iweala is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, and medical doctor.
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Episode #11 Jay Taneja: Using Machine Learning to Inform Energy Access Solutions

By Jay Taneja, Katie Auth, Rose Mutiso
Taneja, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, discusses his work on creatively accessing data in data-poor environments, the challenges in electrification via grid connections, and his work as an engineer and professor in the development sector. Jay Taneja is a Hub Fellow and an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he directs the Systems Towards Infrastructure Measurement and Analytics (STIMA) Lab.
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Episode #10 Katie Hill: The First Pillar of Decarbonization Needs to be Green Growth

By Katie Hill, Katie Auth, Rose Mutiso
Hill, Partner & Associate Director at Boston Consulting Group, talks about the future for African cities, the imperative for green growth in low-income countries on the global path to net zero, and her outlook on scaling enterprise and service delivery in Africa. Katie Hill is an expert Partner and Associate Director at Boston Consulting Group, based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Episode #9 Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee: Decarbonization is a Very Long Game

By Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Katie Auth, Rose Mutiso
Banerjee, practice manager in the Energy and Extractives Global Practice at the World Bank Group, talks with Katie and Rose about whether net zero makes sense for Africa, what development organizations get wrong about energy access & women, and why hydrogen could be the next solar. Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee is a Practice Manager in the Africa region in Energy and Extractives Global Practice at the World Bank.
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Episode #8 Damilola Ogunbiyi: Putting People at the Center of Energy Transitions

By Damilola Ogunbiyi, Rose Mutiso, Katie Auth
The CEO of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) on whether the international community is failing on SDG7, what she thinks net zero means for Africa & how she challenges the stereotype of what an African leader looks like. Damilola Ogunbiyi is the CEO of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy.
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Episode #7 Rebekah Shirley: Small Island Nations are Hypervisible & Hyper Invisible

By Rebekah Shirley, Rose Mutiso, Katie Auth
The director of research, data & innovation for WRI Africa talks with Katie & Rose about climate justice and building resilient energy infrastructure in small island developing states, why climate finance pledges don't always translate to reality, obstacles to electrical vehicle uptake in Africa, and Nairobi's reggae scene. Dr.
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Episode 6: Arvind Subramanian: We Have to Fight Carbon Imperialism

By Arvind Subramanian, Katie Auth, Rose Mutiso
The former chief economic advisor to India’s government on how climate policy has become disconnected from energy needs of poorer countries, the politics of India’s electrical tariffs and why he thinks renewable energy has yet to be proven economically viable there. Arvind Subramanian is Senior Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and a Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development.
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Episode #5 Ken Caldeira: Let’s Align Self-Interest with Global Climate Interest

By Ken Caldeira, Rose Mutiso, Katie Auth
One of the world’s most visionary climate scientists tells Katie & Rose why he thinks nuclear energy is key to quelling climate change and delivering prosperity to the developing world, why he’s gone all-positive on Twitter, why considering solar geoengineering won’t stop us from addressing climate change, and what he learned from pumping crocodile stomachs as a grad student.   Ken Caldeira has been the senior scientist at Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology on the Stanford University campus in California since 2005.
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