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John Ayaburi
PhD Researcher, The Payne Institute

John Ayaburi is an MS Mineral and Energy Economics student at the Colorado School of Mines. He previously received a master’s degree in Economics from Youngstown State University. His research interests include reliable energy access and energy poverty.

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Coffee Break Briefing with John Ayaburi and Morgan Bazilian: "Estimating ‘reasonably reliable’ electricity"

By John Ayaburi, Morgan Bazilian, Todd Moss
SDG7 commits the world to ending energy poverty by "ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all by 2030." Yet we have no accepted international indicator for reliability.
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3.5 Billion People Lack Reliable Power

By John Ayaburi, Morgan Bazilian, Jacob Kincer, Todd Moss
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 7 commits the world to ending energy poverty by “ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all by 2030.” The dominant measurement of progress against SDG7 is the access rate, which measures the number of people with basic household electricity.
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Measuring “Reasonably Reliable” access to electricity services

By John Ayaburi, Morgan Bazilian, Jacob Kincer, Todd Moss
From Electricity Journal (August 2020) While the electricity access rate is regularly measured in most countries, there are no routinely tracked metrics that measure reliability.
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