Integrated Energy in Action

The energy access landscape is shifting—today, it’s not just remote communities that are underserved, but also those near the grid. In sub-Saharan Africa for instance, more than 600 million people still lack electricity, and yet 63% live within an hour of a city!  Conventional grid approaches are not keeping pace, yet decentralized technologies alone are […]

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Here’s a question: If the need is so urgent, if the renewable resources are cheap and plentiful, then exactly why is Africa still so far behind from the clean energy potential we all rave about? It turns out, there’s more than meets the eye on explaining why international investment doesn’t seem to flow naturally to […]

A Focus Issue on Energy Transformations in Africa

Those of you who know me, know that I care deeply about amplifying the voices of fellow young southern scholars. So as soon as I was invited to sit on the founding editorial board of my first academic journal, Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability from the powerhouse IOP Publishing, I set out to create a […]