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The searing sad story of why Scaling Solar didn't scale
How a high profile World Bank program was supposed to blaze the trail to a solar future but got lost in the dark.
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Live Wires 3: Where is US support for Africa’s power plants? The data says... meh.
Plus Mega Mania in South Africa & Mauritania, what’s a Blue Dot?, nuclear Poland, and the Mike Pompeo Slayer meets wondrous 🐔🐔🐔.
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When we get climate justice upside-down, it’s the poor that get hurt
Two perspectives on climate policy overreach + cartoonish backroom shenanigans from the Glasgow COP
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What We Get Wrong About Energy Poverty
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Why ‘The Fridge’ Continues to Resonate
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Nigeria is BIG. So are its electricity needs.
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When we get climate justice upside-down, it’s the poor that get hurt
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Shedding light on the dark corners of the power sector
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Collateral damage from America's myopic mercantilism
Why US economic policies may be bad for the global energy transition and especially for Africa
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Shedding light on the dark corners of the power sector
What South Africa could learn from Ghana about why the energy transition means we need more open power markets.
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Live Wires 2: How running a power utility is like Pulp Fiction + 5 more
Also: Money-laundering trouble, Russian nuclear market dominance, Guyana’s gas boom, Dick Durbin’s happy bikes, and the compelling case for geothermal…
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Nigeria is BIG. So are its electricity needs.
We all know the feeling, even panic, when the power goes out at home. Now imagine trying to run a whole country without power.
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Why ‘The Fridge’ Continues to Resonate
Everyone’s favorite family appliance has become an enduring illustration of global energy inequality
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Is cheaper wind always cheaper?
A South African tale of comparative electricity costs
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America’s solar push in Africa is lame.
Can we learn from the UAE?
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