Originally published by UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy To meet the development needs of a growing population, Africa’s electricity sector requires a major transformation. Despite important changes over the past decade, efforts to expand and modernize the sector need to be redoubled. Indeed, current electrification rates, generation-capacity levels, … [continued]
This week, Anne-Sophie Garrigou, journalist at The Beam, interviewed Daniel Kammen, professor in both the Energy Resources Group and the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, where he also directs the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL).
A new policymaking tool to better enable the shift to renewable energy has been developed by researchers at the University of California–Berkeley, and presented at an event at the University of Copenhagen. Policymakers and planners need to discern the most efficient and effective means within the multiple choices and routes to … [continued]
The World Bank is supposedly changing its ways and putting more and more money into clean energy. This is what it keeps telling us. Though, some analyses would tell you otherwise and it just recently approved approximately $3 billion for what will be the 4th largest coal power plant in … [continued]
