Webinar: Ending Energy Poverty

Originally aired May 30, 2017

More than 1 billion people worldwide still lack access to electricity, and more than 2.7 billion lack clean cooking facilities. Co-hosted by SSF and ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, this session examines what has worked in developing nations to expand access to modern energy services — and how affordable energy deployment can be accelerated while overcoming social, cultural, geopolitical, and educational barriers that have kept energy poverty entrenched in the world’s most vulnerable communities.

Speakers

Clark Miller (Moderator)

Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability; Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, ASU

Clark Miller is a Senior Sustainability Scientist at ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability and an Associate Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society. As part of the ASU LightWorks leadership team, he coordinates social science, humanities, and policy research on energy transitions — studying the social dynamics and societal implications of large-scale changes in energy systems, including the equity dimensions of the global clean energy transition.

Kartikeya Singh

Deputy Director, Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies, CSIS

Kartikeya Singh is Deputy Director of the Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at CSIS. His research focuses on climate change and energy policy, innovation, and the geopolitics of energy use. He has field-tested and deployed clean energy technologies — including electric vehicles and off-grid solar solutions — in India and Uganda, connecting global policy with on-the-ground energy access realities in the developing world.

Joy Clancy

Professor of Development Studies (Gender), University of Twente

Joy Clancy is a Professor in Development Studies specializing in Gender at the University of Twente. For more than 30 years, her research has focused on small-scale energy systems for developing countries — including the technology transfer process and the role that energy plays as an input for small businesses, with particular attention to the opportunities that energy access offers entrepreneurs, especially women, as a catalyst for economic empowerment and poverty reduction.

Alon Abramson

Program Manager, Philadelphia Energy Authority

Alon Abramson is Program Manager at the Philadelphia Energy Authority, overseeing the Energy Campaign — a 10-year, $1 billion initiative to make energy cleaner and more affordable for low-income households, small businesses, municipal buildings, and schools in Philadelphia. He brings expertise in best practices and policy for implementing energy efficiency programs in urban communities, developed through prior work at the Penn Institute for Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania.