Event Information
Date:
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Location:
Durham, North Carolina
Event type
The third meeting of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) took place May 15-17, 2018 at Duke University (Durham, NC). As with prior meetings, we brought together leading experts working on this theme from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and organizations, but with a strong emphasis on environmental economics and policy. The meeting consisted of a set of presentation and comments by selected speakers, smaller breakout and research planning sessions around specific topics, discussion of synthetic work being done by SETI research teams, and sessions with practitioners and policy-makers working on energy and development issues.
Common themes and sub-topics of presentations included:
- Consequences of energy poverty, and impacts of energy transitions at various scales (households, firms, and the regional and global environment);
- Drivers of the energy transition in low- and middle-income contexts, including lessons from past experiences;
- Adoption and impacts of renewable and off-grid or micro-grid solutions;
- New methods and data sources for measuring access to modern energy services;
- Policy levers and solutions to speed the energy transition; and analysis of their effectiveness; and
- Empirical evidence that speaks to gaps in research on energy transitions.
