This piece by Severin Borenstein (Severin Borenstein 🇺🇦) is a must-read for anyone who cares about #equity in the #energytransition - or a lack thereof.

In #California , the poor pay sky-high #electricity rates (more than 2x national average) to subsidize billions
energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/cal…

In this article, Center on Global Energy Policy's Andrew Kamau
highlights how innovative models of local capital, can help meet the #energy needs of a rapidly industrializing #Africa and its growing population.

energypolicy.columbia.edu/funding-africa…

Last week, CGEP research scholars Erica Downs and Karen Young testified before U.S.-China Commission on 'China and the Middle East' and spoke on energy, investment, and economic interests tied to the United States.

▶️ Watch the hearing:
uscc.gov/hearings/china…

📽️ Jeff Berardelli sits down with our faculty director Michael Gerrard & WFLA's Val Simpson to discuss the latest news re: the climate lawsuits around the 🌏, including #EuropeanClimateTrials : buff.ly/3Uqzke4 #ClimateClassroom Columbia Law School @ColumbiaClimate

Enjoyed this discussion with Congressman Ben Cline, Debra DeShong Qcells North America, Helena Fu U.S. Department of Energy, Allison Clements and Phil Bond on AI and the energy transition.

AI is already transforming the energy sector (and vice versa). And the impacts we are seeing are just the start...

“Coal plants in conservative states help fuel the ever-deadlier heat waves, fires and storms battering California and other progressive bastions. The electrons generated by those plants flow into a network of wires that keep the lights on across the American West.”

To solve #climatechange we need to get to #netzero . Which means increasing needs for copper and other materials. But how can we responsibly develop these resources in a way that balances impacts on communities & ecosystems? It’s not simple… nytimes.com/2024/04/16/cli…

Between 2022 and 2023, the nationwide forecast for electricity demand shot up from 2.6% to 4.7% growth over the next five years, according to the firm Grid Strategies' analysis. Are utilities prepared for the ongoing surge? latitudemedia.com/news/why-utili…

Data center energy use is spiking—and it's worrying environmentalists. But many experts see the demand boom as an opportunity to get creative about expanding grid capacity and designing data centers. On May 8, join Stephen Lacey for this free virtual event: latitudemedia.com/events/transit…

“…if we don’t keep fighting for equality & opportunity…It’s like the canary in the coal mine... As women are oppressed and as people get away with it. You never know who might be next.” ~ Hillary Clinton
#womensinitiative 👏Columbia | SIPA
Prof. Keren Yarhi-Milo

Heart-wrenching Los Angeles Times reporting from the Navajo Nation, where many Indigenous families lack access to clean drinking water even as big-city houses and massive cattle farms suck the Colorado River dry. This graphic by Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee tells the story well. latimes.com/environment/st…

Before we start designing policy & regulatory “solutions” we need to understand what the real barriers are…

Bravo to Lewis (Zhaoyu) Wu EnergyAbe James Glynn Harrison Fell et al on this deep dive into the data & evidence.

#transmission #energytransition #electrification

Solar eclipse glasses prevent catastrophic eye damage when observing the sun. Here’s how they work trib.al/OhSIj3X

We’re less than three days away from the total solar eclipse that will be seen in the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson have a viewer’s guide on what you need to know. to.pbs.org/43RTO2z

A brief earthquake, reported by USGS at 4.8 intensity, rattled the NY Metro area at approximately 10:24am ET today, April 5. Here's what LDEO seismometers showed! Learn more about some of our earthquake research via State of the Planet: news.climate.columbia.edu/tag/earthquake…

A very engaging & candid conversation, featuring some heavy hitters in the Indo-US energy & climate space at ORF America led by Shayak Sengupta . The word needs to get out that Ind-US relationship will be the bedrock of a successful energy transition.

Interesting morning here in New York --- for a moment it felt like I was back in Japan. Hopefully everyone is ok and it is just an 'interesting' start to the day.

#earthquake

David Wogan, PhD🗼🍣👨🏻‍💻

nytimes.com/2024/04/05/nyr…

Was a great night at the NOVA | PBS 50th birthday party here in Boston. We managed to snag this photo in the green room before going on stage. Incredibly fun to meet and share the stage with Alok Patel Hakeem Oluseyi Miles O'Brien and more!

#sciencecommunicators