This two-day event on March 24 - 25, 2025 will feature multiple keynotes and 50+ breakout sessions over 9 tracks that will highlight a wide range of topics. These include grid integration, battery supply chains, energy storage, artificial intelligence and energy, biotech, global energy innovations, insurance, finance and investment, circularity, power generation and data centers, hydrogen, transportation, and more.

Join Duke’s Global Energy Access Network (GLEAN) for a Networking Mixer in Washington, DC! Connect with Duke alums, students, and industry professionals working in energy, emerging economies, and development. Enjoy free appetizers & drinks while networking and discussing energy access, climate finance, and global transitions. RSVP by February 27!

Join us in Gross Hall for a discussion on energy modernization and economic development in South Sudan. Connect with thought leaders like former NBA star and advocate Luol Deng, renowned human rights champion John Prendergast, and Duke alumnus and social innovator Anteneh Addisu. Register to attend; food and refreshments will be provided. 

Hosted by the Nicholas Institute and James E. Rogers Energy Access Project in partnership with the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Africa Initiative at Duke Global.

As climate change intensifies, many low- and middle-income countries face a precarious balancing act between addressing urgent climate adaptation and development needs and pursuing clean energy transitions. While these two objectives can be complementary, they also create challenging choices around meeting human development imperatives and decommissioning or avoiding fossil development. This panel will unpack these choices, and present energy transition strategies that put human flourishing at the center. This event is organized by Duke University and will be presented on the Main Stage of the Nest Climate Campus during Climate Week NYC.

As the world accelerates its shift toward sustainable energy sources, investors face both significant opportunities and complex challenges. This conversation will focus on recent trends in both the US and emerging markets and how they intersect, how investment can drive both economic development and environmental sustainability, and how to ensure that the benefits of the energy transition are widely shared.

Students, staff, and faculty, are you interested in energy access? Join the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project to explore the exciting world of energy access work at Duke! Discover how you can get involved and make an impact, gain insights, network, and learn about opportunities in the field.

Featuring presentations from students who worked on access-related projects last summer, including some from the Energy Internship Program.

Light dinner will be provided after the event.

Graduate students worldwide are invited to compete in the 12th Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition, sponsored by the Duke Fuqua MBA Energy Club and the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project at Duke University. The Competition is part Energy Week at Duke University which brings industry experts, community organizers, government officials, and students to discuss the energy-climate nexus and explore the ways in which energy both contributes to climate change and can be a major solution.

Are you a Duke University alum with plans (or potential plans) to attend Climate Week NYC (September 22-29) or the UNFCCC’s Conference of Parties (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan (November 11-22)? Duke University experts will again take part in these important convenings alongside climate thought leaders and decision-makers from across the world—and we are eager to connect with other Duke community members who will be there.

Join this virtual town hall to hear about the Duke community’s plans for these events. Hosted by the Office of Climate and Sustainability and the Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability.

Alix Peterson Zwane is executive in residence with the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project at Duke University at the Nicholas Institute. All current Duke students are invited to attend. Seating is limited and lunch will be provided.

This Reunion Weekend 2024, register to attend this hybrid event from the Duke Alumni Forever Learning Institute's Energy Transformation series in-person at Reynolds Theater or virtually via Zoom. In this penultimate session, Duke experts will discuss the interconnected nature of climate and human development policies and goals. Jonathan Phillips, director of the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project, is among the featured guest speakers for this session.

Are you a Duke alum in the DC area with an interest in energy access and advancing a just energy transition in emerging economies? Come exchange insights and make new connections with other professionals and Duke students during this networking session. Snacks and drinks will be served!

All current Duke students are invited to attend lunch with Andrea Johnson, executive director at Green Empowerment. Registration is limited, so make sure to save your seat.

This event is presented by the James E. Rogers Access Project and Global Energy Access Network (GLEAN) at Duke University.

Decarbonizing the electric power system and electrifying transportation, cooking, heating, and other energy uses will require massive infrastructure development. Reducing carbon dioxide emissions will lower the chances of catastrophic climate change, reduce air pollution, and create other valuable co-benefits. But, at the same time, this transition will require significant land-use changes with the potential to disrupt numerous landscapes, ecosystems, and ways of thinking and living.

Duke students are invited to join an in-person session with Omer Bomba Mohammed, Managing Partner at Veritas Consulting. Discuss innovative solutions that are making a difference in the battle against energy poverty. This event is presented by the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project and Global Energy Access Network (GLEAN) at Duke University.

*** This event is now full, but you can sign up for the waitlist. In addition, you can register to network with symposium attendees at an Energy Mix on Oct. 26 at 4:30 p.m. ET. ***

This single-track, in-person event will explore leading approaches to how data science tools, including artificial intelligence, can help us make energy systems more accessible, affordable, reliable, and environmentally sustainable.

Students, staff, and faculty, are you interested in energy access? Join the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project to explore the exciting world of energy access work at Duke! Discover how you can get involved and make an impact, gain insights, network, and learn about opportunities in the field.

Featuring presentations from students who worked on access-related projects last summer, including some from the Energy Internship Program.

Research and policy workshop on energy access, climate policy, and economic development in the Global South. Organized by the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI), an international network that includes experts from the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project (EAP) at Duke.

Duke University's Rethinking Diplomacy Program is hosting a timely discussion on climate diplomacy with Ambassador Robert O. Blake, former senior advisor to US envoy for climate change John Kerry. This webinar is organized in collaboration with Duke's Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability; James E. Rogers Energy Access Project; and Sanford School of Public Policy.