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To protect the systems they manage, utilities and grid operators first need to know which hazards could harm them.

• 01/11/2024
• Dean Gluckman, Rodrigo Chaparro

Colombia is making historic strides towards achieving carbon neutrality with a goal of 100 percent national energy access by 2030 to meet its revised Nationally Determined Contribution.

• 12/13/2022
• Ipshita Nandi Banerjee, Johanna Koolemans-Beynen

On November 16, 2020, a major climate change-induced disaster occurred: Hurricane Iota struck Providencia and Santa Catalina with winds of up to 240 kilometers per hour

• 05/11/2022
• Thomas Black, Ricardo Ramirez, Michael Ingram, Jairo Gutierrez, Daniella Rough , Johanna Koolemans-Beynen, Emily Klos

Electric utilities in developing countries are vital agents in the fight against the changing climate

• 04/27/2022
• Julia De la Cruz , Elena Ivanova, Kathy Julik-Heine, Abbey Pizel

The increasing threat of climate change highlights the importance of reusable, efficient energy sources and power grid resilience.

• 03/10/2022
• Melissa Trimble, USAID

Over the course of 2021, the Climatelinks community contributed over 140 blogs on topics from youth climate action to a new wave of private investment for climate solutions.

• 12/09/2021
• Sophie Schrader

As one of the most densely populated countries in the world, Bangladesh understands how critical a reliable energy supply is to the country's growth. However, Bangladesh is currently dependent on a waning natural gas supply and has reached a point where it must evaluate energy independent paths that are sustainable, cost-effective, and ensure long-term domestic energy supply. 

• 05/11/2021
• Isabel McCan, Carishma Gokhale-Welch

South Asia, home to a quarter of the world’s population and a major energy consumer with some of the fastest-growing economies in the world, is also home to some of the greatest climate disasters.

• 04/20/2021
• Ipshita Nandi Banerjee

When the government of India set a goal of deploying 175 gigawatts of renewable power by 2022, they understood that changes to their power system's operations were needed to achieve that level of renewable power on the grid. India decided to work with USAID and the United States Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop a comprehensive grid integration study identifying operational pathways that would enable India to efficiently meet its renewable energy target.

• 02/20/2020
• Isabel McCan

In March 2019, the Government of Haiti released an official request for proposals as part of a broader plan to support the development of minigrids. Minigrids generally involve small-scale electricity generation and can advance energy transitions in rural areas by enabling a power supply for communities lacking reliable electricity.

• 09/26/2019
• Alexis Powers, Sadie Cox