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EPIC-India Director Ken Lee on his experiment in Western Kenya comparing the experiences of rural households who had access to the grid. 

“A great appeal of the Biden proposal is that it is much closer to targeting carbon directly, which is the ultimate enemy, and plays fewer favorites with particular technologies,” said...

Steve Cicala speaks about electricity consumption during COVID-19 lockdowns.

A study by Yale’s Nicholas Ryan and coauthors, Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone, and Anant Sudarshan, finds that it may be counterproductive to view access to electricity as a right, rather...

In this podcast, Cicala details how electricity demand can serve as a valuable—if incomplete—tool to assess the health of the economy and the outlook for recovering from a recession.

President Trump frequently says he has ended the war on coal, but the industry's woes have only deepened under the president. Steve Cicala talks to E&E News about the shift...

After a drastic decline this spring, global greenhouse gas emissions are now rebounding sharply as countries relax their coronavirus lockdowns and traffic surges back onto roads. Steve Cicala weighs in.

EPIC's analysis tracks the decline in electricity consumption in the Permian Basin.