Blogs
2025 February: EMP-Global Impact #8 Sultan Turut Balioglu
Sultan is a senior energy expert and energy lawyer in the Turkish Energy Market Regulatory Authority where she has worked for almost 15 years. She attended the EMP-G at ICTP in Trieste in September 2024 to study the Electricity Transition Playbook pathway, which is where we spoke to her.
2025 February: Sugandha Srivastav shares her research into corruption.
CCG’s Sugandha Srivastav has been undertaking research into the availability and transparency of energy contracts and data. In some cases a lack of openness points to potential corruption which may be artificially inflating prices for the ordinary person. ‘
2025 February: Story behind the paper: Adam Hawkes on: MUSE: An open-source agent-based integrated assessment modelling framework
CCG Director of Research, Adam Hawkes, is part of the team who wrote the above paper presenting MUSE, a new modelling framework which has been successfully trialled in the UK and Brazil.
2025 February: EMP-Global Impact #7 Fynn Kiley
Fynn led the MAED track at the EMP-G in Trieste during August 2024. We caught up with him at the end of the intensive programme to hear his reflections on the students he had supported and the projects they’d worked on.
2025 January: The story behind the paper with Steve Pye
In the week when Russian gas ceased to flow into Europe via Ukrainian transit routes, a new paper in Nature Communications explored future prospects for Russian gas exports given a near complete shutdown of the European market, which in 2021, accounted for 66% of its pipeline exports. We talk to Steve Pye to find out more about the inspiration for the paper, the experience of working with a new team and the implications of the work for other stakeholders.
2025 January: The story behind the paper with Fernando Plazas Nino
Fernando Plazas Nino discusses the paper: “Informing sustainable energy policy in developing countries: An assessment of decarbonization pathways in Colombia using open energy system optimization modelling” which he wrote with CCG colleagues R. Yeganyan, C. Cannone, M. Howells and J. Quirós-Tortós. It was published in ScienceDirect Volume 50.
2025 January: EMP-Global Impact #6 Arinaitwe Prossie:
‘Prossie’ is a Power System Engineer with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, Uganda. She works mainly in the Rural Electrification Department which was formerly the Rural Electrification Agency. ‘Prossie’ followed the MAED track at the EMP-G in Trieste in September 2024 which is where she spoke to CCG’s Peter Allen.
2025 January: EMP-Global Impact #5 Peace Peters from Nigeria discusses his entrepreneurial plans and ambitions to tackle the climate crisis. We spoke to him at the EMP-G in 2024 where he was studying the Electricity Transition Playbook.
2024 December: CCG Bootcamps add another dimension to Capacity-Building Rudolf Yeganyan explains the purpose of the newly launched CCG Bootcamps – a capacity-building tool for teams working on real-world clean energy projects.
2024 December: Looking back at COP29 from a Transport point of view. Holger Dalkmann, CCG’s lead on Sustainable Transport, attended COP in Azerbaijan as part of our small team. He shares his reflections in this blog, plus some hopes for what might happen at next year’s COP.
2024 November: EMP-Global Impact #4 – Felix Akello – We speak to Felix Akello, who is an Energy and Environment Specialist working with the County Government of Kisumu – one of 47 sub-national governments in Kenya. Kisumu County hosts the City of Kisumu which is the third largest city in the country. At Trieste, Felix followed the Energy Access Explorer track.
2024 November: EMP-Global Impact #3 – Cynthia Omondi – Cynthia is a PhD student from Kenya, keen to support her country’s clean energy transition and also determined to help others with her own not-for-profit.
2024 October: Women in Energy Modelling Webinar is a Big Success: Vivien Foster reflects on the panel discussion on the barriers to women in this space and how we can support each other.
2024 October: Meet the team behind the paper: Carla Cannone and Elizabeth Tennyson discuss “Addressing challenges in long-term strategic energy planning in LMICs”.
2024 October: EMP-Global Impact #2 – Nathan Awuapila. Nathan Awuapila has worked for the Energy Commission of Nigeria for 14 years and here he discusses his work with energy modelling tools including MAED and MESSAGE.
2024 October: Meet the CCG Team #3 – Dr Karla Cervantes Barrón. Karla has worked in CCG since the beginning. At CCG she is involved in a variety of themes, including leading or overseeing several projects on energy and material efficiency as well as co-leading CCG’s Critical Minerals work.
2024 October: Catching up on Zambia with Clement Sichimwa
2024 September: Energy Modelling Global (EMP-G) Impact #1: Joan Thaundi from Malawi discusses her country’s energy challenges and opportunities.
2024 September: GIS-based method for assessing the viability of solar-powered irrigation. Daniel Mwendwa discusses a new paper he has helped to author.
2024 September: Meet the CCG Team #2 – Dr Alex Money
2024 June: Meet the CCG Team #1 – Prof Sam Fankhauser
2024 June: Women in Climate Change 9 – Prof Winnie Mitullah
2024 May: Women in Climate Change 8 – Sukriti Sharma
2024 April: Stimulating Energy Demand in LMICs – Julia Tomei and Iwona Bisaga
2024 April: Women in Climate Change 7 – Dr Alycia Leonard
2024 April: Women in Climate Change 6 – Doris Edem Agbevivi
2024 March: Women in Climate Change 5 – Mulima Nyambe-Mubanga
2024 March: Kenya CCG Network Annual Workshop 2024 – Dr Beth Tennyson
2024 February: Women in Climate Change 4 – Ms Mungu Foster Chileshe
2024 February: Women in Climate Change 3 – Sarah Odera
2024 February: The India CCG Network Inception Workshop 2024 – Chennai: Beth Tennyson
2024 January: Women in Climate Change 2 – Dr Kuthea Ngoti
2024 January: Women in Climate Change 1 – Malindi Msoni
2023 May: My Real CCG Experience: The true heroes behind my story – Michelle Akute
2021 Nov: Seven reasons global transport is so hard to decarbonise, The Conversation UK.
2021 Jan: How to create twice as many jobs by integrating climate policies in COVID-19 economic recovery packages – An illustration from Cyprus.
2020 Sept: Integrating climate policies in COVID-19 economic recovery packages – An example from Cyprus.
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