// Research PublicationsOver the course of my research career thus far, I've published more than 85 high-quality research reports, insights, briefs, memos etc on a myriad of clean energy markets, policy, and energy access related topics. Happy reading!
A note: Most of my work for Wood Mackenzie and GTM Research is behind a client paywall, but I encourage you to peruse this library of my published works to get a sense of my work and read the public access pieces. |
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Demand in the Dark: Estimating the true scale of unmet electricity demand in sub-Saharan Africa
September 2022 The Electricity Journal Sankalp Garg, Benjamin Attia, Brad Handler, Morgan Bazilian, Demand in the dark: Estimating the true scale of unmet electricity demand in Sub-Saharan Africa, The Electricity Journal, Volume 35, Issue 8, 2022, 107189, ISSN 1040-6190. [Link] |
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New Headwinds to Clean Energy: Four Crippling Squeezes on SDG7 and priorities to address them
August 2022 The Energy for Growth Hub Report [Link] |
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Belching in the Background: Sizing Africa's distributed power landscape and displacement opportunity
April 2022 Wood Mackenzie Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Why it's time for private transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa's electricity transmission sector
April 2022 Energy for Growth Hub Memo [PDF] |
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Business models to unlock private investment in Sub-Saharan Africa's electricity transmission sector
April 2022 Energy for Growth Hub Memo [PDF] |
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Utility 3.0: How Africa is remaking the grid
March 2022 Wood Mackenzie Horizons Insight |
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Five ways the African Continental Free Trade Agreement can de-risk the continent's power sector
January 2022 Energy for Growth Hub Memo [PDF] |
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Patchy Progress: Key Takeaways from the African Development Bank's Electricity Regulatory Index
November 2021 Energy for Growth Hub Memo [PDF] |
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Policy Brief: COVID-19 and Distributed Renewables: How the Crisis has Affected the Sector, and What It Means for People, the Planet, and the Future of Energy Access
December 2021 James E. Rogers Energy Access Project [PDF] |
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South Africa's renewable era revived with Bid Window 5: Low solar and wind bids and novel climate financing to accelerate coal phase-out
November 2021 Wood Mackenzie Research Insight [Client Paywall] |
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Beating the heat: Flickering power reliability in a warming Middle East
September 2021 Wood Mackenzie Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Commercial & Industrial Solar PV: Threat or Opportunity for KPLC?
September 2021 Energy for Growth Hub memo [Link] |
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The Commercial & Industrial Solar PV Landscape in the Middle East
August 2021 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Africa Solar PV Market Outlook Update
August 2021 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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South Africa's Solar Renaissance
June 2021 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Global Solar PV Market Outlook Update: Q1 2021
May 2021 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Global Solar PV Market Outlook Update: Q4 2020
Feb 2021 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Lessons for Modernizing Energy Access Finance, Part 2 - Balancing Competition and Subsidy: Assessing Mini-Grid Incentive Programs in sub-Saharan Africa
December 2020 Duke Energy Access Project Policy Brief |
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Renewables for the Mining Sector: Quantifying the Linked Drivers of Renewable Procurement and Decarbonization
December 2020 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Global Solar PV Asset Ownership Report 2020
December 2020 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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The commercial and industrial (C&I) solar PV landscape in Africa: A bottom-up analysis of emerging markets and drivers
November 2020 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Global Solar PV Market Outlook Update: Q3 2020
October 2020 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Middle East Solar PV Outlook 2020
September 2020 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Evaluating minigrid policies for rural electrification: Scoring regulatory risks as a precondition to investment
July 2020 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Unlocking Utilities of the Future in Sub-Saharan Africa
June 2020 Duke Global Working Paper Series Shirley, Rebekah and Attia, Benjamin, Unlocking Utilities of the Future in Sub-Saharan Africa (June 23, 2020). Duke Global Working Paper Series No. 24, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3634041 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3634041 |
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The missing piece to the integrated electrification puzzle: A bottom-up study of Kenya's energy access minigrid market
May 2020 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Global Solar PV Market Outlook Update: Q2 2020
May 2020 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Coronavirus: Disruption will reduce global solar PV additions by 18%
April 2020 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Insight [Client Paywall] |
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Foresight 20/20 Off-Grid renewables: Decentralization takes center stage
March 2020 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Insight [Public Download] |
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Part II: How Auctions Helped Solar Become the Cheapest Electricity in the World
Feb 2020 Georgetown Journal of International Affairs |
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Part I: How Auctions Helped Solar Become the Cheapest Electricity in the World
Feb 2020 Georgetown Journal of International Affairs |
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Global Solar PV Market Outlook Update: Q1 2020
Jan 2020 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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South Africa's IRP 2019: What's next for the country's power sector?
November 2019 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Global Solar PV Market Outlook Update: Q3 2019
October 2019 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Global solar PV asset ownership report and database 2019
October 2019 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] Press release with key takeaways: Link |
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Big Solar Bankability & Utility Performance can Benefit from Power Pools
September 2019 Energy for Growth Hub Memo |
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Middle East and Africa utility-scale solar PV system pricing 2019
August 2019 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Global Solar PV Market Outlook Update: Q2 2019
July 2019 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Global Solar PV Market Outlook Update: Q1 2019
April 2019 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Strategic investments in off-grid energy access: Scaling the utility of the future at the last mile
February 2019 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report in partnership with Energy 4 Impact [Public Download] |
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Solar-plus-storage in the Middle East and Africa: A Market Opportunity Assessment
January 2019 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall, free executive summary] |
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Global Solar PV Market Outlook Update: Q4 2018
January 2019 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Top 10 Barriers to Utility-Scale Solar in Sub-Saharan Markets
December 2018 Energy for Growth Hub Memo |
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Renewables in Israel: Key analyst takeaways from the Eilat-Eilot Renewable Energy Summit
December 2018 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Note [Client Paywall] |
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Competitive Auctions and Ultra-Low Solar Bids
November 2018 Energy for Growth Hub Memo |
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Global Solar PV Market Outlook Update: Q3 2018
October 2018 Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Middle East and Africa Solar PV Regional Market Outlook 2018
August 2018 GTM Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Global Solar Demand Monitor Q2 2018
August 2018 GTM Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Making Sense of Ultra-Low Solar Bids: How Low Can Tendered Prices Go?
July 2018 GTM Research Brief [Client Paywall] |
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China's Policy Shift: Impact on Pricing and Demand
June 2018 GTM Research Brief [Client Paywall] |
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Global Solar Demand Monitor Q1 2018
April 2018 GTM Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Retail Power Price Reform in the Middle East: Grid Competitive Solar's Way In?
April 2018 GTM Research Brief [Client Paywall] |
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Living in the Dark: Adaptive Learning for Rural Energy Development in Myanmar
January 2018 Mee Panyar Position Paper |
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Global Solar Demand Monitor Q4 2017
December 2017 GTM Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Asia-Pacific Regional Solar Market Dynamics H2 2017
October 2017 GTM Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Global Solar Demand Monitor Q3 2017
October 2017 GTM Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Evaluating the World Bank Group's Scaling Solar Program: Is it Unlocking High-Risk Markets?
August 2017 GTM Research Brief [Client Paywall] |
GTM Research: Global Solar Demand Monitor Q2 2017
(July 2017)
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Global Solar Demand Monitor Q2 2017
July 2017 GTM Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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The Top Runner Program as a Driver of Competitive, High-Efficiency Utility-Scale Demand in China
July 2017 GTM Research Brief [Client Paywall] |
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Trade Protectionism in the Global Solar Market
May 2017 GTM Research Brief [Client Paywall] |
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China's Poverty Alleviation Program as a Stable Driver of Demand
May 2017 GTM Research Brief [Client Paywall] |
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How China's NEA is De-Risking the Global PV Market by Diversifying Its Portfolio of Demand Drivers
May 2017 GTM Research Brief [Client Paywall] |
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Global Solar Demand Monitor Q1 2017
March 2017 GTM Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Community Participatory Equity as a Business Model for Village-Scale PV Microgrids
January 2017 Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Working paper Series |
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Urban Energy Transformation through Solar City Strategies
December 2016 Foundation for Renewable Energy & Environment Policy Brief Series |
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Global Solar Demand Monitor Q4 2016
November 2016 GTM Research Report [Client Paywall] |
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Financing Energy Access Through Community Participatory Equity: Building and Modeling a Multidimensional Energy Access Framework for Rural Community-level PV Micro-grids to Inform Market Entry Strategy
May 2016 University of Delaware Masters Thesis |
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Realizing Infrastructure-scale Finance in the Green Bond Market: Scoping Trends
April 2016 Foundation for Renewable Energy & Environment Policy Brief Series |
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Estimating Technical Potential for Rooftop Photovoltaics in California, Arizona, and New Jersey
March 2016 Renewable Energy |
Estimating the Technical Rooftop Potential in the State of Delaware (March 2016)
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Estimating the Technical Rooftop PV Potential in the State of Delaware
March 2016 Energy and Environmental Policy Analysis Program Report |
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Negotiated Solar Rights Conflict Resolution: A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Public and Private Processes
February 2016 Journal of Environmental and Sustainability Law |
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Indexing Industry Modularity using Direct Requirements Tables: A Quantitative Definition
October 2015 Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics Working Paper Series |
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Cost Reduction Strategies in the Solar Photovoltaic Industry: Economies of Scale in Soft Costs and Industry-level Modularity as Tools to Increase Competition
May 2015 University of Delaware Undergraduate Thesis |
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Envisioning State Regulatory Roles in the Provision of Energy Storage
June 2014 National Regulatory Research Institute Briefing Paper (No. 14-08) |
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A Review of Cost Comparisons and Policies in Utility-Scale and Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Projects
June 2014 National Regulatory Research Institute Briefing Paper (No. 14-05) |
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A Review of U.S. Clean Energy Policy and Korea-U.S. Clean Energy Cooperation after the U.S. Presidential Elections
August 2013 Center for Energy & Environmental Policy for Korean Energy Economics Institute |