// Research PublicationsOver the course of my career thus far, I've published 85+ 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 published 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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Transition Centers of Expertise: Renewable Power
April 2024 BlackRock Pinner, D., Everitt, M., Kaminker, C., Attia, B. (2024). Transition Center of Expertise: Renewable Power Mobility. BlackRock. [Link] |
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Transition Center of Expertise: Land Mobility
January 2024 BlackRock Pinner, D., Everitt, M., Kaminker, C., Attia, B. (2024). Transition Center of Expertise: Land Mobility. BlackRock. [Link] |
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Transition Center of Expertise: Batteries
November 2023 BlackRock Pinner, D., Everitt, M., Attia, B. (2023). Transition Center of Expertise: Batteries. BlackRock. [Link] |
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Emerging Markets: Financing the Transition
November 2023 BlackRock Investment Institute Investment Perspectives Attia, B., Kaminker, C., Bouyssi, A., Sabio, N., Dittman, A., Weber, C. (2023). Emerging Markets: Financing the Transition. BlackRock Investment Institute. [Link] |
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Tracking the Low-Carbon Transition
July 2023 BlackRock Investment Institute Investment Perspectives Brazier, A., Hu, D., Kaminker, C., Segafredo, L., Weber, C., Adams, K., Attia, B., Bouyssi, A., Greenleaf, J., Smith, E. (2023). Investment Perspectives: Tracking the Low Carbon Transition. BlackRock Investment Institute.[Link] |
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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
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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 |