Publications, Reports, and Briefs

• Patterns, Purchases, and Policy: Understanding Domestic Electricity Use in Rural and Peri-Urban Uganda
  2025 Household Energy Usage Energy Access Planning Uganda
• Electricity consumption: The role of grid reliability in appliance ownership and usage in Rwanda
  2025 Household Energy Usage Energy Access Planning Rwanda
• Operationalizing remote sensing methods for smallholder dry season irrigation detection in sub-Saharan Africa
  2025 Agriculture Uganda, Nigeria
• CWP Brief: Productive Uses of Energy (PUEs) Business Survey
  2025 Energy Access Planning Uganda
• CWP Brief: Irrigation on Smallholder Farms
  2025 Energy Access Planning Uganda
• CWP Brief: Cost-effectively Capturing non-Household Electricity Demands Catalytic to Rural Growth
  2025 Energy Access Planning Data Collection Uganda
• e-Guide Update: Two level network design model and its application in electrification
  2025 Energy Access Planning ICT Energy Kenya
• e-Guide Update: Productive Use of Energy: Role of Demand in Integrated Energy Planning
  2025 Energy Access Planning Global
• e-Guide Update: Managing Peak Demand Days to Reduce Mini-Grid Generation Costs
  2025 Urban Energy Planning Global
• e-Guide Update: Miscounting the Poor: How Survey Data Overstates Electricity Spending in Rwanda.
  2025 Data Collection Household Energy Usage Rwanda
• e-Guide Update: Irrigation in Zambia Eastern Province
  2025 ICT Energy Energy Access Planning Other
• e-Guide Update: Derisking Mini-Grid Generation Investment Through Diverse Load Integration
  2025 Energy Access Planning Uganda
• e-Guide Update: Standard Fuel Use and Uptake of e-cooking and e-boiling in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements
  2025 Cookstoves Household Energy Usage Drinking Water Kenya
• Post-Connection Electricity Demand and Pricing in Newly Electrified Households in Rwanda
  2025 Data Collection Household Energy Usage Rwanda
• How can grids/mini-grids and Solar Home Systems be mutually reinforcing for rapid access impact in 5 years
  2025 Energy Access Planning Tanzania
• 10 Years Long: Long Term Adoption in Rural Rwanda
  2024 Data Collection Household Energy Usage Innovations in Electricity Access Rwanda
• Electricity Systems Design for Standalone, Minigrid, Grid-Connected Configurations with Domestic and Flexible Irrigation Loads in Ethiopia
  2024 Energy Access Planning Ethiopia
• Monitoring the Impacts of Diruption Events on Agriculture through Irrigation Detection
  2024 Data Collection Ethiopia
• Electricity Outages in Uganda: Causes, Trends and Regional Disparities
  2024 Data Collection Innovations in Electricity Access Uganda
• Design of Chiller System with Thermal and Battery Storage for Enhanced Integration with On-Site PV
  2024 Renewable Integration Other
• e-Guide Update: Electricity Outages in Uganda: Trends and Disparities
  2024 ICT Energy Data Collection Uganda
• e-Guild Update: Understanding Rwanda Household Electricity Demand
  2024 Household Energy Usage Rwanda
• e-Guide Update: The role of grid reliability in appliance ownership in Rwanda
  2024 Data Collection Household Energy Usage Rwanda
• e-Guide Update: Predicting Levels of Household Electricity Consumption in Low-Access Settings
  2024 Household Energy Usage Data Collection Kenya
• e-Guide Update: e-Cooking in Informal Urban Settlements
  2024 Household Energy Usage Uganda, Kenya
• e-Guide Update: Identifying small-holder irrigation demand in Nigeria
  2024 Energy Access Planning ICT Energy Nigeria
• e-Guide Update: Detecting Unelectrified Communities
  2024 Data Collection Energy Access Planning Uganda
• e-Guide Update: Electric Cooking Demand in Rural Minigrid
  2024 Cookstoves Household Energy Usage Global
• Working DRAFT: Lessons from the adoption of LPG, PNG, and electricity for clean cooking
  2024 Cookstoves Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Senegal
• Sizing of chillers with thermal and battery storage for enhanced integration with on-site PV
  2024 Renewable Integration Other
• A novel algorithm for optimal equipment scheduling and dispatch of chilled water systems with ice thermal storage
  2024 Renewable Integration Global
• 10 Years After: Long-Term Adoption of Electricity in Rural Rwanda
  2024 Innovations in Electricity Access Rwanda
• Electricity Consumption: The role of grid reliability in appliance ownership in Rwanda
  2024 Household Energy Usage Rwanda
• Rwanda's Path to Universal Electricity Access: Consumption Trends, Tariff Impact, and Challenges Ahead
  2024 Data Collection Energy Access Planning Rwanda
• Differential effects of climate change on average and peak demand for heating and cooling across the contiguous USA
  2023 Data Collection United States
• A data-driven approach for the disaggregation of building-sector heating and cooling loads from hourly utility load data
  2023 Data Collection United States
• PowerScour: Tracking Electrified Settlements Using Satellite Data
  2022 Energy Access Planning Data Collection Kenya
• The role of electrification induced peak loads and gas infrastructure constraints on decarbonization pathways in New York State
  2022 Renewable Integration United States
• Decarbonizing the electricity sector in Qatar using PV combined with ice thermal and battery storage
  2022 Renewable Integration Other
• Solar for small-holder farms made affordable though innovative co-design and financing-lessons learnt
  2022 Renewable Integration Innovations in Electricity Access Senegal
• Diesel GenSat: using satellite data to detect diesel-powered irrigation for guiding electrification in Ethiopia
  2022 Innovations in Electricity Access Ethiopia
• A Multiscale Spatiotemporal Approach for Smallholder Irrigation Detection
  2022 Data Collection Ethiopia
• Assessing Trade-offs Among Electrification and Grid Decarbonization in a Clean Energy Transition
  2022 Renewable Integration United States
• Predicting Levels of Household Electricity Consumption in Low-Access Settings
  2021 Household Energy Usage Kenya
• Decarbonization Pathways for Paraguay’s Energy Sector
  2021 Renewable Integration Other
• Estimating Electricity Distribution Costs Using Historical Data
  2021 ICT Energy Other
• Promoting Reproducibility and Increased Collaboration in Electric Sector Capacity Expansion Models with Community Benchmarking and Intercomparison Efforts
  2021 Energy Access Planning Other
• Impacts of COVID-19 Related Stay-At-Home Restrictions on Residential Electricity Use and Implications for Future Grid Stability
  2021 Household Energy Usage NYC Energy United States
• How unprecedented was the February 2021 Texas cold snap?
  2021 ICT Energy United States
• Short-Term Apartment-Level Load Forecasting Using a Modified Neural Network with Selected Auto-Regressive Features
  2021 Household Energy Usage United States
• A Scalable Framework to Measure the Impact of Spatial Heterogeneity on Electrification
  2020 Data Collection Kenya, Global
• Residential Electricity Conservation in Response to Auto-Generated, Multi-Featured, Personalized Eco-Feedback Designed for Large Scale Applications with Utilities
  2020 Household Energy Usage United States
• Irrigation Detection by Car
  2020 Data Collection Computer Vision Senegal
• MFRED, 10 Second Interval Real and Reactive Power for Groups of 390 US Apartments of Varying Size and Vintage
  2020 Household Energy Usage United States
• Achieving Deep Emission Reductions from Space Heating in the U.S.
  2020 Household Energy Usage United States
• Learning to Segment from Misaligned and Partial Labels
  2020 Data Collection Global, United States
• How do we heat our homes in the US?
  2020 Household Energy Usage United States
• New Data Suggest COVID-19 is Shifting the Burden of Energy Costs to Households
  2020 Data Collection Household Energy Usage United States
• Cost-Optimal Sizing and Operation of a Hybrid Heat Pump System Using Numerical Simulation
  2020 Natural Gas United States
• A Stochastic Framework to Evaluate the Impact of Agricultural Load Flexibility on the Sizing of Renewable Energy Systems
  2020 Renewable Integration Other
• Tackling Energy Poverty
  2019 Development Goals United States, Global
• Electricity Load Implications of Space Heating Decarbonization Pathways
  2019 Household Energy Usage United States
• Assessing New Transmission and Energy Storage in Achieving Increasing Renewable Generation Targets in a Regional Grid
  2019 Renewable Integration United States
• Existing and Projected Infrastructure Capacities Motivate Alternatives to 'All-Electric' Heating Decarbonization
  2019 Data Collection Renewable Integration United States
• Global trends in urban electricity demands for cooling and heating
  2019 Urban Energy Planning Global
• Low-voltage System Designs for Energy Access
  2019 Renewable Integration Uganda
• Optimizing CO2 emissions from heating and cooling and from the materials used in residential buildings, depending on their geometric characteristics
  2019 Household Energy Usage Global
• Value of pumped hydro storage in a hybrid energy generation and allocation system
  2019 Energy Access Planning Other
• Initial layout of power distribution systems for rural electrification
  2019 Energy Access Planning Other
• The Value of Energy Flexibility
  2019 Renewable Integration United States
• Future Energy Scenarios with Distributed Technology Options for Residential City Blocks in Three Climate Regions of the United States
  2019 Urban Energy Planning United States
• Nigeria (NEAP-1, Kano) Project Report
  2019 Energy Access Planning Nigeria
• Nigeria (NEAP-2, Kaduna) Project Report
  2019 Energy Access Planning Nigeria
• Myanmar National Electrification Plan (NEP)
  2019 Energy Access Planning Other
• Impact of Deep Wind Power Penetration on Variability at Load Centers
  2018 Renewable Integration United States
• Examining Ice Storage and Solar PV as a Potential Push Toward Sustainability for Qatar
  2018 Data Collection Renewable Integration Other
• A longitudinal study of electricity consumption growth in Kenya
  2018 Household Energy Usage Kenya
• A Geospatial Framework for Electrification Planning in Developing Countries
  2018 Energy Access Planning Tanzania, Ghana, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya
• Spatial Distribution of Urban Building Energy Consumption by End Use
  2018 Urban Energy Planning NYC Energy United States
• The African Millennium Villages
  2018 Development Goals Kenya, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda
• Measuring Energy Access Supporting a Global Target
  2018 Millennium Development Goals Development Goals Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Senegal
• Improving Access to Modern Energy Services: Insights from Case Studies
  2018 Millennium Development Goals Development Goals Ghana, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda
• Energy Access for Development
  2018 ICT Energy Global
• Improving Electricity Services in Rural India
  2018 Household Energy Usage Other
• Estimation of Daily Total and Diffuse Insolation in India from Weather Data
  2018 Data Collection Other
• Rechargeable PowerPack Description - 2005
  2018 Innovations in Electricity Access PowerPack Kenya
• Rechargeable PowerPack BOM - 2005
  2018 Innovations in Electricity Access PowerPack Kenya
• A Prepaid Architecture for Solar Electricity Delivery In Rural Areas
  2018 Innovations in Electricity Access Shared Solar Uganda
• Measuring Energy Poverty: Focusing on What Matters
  2018 Household Energy Usage Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda
• Simulations of Efficiency Improvements using Measured Microgrid Data
  2018 Innovations in Electricity Access Shared Solar Uganda
• Reducing Generation, Transmission and Distribution Inefficiencies and the Feasibility of Low Voltage Supply in LICs
  2017 ICT Energy Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Senegal
• How ICT (Information and Communications Technology) is poised to transform delivery of energy services
  2017 ICT Energy United States
• Electricity Access in Emerging and Developing Countries
  2017 Energy Access Planning Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya
• Nigeria's health, education and water facility inventory
  2017 Development Goals NMIS Nigeria
• SharedSolar: Project Update 2017
  2017 Innovations in Electricity Access Shared Solar Uganda
• Acacia Irrigation: Project Update 2017
  2017 Innovations in Electricity Access Acacia Irrigation Senegal
• A toolkit for geospatial electrification planning
  2017 Energy Access Planning Global
• Quench - ensuring water access and visibility for every liter dispensed
  2017 Drinking Water Quench Global
• Dokomo Forms
  2017 Data Collection Global
• Benefits of forecasting and energy storage in isolated grids with large wind penetration – The case of Sao Vicente
  2017 Renewable Integration Other
• Experimental and analytical investigation of hydronic system retrofits in an urban high-rise mixed use building
  2017 Urban Energy Planning United States
• Current and near-term GHG emissions factors from electricity production for New York State and New York City
  2017 Renewable Integration NYC Energy United States
• Examination of the optimal operation of building scale combined heat and power systems under disparate climate and GHG emissions rates
  2017 Renewable Integration United States
• Modeling wind power curtailment with increased capacity in a regional electricity grid supplying a dense urban demand
  2016 Renewable Integration NYC Energy United States
• Can Electricity Pricing Save India’s Groundwater? Field Evidence from a Novel Policy Mechanism in Gujarat
  2016 Drinking Water Other
• ICT and the Sustainable Development Goals
  2016 Millennium Development Goals Development Goals Senegal, Kenya, Nigeria
• Demand Side Management Using Agriculture
  2016 ICT Energy United States
• Hybrid Energy Generation and Allocation System with Pumped Hydro Storage
  2016 Renewable Integration Other
• The Rise of the Personal Power Plant
  2016 Innovations in Electricity Access Shared Solar United States
• Potential for Regional Use of East Africa’s Natural Gas
  2016 Natural Gas Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia
• Potential for Regional Use of East Africa’s Natural Gas: Workshop Summary
  2016 Natural Gas Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia
• Cost versus reliability sizing strategy for isolated photovoltaic micro-grids in the developing world
  2016 Innovations in Electricity Access Shared Solar Other
• Electrification planning using Network Planner tool: The case of Ghana
  2016 Energy Access Planning Ghana
• The Economics of Clean Energy Resource Development and Grid Interconnection in Africa
  2016 Renewable Integration Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria
• Data-driven Local Planning at National Scale: How data collected on mobile phones enable a Conditional Grants Scheme in Nigeria
  2016 Data Collection NMIS Nigeria
• A stochastic model for a macroscale hybrid renewable energy system
  2016 Renewable Integration Other
• Liberia Project Report: National Electrification Master Plan
  2016 Energy Access Planning Other
• Improving Data Collection and Monitoring through Real-time Data Analysis
  2016 Data Collection Global
• Energy for Sustainable Development
  2016 Renewable Integration Senegal
• Battery storage: Comparing shared to individually owned storage given rural demand profiles of a cluster of customers.
  2016 Innovations in Electricity Access Shared Solar Uganda
• Cellular Citizenship
  2016 Data Collection NMIS Nigeria
• Development of a spatial model and case study of Kenya
  2016 Energy Access Planning Kenya
• Lessons On Authoring Infrastructure Surveys at Scale
  2016 Data Collection NMIS Nigeria, Global
• Testing Biomass Cookstoves in Rural Kenya
  2016 Cookstoves Millennium Villages Project Kenya
• Senegal Final Report
  2016 Millennium Development Goals Development Goals Senegal
• Lessons On Authoring Multiple Choice Survey Questions
  2016 Data Collection NMIS Global
• Improved Cookstoves Decrease Wood Gathering and Increase Savings Rates
  2016 Cookstoves Millennium Villages Project Other
• Energy Services for the Millennium Development Goals
  2016 Development Goals Kenya, Tanzania
• Lessons On Enumerator Training
  2016 Data Collection NMIS Nigeria, Global
• Investigation of Stove Performance in Households in Southwestern Uganda
  2016 Cookstoves Millennium Villages Project Uganda
• Potential for Regional Use of East Africa’s Natural Gas: Project Summary 2014
  2016 Natural Gas Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia
• Off-grid energy services for the poor: Introducing LED lighting in the Millennium Villages Project in Malawi
  2016 LED Lighting Millennium Villages Project Other
• SharedSolar: Project Summary 2014
  2016 Innovations in Electricity Access Shared Solar Uganda, Ghana
• Acacia Irrigation: Project Summary 2014
  2016 Innovations in Electricity Access Acacia Irrigation Senegal
• Infrastructure from the Bottom Up
  2016 ICT Energy Millennium Villages Project Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
• Sustainable Energy Solutions Program In West Africa Paves Way For Future Development
  2016 Education Sustainable Energy Solutions Program Other
• Quench: Project Summary 2014
  2016 Drinking Water Quench Global
• Using SMS to monitor Malaria in Uganda
  2016 Data Collection Uganda
• NMIS: Project summary
  2016 NMIS Data Collection Nigeria
• Dristhi: Project summary
  2016 Dristhi Data Collection Other
• Field testing and survey evaluation of household biomass cookstoves in rural sub-Saharan Africa
  2016 Cookstoves Millennium Villages Project Uganda, Tanzania
• Food: Where water and energy meet
  2016 Innovations in Electricity Access Acacia Irrigation Other
• The Impact of Geography on Energy Infrastructure Costs
  2016 ICT Energy Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda
• Development Planning Toolkit
  2016 ICT Energy Other
• Rural household energy consumption in the Millennium Villages in Sub-Saharan Africa
  2016 Household Energy Usage Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
• Open Data Kit
  2016 Data Collection Other
• Geography of Infrastructure Functionality at Schools in Nigeria
  2016 ICT Energy Nigeria
• Energy Access and Economic Growth: How can Science and Technology Help?
  2015 Energy Access Planning Uganda
• Understanding the cause and consequences of differential decision-making in adaption research: adapting to a delayed monsoon onset in Gujarat, India
  2015 Data Collection Other
• Potential for increased wind-generated electricity utilization using heat pumps in urban areas
  2014 Urban Energy Planning Renewable Integration NYC Energy United States
• Impacts on New York GHG Emissions From Distributed Combined Heat and Power
  2014 Household Energy Usage NYC Energy United States
• Calibrated building energy models for community-scale sustainability analyses
  2014 Household Energy Usage Urban Energy Planning NYC Energy United States
• Spherical gradient index (GRIN) lenses and their uses in solar concentration
  2014 Data Collection Global
• Combined heat and power's potential to meet New York City's sustainability goals
  2014 Urban Energy Planning NYC Energy United States
• Accelerating the global transformation to 21st century power systems
  2013 Innovations in Electricity Access Renewable Integration Global
• Local and National Electricity Planning in Senegal: Scenarios and Policies
  2013 Energy Access Planning Senegal
• Sustainable development goal for energy and information and communications technologies
  2013 ICT Energy Global
• National Electricity Planning in Settings with Low Pre-Existing Grid Coverage: Development of a Spatial Model and Case Study of Kenya
  2013 Energy Access Planning Kenya
• Planar single-element gradient-index solar lenses for concentrator photovoltaics
  2012 Data Collection Global
• Initial layout of power distribution systems of rural electrification: A heuristic algorithm for multilevel network design
  2012 Energy Access Planning Data Collection Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda
• Potential for distributed combined heat and power in an urban environment
  2012 Data Collection Urban Energy Planning NYC Energy United States
• Wind Energy and Compressed Air Energy Storage Potential for New York City
  2012 Renewable Integeration Natural Gas NYC Energy United States
• Realizable planar gradient-index solar lenses
  2012 Data Collection Global
• An energy vison: the transformation toward sustainability-- interconnected challenges and solution
  2012 Development Goals Innovations in Electricity Access Global
• Jatropha adoption: a statistical observational study of factors influencing Malian farmers’ decision to grow Jatropha
  2012 Agriculture Other
• Working Paper: A Rapid, Low-cost Testing Procedure for Measuring Light Output of Portable Lanterns with Results for Five Rechargeable LED Lantern Models
  2011 LED Lighting Ghana, Nigeria
• Charcoal, Construction, and Coffins: Tracing Links from Disasters to Deforestation in Haiti
  2010 Agriculture Other
• Every Child Counts
  2009 Development Goals Kenya
• Investigation of Stove Performance in Households in Southwest Uganda
  2009 Household Energy Usage Uganda