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Energy Opportunity Lab

Developing sustainable, accessible energy solutions

The Energy Opportunity Lab identifies specific ideas that respond to environmental and market needs to empower people and communities with sustainable and accessible energy solutions. 

Mission

To work with communities to improve opportunities for sustainable energy inclusion, innovation, and growth. The Lab also supports progress toward the overall goal of a just energy transition to low-carbon energy.

Goals

  • Find solutions: Create a multidisciplinary, multifunctional platform to advance energy access and opportunity worldwide. 
  • Further research: Create an environment and framework to connect world-class research with operators to develop more effective, scalable energy applications.
  • Identify and create specific, tangible ideas: Respond to environmental and market needs to empower people and communities with sustainable and accessible energy solutions.

International approach

Energy use in developing countries is rising fast, but historically, they have contributed just a small fraction of the existing carbon in the atmosphere. They also bear the brunt of the effects of a warming planet. Internationally, EOL will address barriers that low and middle income countries face that hinder access to clean energy solutions while supporting rapid economic growth. EOL will help developing economies navigate a fair and just path in their energy transitions.   

Domestic approach

In the US, poorer households and households of color consume less energy than the average household. At the same time they spend a greater share of their income—roughly three times more than non–low-income households—on energy. They also have less access to the benefits of the transition to low-carbon energy systems. EOL will develop solutions and partner with communities across the US to address the energy disparities and burdens facing disadvantaged communities that block their opportunities for growth and prosperity in the energy transition.

Partnerships

The initiative will work closely with a broad range of partners and stakeholders, both in the US and abroad. It will build off of and support work by others in this area, from across Columbia University as well as in  industry, government, civil society, and academia, in order to advance sound and constructive energy and climate solutions in the real world. The Energy Opportunity Lab will form multidisciplinary partnerships that create solutions and foster cooperation.

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September 27, 2024 • 9:00 am - 12:30 pm edt

Energy Opportunity Forum

The Center on Global Energy Policy is pleased to host the second annual Energy Opportunity Forum.

Event • The Forum at Columbia University, 601 W 125th St, New York
Energy Opportunity Forum
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