Host Daniel Raimi talks with Professor Subhrendu Pattanayak of Duke University. Over the last several years, Subhrendu has literally trekked the Himalayas to do research on how to provide access to electricity for communities in hard-to-reach places. Daniel and Subhrendu talk about what policy and market factors might make it easier to expand energy access, and Subhrendu explains how dynamics within these communities can affect the likelihood of small-scale electricity projects to succeed or fail.

References and recommendations:

"Earth" by Lil Dicky; (explicit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvuN_WvF1to

"Power to the Poor" by Morgan D. Bazilian; https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/africa/2015-02-16/power-poor

"Reducing Risk for Private Investment in Off-Grid Energy" by Oliver Waissbein; https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/blog/2018/Reducing_risk_for_private_investment_in_off_grid_energy.html

"Energizing Finance 2017" Sustainable Energy for All; https://www.seforall.org/interventions/energizing-finance/energizing-finance-2017

"Energizing Finance 2018" Sustainable Energy for All; https://www.seforall.org/interventions/energizing-finance/energizing-finance-2018

"The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/43157/the-lorax-by-dr-seuss/9780394823379/