Energy Peace Partners co-founder and managing director Sherwin Das joins Molly Wood to explain how renewable energy can do more than cut emissions—it can also support peace, security, and economic opportunity in some of the hardest places in the world to build. They dig into the links between fossil fuel dependence and conflict, why clean power matters differently in parts of Africa where electricity access is still limited, and how a new kind of renewable energy credit is helping unlock investment for solar mini-grids, r...
Energy Peace Partners co-founder and managing director Sherwin Das joins Molly Wood to explain how renewable energy can do more than cut emissions—it can also support peace, security, and economic opportunity in some of the hardest places in the world to build. They dig into the links between fossil fuel dependence and conflict, why clean power matters differently in parts of Africa where electricity access is still limited, and how a new kind of renewable energy credit is helping unlock investment for solar mini-grids, run-of-river hydro, streetlights, hospitals, and jobs.
In this episode, we cover:- Why fossil fuels and conflict are so often connected—from global wars and supply shocks to local fuel supply chains controlled or taxed by armed groups
- Energy Peace Partners’ focus on countries with low electrification, high climate vulnerability, and conflict risk, including South Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Chad, Uganda, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo
- How renewable energy can improve safety, extend business hours, power hospitals, and create alternatives to joining armed groups
- The Peace Renewable Energy Credit, or P-REC: a high-impact renewable energy credit designed to help finance clean power in places traditional REC markets have overlooked
- Why off-grid and distributed renewable energy systems in Africa needed a new approach to verification, financing, and impact measurement
- How corporate buyers including Microsoft and Google have helped unlock more than $1.6 million through P-REC purchases so far
- The new P-REC Aggregation Facility, backed by the African Development Bank and Nordic Development Fund, and its goal of supporting dozens of new projects and first-time electricity access for hundreds of thousands of people
- How Energy Peace Partners measures peace impact using community-level data, baseline surveys, and the Positive Peace Framework
- Why renewable energy success should be measured not just in megawatts and carbon avoided, but also in safety, income, jobs, health, education, and stability
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- Peace Renewable Energy Credits: https://energypeacepartners.com/peace-rec/
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