InterDisciplinary Energy Analytics for Society (IDEAS)

Our research focuses on developing and planning for sustainable, inclusive and integrated energy systems and technologies for underserved communities, centering on promoting social development, and human empowerment. We use a multidiciplinary approach, incorporating data analytics, computational techniques, energy system modeling, and social science methods to build comprehensive models for integrated energy development, and systems planning. The outputs generated by these models serve as valuable tools to inform decision-making in energy, climate, and development

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Principal Investigator

June Lukuyu

Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UW

June Lukuyu earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2023. Prior to that, she earned her MSc. in Renewable Energy Systems Technologies from Loughborough University, UK in 2016 and her BS in Engineering Science from Smith College in 2013. She is a multidiciplinary researcher with broad interests at the intersection of energy, technology, climate and human empowerment. She is affiliated with the UW Clean Energy Institute. She is a co-PI with the Electricity Growth and Use in Developing Economies (e-GUIDE) initiative and also a fellow with the Energy for Growth Hub. She also serves on the board of Spark NorthWest, a Seattle-based non-profit organization with a mission to partner with communities to build an equitable clean energy future.

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Our Anchoring Perspectives


	Community Engagement	We firmly believe that underserved communities face different technical, socio-economic and political challenges which require tailored multidiciplinary approaches and meaningful engagement of communities to inform our objectives and methodolgies.
	Data-driven Decision making	We firmly believe that reliable, robust, and validated data are critical for informed planning, policy development, and investments, and that innovative technology and computing tools can bridge data gaps in data poor regions to address unique challenges in these settings.
	Transdisciplinary Action Research	We firmly believe that co-development and collaborative approaches that enable transdiciplinary academic and non-academic partners to work together throughout the research process maximizes the relevance of the research being undertaken to address real-world problems.
	Equity, Justice & Inclusion.	We firmly believe that it is crucial to account for how underserved communities impact or are impacted by our research methods, models, and outputs.

Recent Updates

September 2023: We welcome Eliane Nirere, Ahana Mukherjee and Kwame Donkor as the first cohort of Ph.D. students in IDEAS Research Group!