EE 559 Special Topics in Electrical Energy System

Sustainable Energy and Global Development

Spring 2023 Course Schedule: Mondays and Wednesdays 3.30 pm - 5.20 pm

Instructor: June Lukuyu, Office: EE M322, Email: jlukuyu@uw.edu

Overview

The United Nations adopted seventeen Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 (Figure 1) as a call to action to end global poverty, protect the planet, and ensure universal peace and prosperity by 2030. Universal access to affordable reliable, sustainable, and modern energy is crucial for achieving many of the other Sustainable Development Goals, from, improving clean cooking fuels, reducing inequities, curbing air pollution, improving food security, ensuring universal access to clean water, and supporting good health and well-being. This course will introduce the challenge of energy poverty in various parts of the world and explore the relationship between current and future energy needs and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The course will further delve into the links between energy and global systems such as climate, humanitarian action, economic globalization, and information, and technology flows in energy poor regions. Students will be exposed to cutting-edge research in energy, sustainability and development through research papers, in-class debates, discussions, and guest lectures.

Target Audience

The intended audience of this course is graduate students interested in learning more about the intersection of energy, development, and global systems. This is a research-oriented class. It's designed to bring people up to speed on the current state of global energy systems, and to gain experience with critical thinking and reflective practice.

Prerequisites

Willingness to participate in class discussions, ask questions and spend some time reading existing literature on different energy related topics.

Course Topics

This class is made of three components: Class discussions, Class debates, and Guest lectures encompassing the following topics:


Week 1	Energy Poverty and Sustainable Development Goals: An introduction
Week 2	Inequity in Global Energy Use and Role of Energy in Human Development
Week 3	Gender Dimensions of Energy Poverty
Week 4	Role of Energy in Health and Well-being
Week 5	Role of Energy in Agriculture, Food Security & Food Safety
Week 6	Role of Energy in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Week 7	Energy, Climate and Development: People and the Planet
Week 8	Beyond connections: Energy access, resiliency, reliability, and quality
Week 9	Energy, Conflict & War; Energy Access in Humanitarian Settings
Week 10	Energy Equity and Justice

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