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Why the phrase ‘energy leapfrogging’ is misleading

Catherine Wolfram, faculty co-director, Energy Institute at Haas | November 24, 2014

I have seen a number of blog posts, panel discussions and news articles that extol the idea of energy leapfrogging. A recent Business Week column on India described, “leapfrogging the nation’s ailing power-distribution infrastructure with solar-powered local networks — the same way mobile-phones have enabled people in poor, remote places to bypass landlines.” The dramatic … Continue reading »