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#50 Sanya Detweiler is Associate Director of the Clinton Climate Initiative’s Islands Energy Program

Apr 3, 2020
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Sanya Detweiler is Associate Director of the Clinton Climate Initiative’s Islands Energy Program, which provides technical assistance to island nations to advance their transition to renewable energy. The Islands Energy Program has worked in fifteen islands in the Caribbean and Indian Ocean. Sanya has been spearheading the team’s solar microgrid projects in Puerto Rico since the devastating 2017 hurricane season.

Sanya previously worked in solar for the nationwide residential solar company, Sunrun, and as a volunteer team leader for GRID Alternatives. Prior to that, she worked on clean cookstove projects, primarily in Central and South America and Southeast Asia. Sanya has a B.A. in Architecture from the University of California Berkeley and a M.S. in Sustainable Energy System Management from Hanze University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. She completed her Master thesis on battery storage and electric vehicles with Mercedes-Benz Energy.

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/our-work/clinton-climate-initiative

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