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2016´s EEMCC was the largest yet with more than 30 teams competing from across the world...

The 2016 EEMCC competition, held on November 1st at the Fuqua School of Business in the campus of Duke University, was very emotional. It was easy to dream about sustainable energy development in Cuba seeing this group of bright, beautiful young people, from so many corners of the world, with the professionalism, commitment, creativity and passion that characterizes the commitment of the new generations with the future.

 

The competition was tough, however, due to the level of the jury and of the proposals. There were initiatives of submarine turbines, taking advantage of the Gulf current in the strait between Cuba and Florida; that proposed submarine cables to compensate for Cuba's electricity grid, as well as supplying energy back to Florida at dusk and receiving it at dawn making use of geographic advantages between the north-south oriented peninsula and east-west orientation of the Island. There were those who spoke about floating natural gas combined cycle units, the use of the sugar industry and the distributed generation system, sun, wind and agricultural waste streams.

 

All the groups presented viable strategies with their economic feasibility studies, including proposals for measures that could be taken to motivate investors and of different investment instruments. Strategies that could be used by Cuba and businessmen from all over the world, to bring the necessary resources to the country. In general, the competition indicated that Cuba could aim to increase its renewables' by more than 40% under current conditions and, at the same time, reduce the cost of producing its energy up to 0.14 USD/kWh, all this would reduce the dependencies on external energy resources.

 

The spirit of the competition was magnetic, these young people were marveled at the possibility of contributing their ingenuity, with the best ideas of the US approaching the best of Cuba; of being protagonists in a moment of history. In the end, the John Hopkins University team was the winner, followed by Washington University from St. Louis, and finally Carnegie Mellon University.


Judges

Jim E. Rogers Author of Lighting the World: Transforming Our Energy Future by Bringing Electricity to Everyone Director, Energy Access Project, Duke University Former CEO and Chairman of the Board, Duke Energy
Tim Profeta Director, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Sudha Gollapudi Associate Director, Structured Finance & Insurance, OPIC Advisory Board Member, Clean Energy Leadership Institute
Rotimi Thomas Manager Finance & Strategy – Microgrids USA, Siemens
Ramesh Akella Managing Director at Centrosolar
Scarlett Harrod Global Program Development Manager - Next Level Oil, Gas, and Chemical, ABB
Andy Bindea CEO of Sigora International & Sigora Haiti
Michael Panfil Director of Federal Energy Policy and Senior Attorney at EDF
Daniel Jaouiche Senior Manager with Accenture Strategy
Joseph "Buzz" Miller President and CEO, Southern Power
Carlos Fernandez-Aballi Altamirano, PhD Chief Strategy Officer, Cuba Strategies Inc.

Jim E. Rogers, Tim Profeta, Sudha Gollapudi, Rotimi Thomas, Ramesh Akella, Scarlett Harrod, Andy Bindea, Michael Panfil, Daniel Jaouiche, Joseph "Buzz" Miller, Carlos Fernandez-Aballi Altamirano, PhD (further reading)


1st Prize: John Hopkins University


2nd prize: Washington University in St. Louis


3rd Prize: Carnegie Mellon University


The 12 finalist teams and their proposals

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Carnegie Mellon University
Gabriel Vizcaino, Rushil Zutshi, Ayush Garg, Shashank Sripad, David Chancellor
Carnegie Mellon.pdf
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Colorado School of Mines
Bansidhar Bandi, James Crompton, Martin Kohn, Ashwin Ravichandran, David Rodziewicz
ColoradoSchoolofMines.pdf
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Columbia University
Syed Salman Tariq, Sergio Verdugo, Alejandra Plazas Guzman, Yuan Tian, Yaroslavna Bernies
Columbia.pdf
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Cornell Univeristy
Chip Silverman, Luis Arteaga, Audi Prabowo, Jason Thomas, Miles Archer
Cornell.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 620.4 KB
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Duke University
Andrew Janata, Matthew Tarduogno, Matthew Zedler, Maurice Hickman, Mike Lamach
Duke.pdf
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jan-Justus Schmidt, Matteo Toso, Mehak Chawla, Yulia Adamskaya, Giuseppe Miceli
HKUST.pdf
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John Hopkins
Zach Harris, Matt Hess, Danielle Schwab, Taylor Sloane, Brandon Yeh
JohnsHopkins.pdf
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University of Maryland
Greg Kilkus, Elliot Dickerson, Brittani Hradsky, Rahul Rathore, Kelsey Jackson
UniversityofMaryland.pdf
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Univeristy of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Brandon Colman, Gregory Daugherty, Christina Perkins, Carson Pfeifer, Nathaniel Smith
UNC_ChapelHill.pdf
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University of Pittsburgh
Manikandan VR, Naveen Kumar, Nishant Ranjan, Preeti Nafri
UniversityofPittsburgh.pdf
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Washington University in St. Louis
Siqi Feng, Cheyenne Martins, Satya Narayanan, Sid Sharma, Grace Velker
WashingtonUniversityStLouis.pdf
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Yale University
Isaac Bernstein, Stella Cao, Adam Hetherington, Aashna Mehra, Xiaoxiao Wang
Yale.pdf
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Duke University EEMCC team

Chairs

Paul Lee is a second-year student at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Chris Dougher is a second-year MEM/MBA dual degree candidate with a concentration in Energy and Environment at Duke University.
Andrew Seelaus is a third-year MEM/MBA dual degree candidate with a concentration in Energy and Environment at Duke University.

Case Writting

Rachel Breaux  is a Cross Continent MBA student at the Fuqua School of Business.
Judy Merzbach is a first year MBA student at the Fuqua School of Business.

Logistics

Araz Javadov is originally from Azerbaijan and worked in Oil & Gas prior to Fuqua
Diana Mobley is a first year student at the Fuqua School of Business
Aditya Singh is a first year MBA student at the Fuqua School of Business
Angela Tenney is a first-year student at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
Jenna Ziesenhene is a first-year MBA candidate with concentrations in Strategy and Energy/Environment at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business

Paul Lee, Chris Dougher, Andrew Seelaus, Rachel Breaux, Judy Merzbach, Araz Javadov, Diana Mobley, Aditya Singh, Angela Tenney, Jenna Ziesenhene... Thank you!


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