Energy Week 2026
Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition
Take a peek at how Energy Week 2025 unfolded:
During the 2025 Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition, graduate students across the globe worked on developing business models for a bitcoin mining firm enabling energy access in rural Africa.
🌍 7 countries represented
🏛️ 44 universities participating
👥 57 teams registered
🙌 245 participants in total
The Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition is sponsored by the Duke Fuqua MBA Energy Club and the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project at Duke University. The competition is part of Energy Week at Duke which brings industry experts, community organizers, and government officials, and students to discuss the energy-climate nexus and explore the ways in which energy both contributes to climate change and can be a major solution.
Duke Graduate Students Win Annual Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition
Two teams of graduate students from Duke and a team from the University of Cape Town were collectively awarded $15,000 in the finals of the 2025 Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition held as part of Energy Week at Duke. Over the fall, the competition challenged 57 teams to develop business solutions to a real-world energy challenge from Kenya-based company Gridless.
The contest connects students, academia, and industry in pursuit of unconventional business-based solutions that expose unrecognized opportunities with positive social and environmental impact. Student teams will tackle a real-world energy business challenge, with a total of $15,000 in prizes awarded to the winning student teams.
In addition to the chance to win almost $15,000 in prize money, participants will gain practical experience developing business models for future growth plans while tackling the challenge of stranded power in mini-grids in developing countries.
- Logistical questions can be directed to casecompetition@duke.edu.
In partnership with
The Energy in Emerging Markets Case Competition is part of:
Questions?
casecompetition@duke.edu