This presentation, given at the Asia ESCO Conference in New Delhi in 2010, examines the potential and barriers for Energy Service Companies (ESCO) in developing countries.
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Source: New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization
Date: January 2010
This directory is an online database of lenders and investors that actively provide finance to the sustainable energy sector worldwide. The directory can help renewable energy and energy efficiency project developers and entrepreneurs identify sources of potential capital easily and quickly.
Source: Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy, United Nations
This guidebook provides practical, application-specific information about energy supply options as well as ways to improve energy efficiency in horticulture operations in the areas of irrigation, harvesting and post-harvest operations, cooling and cold storage, drying, and transport.
Source: United States Agency for International Development
Date: March 2009
This report outlines the United Nations Industrial Development Organization's (UNIDO's) strategy—and activities—to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing countries.
Source: United Nations
Date: January 2009
This website highlights the activities of the United Nations Environment Programme Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics in promoting public and private sector finance of clean energy.
Source: United Nations
The training manual is a modular guide intended to help energy entrepreneurs acquire the supplementary knowledge needed to expand their energy businesses. It provides guidelines on business delivery models, business and financial management, and the sources of business finance.
Source: United States Agency for International Development, GVEP International
Date: January 2010
This report discusses the potential of small and medium enterprises to improve energy access and livelihoods in remote and rural areas in developing countries using Cambodia and Laos as examples.
Source: The World Bank
Date: February 2010
The Government of Tanzania is establishing a framework for development of small power projects (ranging from 100 kW to 10 MW in capacity) using renewable energy sources in Tanzania.
Source: Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority of Tanzania
This web-based database provides detailed project output documents from Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) projects. The database contains output documents from specific types of energy access, energy efficiency, and renewable energy programmes.
Source: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)
Date: March 2012
This guidebook provides actionable guidance for improving the energy efficiency of the tourism sector.
Source: United Nations
Date: December 2009