The handbook compiles information from multiple sources on the major barriers confronting the deployment of renewable energy and distributed generation, cogeneration and combined heat and power (alternative energy) projects into one document.
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Source: Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, United States Energy Association
Date: February 2009
This report describes issues that should be considered during the financing stage of hydropower projects and offers suggestions and alternatives to aid in securing financing for small-scale hydropower projects.
Source: International Energy Agency
Date: March 2000
This database provides publications, case studies, tools, general discussions, and other resources focusing on a wide variety of technologies. Users may search technologies by name, sector, and the service that featured technologies provide.
Source: United Nations, Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Energy Research Center of the Netherlands, Joint Implementation Network, University of Edinburgh, Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Partnership
This report provides information about the current use of electricity in rural areas and analyzes opportunities and challenges to rural electrification in developing countries as well as providing policy recommendations.
Source: Alliance for Rural Electrification
This report examines Kenya's potential to benefit from the Program on Scaling-Up Renewable Energy in Low Income Countries (SREP), operating under the framework of the Climate Investment Funds.
Source: Climate Investment Funds
Date: February 2011
This website provides access to a collection of webcasts and podcasts presented by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Local Climate and Energy Program.
Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency
This special edition of the Sustainable Energy Regulation Network (SERN) Policy and Regulatory Review outlines the legislation, policies, and roles of institutions related to renewable energy and energy efficiency in India, at both the central government and state levels.
Source: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)
Date: October 2009
The authors of this report recommend various measures to support large-scale deployment of renewables in Mauritania, including developing a national policy on renewable energy; updating the electricity code and associated implementing decrees; creating the institutional and regulatory framework t
Source: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Date: September 2015
This report—which is based on a country-by-country assessment of supply, demand, renewable energy potential and technology prospects—recommends 14 actions to accelerate the Africa’s renewable energy uptake in Africa.
Source: International Renewable Energy Agency
Date: January 2015
This report focuses on the role that national policy makers will play in this transformation of power grids towards heavy reliance on renewable energy sources.
Source: International Renewable Energy Agency
Date: January 2015