This report identifies the main risks and barriers limiting investment. It also supplies a toolkit for policy makers, public and private investors, and public finance institutions to scale up their investments in renewable energy.
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Source: The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
This report analyses the impact of delivery models on the creation of sustainable welfare benefits. Three case studies are selected, comprising one renewable energy mini-grid project or programme from Nepal, Peru and Kenya.
Source: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Date: June 2012
This report examines how ten countries have switched, or are planning to switch, from traditional fuels such as wood, coal, charcoal, animal waste and kerosene, to LPG as a cooking fuel.
Source: The World LPG Association (WLPGA), WLPGA
Date: September 2015
The publication provides insights into some of the complications inherent in the private household and social cost-benefit “calculus” of interventions to promote new cooking technologies and practices.
Source: Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves
Date: January 2016
This report examines the key factors influencing investors in mini-grid projects, including licensing, tariff regulation, access to finance and specific project risks related to the eventual arrival of the main grid.
Source: International Renewable Energy Access
Date: September 2016
Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) produces comprehensive inventories of climate change investment and is committed to improving understanding of climate finance flows at the global, national and local levels.
Source: Climate Policy initiative
The Sustainable Energy Marketplace is a virtual platform that gathers renewable energy actors and IRENA's expertise and work to pursue together the deployment of renewable energies in developing countries.
Source: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
This assessment was conducted to identify and understand the degree to which gender considerations have been addressed in energy policies, plans and strategies worldwide.
Source: IUCN Global Gender Office
Date: September 2017
This report identifies opportunities for bio-energy development in Caribbean and Central American nations, including the technical potential for biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel) and biopower generation.
Source: United Nations, Italian Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Security Group
Date: December 2006
This report provides insights into how countries can address lack of electricity access in slums. It includes examples of approaches taken in the Philippines, South Africa, Brazil, and India.
Source: United States Agency for International Development
Date: December 2004