This report describes how energy has become the central theme in discussions on alleviating poverty, promoting economic development and improving the quality of life of people.
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Source: Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All)
Date: July 2015
The public-private roundtable summarized on this web page describes how the transition to a global clean energy economy depends on the world's cities, which accounting for roughly 75 per cent of global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Source: Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM)
Date: May 2015
This brochure provides an update on Climate Investment Funds (CIF) activities in 2015 in African nations.
Source: African Development Bank Group
Date: June 2015
The Biomass Energy Strategy (BEST) initiative aims to build awareness of biomass as Africa's main source of primary energy and to highlight its relevance to poverty alleviation efforts, especially among decision-makers at policy level.
Source: EU Energy Initiative: Partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI PDF), Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Date: March 2011
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
Pico-photovoltaic (PV) kits have become a lower-cost alternative to investment intensive grid electrification. Using a randomized controlled trial, the authors examine uptake and impacts of a simple pico-PV kit that barely exceeds the benchmark of what the UN considers modern energy.
Source: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor
Date: October 2014
This book examines the potential of African countries to produce biofuels for export or domestic consumption and looks at the policy framework needed.
Source: World Bank Group
Date: December 2011
This presentation review energy access progress in Tanzania and strategies from the Rural Energy Agency to expand access, including facilitating renewable energy projects and energy efficiency.
Source: Rural Energy Agency, Tanzania
Date: January 2016