This study explores how subsidies can impede the entry of efficient lighting technologies into off-grid markets. The issue of fuel subsidies is essential to understanding the dynamics of the off-grid lighting market, according to the authors.
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Source: United Nations Enviroment Programme
Date: December 2014
This webinar highlighted the Building Energy Access Markets framework, a publication developed by Practical Action Consulting that offers policymakers and practitioners a method for designing and delivering interventions that can achieve scale and sustainability and which features applicable case
Source: Clean Energy Solutions Center, United Nations Foundation’s Energy Access Practitioner Network, Practical Action, EU Energy Initiative Partnership Dialogue Facility (EUEI PDF)
Date: July 2015
This website provides trainings—at cost—for renewable project managers and business leaders that focus on factors that are fundamental to sustainable growth for the renewable energy sector, including investment, risk and profitability.
Source: Green Power Academy
This online data base collects information on international climate mitigation initiatives in operation that (1) have potential to contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, (2) are international in scope or have the potential for significant impact at global scale, and (3) are dialogues,
Source: Climate Initiatives Platform
Date: January 2016
This special issue of the Environment & Urbanization journal was edited by the Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) network.
Source: Environment & Urbanization Journal, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Date: October 2016
This report is an interim output from an activity funded and supported by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). Final output from the project will be a validated Tanzania Small Hydro Atlas that will be published once the project is completed.
Source: World Bank
Date: January 2017
This note summarizes a report that identifies key policy barriers to the adoption of modern off-grid lighting products and services in Ethiopia, and it offers recommendations for their mitigation.
Source: World Bank
Date: January 2012
This report informs policymakers and other stakeholders in the energy sector about the technology developments in renewable mini-grids. It also discusses how these technology developments could enable faster commercialization and large-scale deployment of renewable mini-grids.
Source: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Date: October 2016
This document provides information to help tourism professionals understand and evaluate the options for meeting off-grid energy needs of rural tourism facilities.
Source: United States Agency for International Development
Date: January 2009
The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) is a global knowledge and technical assistance program administered by The World Bank.
Source: The World Bank