This report explains how the need for lighting products in places like Africa remains critical, as a large portion of households still have no access to electrical services.
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Source: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Date: January 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 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.
Source: The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
This report presents lessons for implementing local renewables policies in cities large and small, local government activities to drive renewable energy, as well as how national governments can create enabling frameworks for cities. Local governments are ideal drivers of change.
Source: Renewable Energy Policy Network for 21st Century
Date: May 2011
The Renewable Energy Toolkit (REToolkit) provides a set of tools to assist in improving the design and implementation of on-grid, mini-grid, and off-grid renewable energy projects.
Source: The World Bank
The Global Environment Facility has supported technologies including solar thermal heating, solar thermal power, off-grid and on-grid solar photovoltaic, wind power, small hydro power, geothermal power, and biomass in projects globally.
Source: Global Environment Facility
Date: November 2009
This report examines those policies, regulations, and institutional capacities in the electricity sector that will direct both public and private investment towards sustainable energy options.
Source: International Institute for Sustainable Development, World Resources Institute
Date: November 2009
This website provides access to the International Energy Agency’s annual Energy Efficient Market Report.
Source: International Energy Agency (IEA)
Date: October 2015
This study identifies and describes Mexico's possible development path to increase the use of renewables across its entire energy system by 2030. The authors estimates there could be a threefold increase in total renewable energy use by 2030 in Mexico.
Source: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Date: May 2015
This report describes renewable energy best practices from projects around the world.
Source: Alliance for Rural Electrification
Date: January 2013