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.
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This report presents the main findings of a High-level Advisory Group brought together by the European Commission in regard to Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs).
Source: European Commission
Date: July 2009
This report provides an in depth look at the European Electricity Grid Initiative (EEGI), which is part of the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (Set -Plan).
Source: European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity, European Distribution System Operators for Smart Grids
Date: May 2010
This document includes four technical research reports and one policy research report: Study on Wind Power Development; Study on Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Development; Study on Solar Thermal Application and Development; Study on Small Hydro Power Development; Study on the Incentive Policies and Ex
Source: Chinese Energy Research Institute, National Development and Reform Commission, The World Bank
Date: June 2005
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 report details the strategies needed to provide universal electricity access by the end of 2030. Small, stand-alone renewable energy technologies can often meet electricity needs of rural communities less expensively than centralised grid solutions can.
Source: United Nations
Date: September 2010
This report is a collection of case studies that highlight replicable best practices in the use of renewable energy for rural electrification. Examples cover a wide range of technologies, locations, financial support mechanisms, and consumer-tariff schemes.
Source: Alliance for Rural Electrification
Date: January 2011
This report was produced by the World Bank on behalf of the Chinese government.
Source: The World Bank
Date: July 2003
This report reviews experiences with renewable portfolio standards, feed-in tariffs, and tendering policies in the United States and European Union and analyzes their advantages and disadvantages. The report concludes with potential application of these policy options in China.
Source: Center for Resource Solutions
Date: June 2002
This investment plan outlines four areas of alternative energy development to achieve Thailand's 20 per cent alternative energy target by 2022: 1) increasing the share of power generation from renewable sources by small power producers; (2) increasing the share of thermal power from renewable so
Source: Government of Thailand, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Asian Development Bank, International Finance Corporation
Date: December 2009