This training material, published by the SBC Energy Institute (SBC-EI), summarizes the innovations that are collectively known as smart-grid technologies.
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Source: SBC Energy Institute (SBC-EI)
Date: July 2015
In this webinar, the United Nations Foundation provides basic media training encompassing Google Hangouts, Twitter chats and other resources applicable to energy practitioners.
Source: Clean Energy Solutions Center, United Nations Foundation’s Energy Access Practitioner Network, Facebook
Date: October 2015
This report describes the range of choices available in renewable energy auctions and makes recommendations to facilitate optimal decision-making. The authors focus on challenges that need to be addressed and the alternatives that may be considered for each auction design element.
Source: International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Date: January 2015
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.
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 recorded webinar addresses work underway in Peru to support energy access using off-grid renewable energy and explores residual energy access issues in Peru in the run up to the 20th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties.
Source: United Nations Foundation’s Energy Access Practitioner Network, Clean Energy Solutions Center
El seminario proporcionará información sobre cómo los países de América Latina y el Caribe pueden recibir asistencia técnica del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo para la realización de sus planes para el acceso universal a la energía.
Source: Clean Energy Solutions Center, Sustainable Energy for All Americas (SE4ALL Americas), United Nations Foundation’s Energy Access Practitioner Network
Date: February 2015
The speakers in this webinar showcased financing models and capacity building efforts tailored to clean energy in island settings.
Source: Clean Energy Solutions Center, United Nations Foundation’s Energy Access Practitioner Network, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)
Date: March 2015
This journal article describes how urban population growth, improved living standards and dwindling water supplies in the United States are causing the demand for treated municipal water to exceed the supply.
Source: HortScience Journal
Date: December 2008
This webinar is part of the broader work that the UN Foundation is undertaking on energy access and as part of the Clean Energy Mini-grids High Impact Opportunity (HIO) area within the UN and the World Bank’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative.
Source: United Nations Foundation’s Energy Access Practitioner Network, Clean Energy Solutions Center