This report examines the complex process of transforming power systems. It offers evidence for power system transformation by providing a collection of empirical examples of the types of innovations that are emerging worldwide.
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This report considers remote prosumers as roof-top solar PV customers in remote areas and islands. It describes how they are deploying renewable energy, some with ambitious plans to meet 100% of their electricity or even final energy needs with renewables.
Source: International Energy Agency Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (IEA-RETD)
Date: June 2015
This report describes how cities in the United States are increasingly taking action to improve the sustainability of their jurisdictions and how clean energy and energy efficiency must be central components of these efforts.
Source: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Date: July 2015
This recorded webinar focuses on the findings of REN21's flagship report, the Renewables 2015 Global Status Report as they relate to distributed renewable energy. The webinar begins with an overview of the report and then considers the status of distributed energy in sub-Saharan Africa.
Source: Clean Energy Solutions Center, Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21)
Date: September 2015
This fact sheet outlines how electricity supply options (renewable vs. traditional), specifically utility-scale renewable energy systems, can be appropriately compared.
Source: World Resources Institute
Date: February 2015
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.
Source: United Nations Enviroment Programme
Date: December 2014
Asia and the Pacific have achieved rapid economic expansion in the recent years, and the region has become a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Source: Asian Development Bank
This publication provides an overview of the activities and recent accomplishments of technology collaboration programmes (TCPs). The 39 TCPs in operation involve about 6,000 experts from government, industry and research organizations in 51 countries.
Source: International Energy Agency: Energy Technology Network
Date: January 2016
This report explores potential for urban communities to scale-up renewables by 2030, based on estimated energy use in 3,649 cities around the world. The authors find that every city has massive potential to cost-effectively boost renewable energy use at the local level.
Source: International Renewable Energy Agency
This report describes Indonesia’s electrification environment and identifies barriers to achieving universal electricity access.
Source: Asian Development Bank
Date: March 2016