A new report analyzes finance flows for electricity and clean cooking access in 20 countries across Africa and Asia, demonstrates the significant access gaps, and shows how finance strategies could be scaled and refined to reach more people, more affordably, with sustainable energy.
UK-based nonprofit giant Practical Action was one of this year’s Zayed Future Energy Prize winners. I got to interview Chief Executive Paul Smith Lomas and Global Energy Representative Aaron Leopold right after they won the prize. Below is my video interview with the two, as well as some written notes underneath. Enjoy!
Bill Gates, delivering the 14th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on the eve of Mandela Day, has again dismissed the potential global role of solar, and in particular the value it could have in solving energy crises in Africa. “In the long run, what Africa needs is what the whole world … [continued]
The World Resources Institute released a couple of positive international findings today for renewable energy in its Assessing the Post-2020 Clean Energy Landscape report. Breaking down the 127 INDCs submitted to the United Nations by late October, the think tank discovered: 80% reference clean energy; 53% mention clean energy targets; … [continued]
Originally published on RMI Outlet. By Laurie Guevara-Stone Access to electricity is crucial for sustainable economic development. Yet 1.3 billion people around the world live without basic access to electricity. Many of these people rely on unhealthy polluting kerosene lamps for nighttime lighting. Those with access to electricity in the … [continued]
Adnan Z. Amin, Director-General of the International Renewable Energy Agency* and initiator of a series of world conferences on off-grid and minigrid electrification, sees our world on the cusp of unprecedented energy transformation. Not only will the use of renewables for reliable, clean electricity contribute to universal access to power, … [continued]
The nearest Metro Manila skyline to IOREC 2014. There are many—Manila’s actually 18 cities. Image Credit: CleanTechnica/Sandy Dechert The two-day International Off-Grid Renewable Energy Conference* last week in Manila provided delegates insights into the current status of energy access in the region. At IOREC 2014, participants also discussed key barriers to deploying … [continued]
Manila, capital city of the Philippines. There are 7,107 islands in the archipelago, of which less than a third are inhabited. It’s tomorrow already for a Chicago resident here in Manila, the most densely populated city in the world and government and commercial capital of the far-flung Philippines, long known … [continued]
As the UN Rio+20 conference on sustainable development opened, the US international development bank announced it is investing in renewable energy and energy infrastructure funds focused on financing projects across Latin America, Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. […]
Gathering in London for the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), energy ministers and secretaries from 23 governments around the world joined UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon’s Sustainable Energy for All program (SE4All) in committing to promote improved energy efficiency, renewable energy technologies and increased energy access around the world.
