Knowledge

The GEDSI Toolkit provides resources, including guides, templates and other training materials, to promote socio-economic development, growth, poverty reduction, and equal access to energy. Using this toolkit is highly recommended to improve understanding of GEDSI and its importance for sustainable development.

Disability-inclusive energy access is a core part of realising aninclusive energy transition that leave no one behind. Explore resources from the TEA Disability Support Service – including a White Paper on disability-inclusive energy solutions and Briefing Note on integrating disability in energy transition strategies – for energy access innovators, practitioners, and policymakers to identify potential entry points for their contribution to a disability-inclusive energy transition. 

This Ayrton Fund report analyses job creation data within the Fund’s clean energy innovation portfolio to provide recommendations for better measuring and reporting on the transition to a low-carbon economy.

SEforALL’s recent report offers an in-depth look into current healthcare electrification trends, key challenges facing the healthcare electrification sector, financing and investment needs in the sector and a sectoral outlook and recommendations to unlock progress on powering healthcare.

Crowdfunding continues to play a key role in supporting fundraising efforts by energy access companies. In this report CrowdPower delves into macroeconomic influences,  and future trends dominating the evolving debt crowdfunding market.

This innovation insight published by CrossBoundary, delves into capex per connection cost outcome when proactively installing a distribution network through Grid Densification in a mini-grid community.

These reports published by CLASP (Efficiency for Access) evaluate the cold chain technology markets in Kenya and Nigeria. Both reports identify current trends, barriers, and opportunities for market transformation, as well as strategies to accelerate the adoption of cold chain technologies for fresh food value chains at scale.

This report published by Crowd Power, part of the TEA platform, is the fourth state-of-the-market report examining the challenges faced by crowdfunding platforms in the energy access sector.

This report published by CrossBoundary Energy – Appliance financing 3.0 – focuses on income generating equipment – electric pressure cookers, freezers/fridges and grain mills.

This report published by Shell Foundation, based on research conducted by Value for Women (V4W), demonstrates how gender equality in the workplace can deliver positive social and economic impacts on SMEs highlighting improvements in employee satisfaction, productivity and retention creating more profitable and sustainable business models.

This report offers critical insights on the key learnings from the PEII initiative and analyzes the progress made against the problems that PEII was intended to solve.

Published by the African Forum for Utility Regulators AFUR.

The latest report from Energy 4 Impact’s research programme Crowd Power, part of the TEA platform, explores how to attract investors to energy access crowdfunding.

This report provides practical guidance to founders and entrepreneurs interested in launching an equity crowdfunding campaign.

This report examines the role that alternative finance can offer in growing the energy access sector, with a particular focus on equity crowdfunding.

This Energy Catalyst report introduces and discusses the major enabling digital technologies that are impacting the energy access sector, providing a selection of the most innovative applications of these technologies and the key digital trends in the sector.

• Read the full report
• Read the abridged insight

A new flagship report from Crowd Power, part of the TEA platform, highlights how the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a 25% drop in energy access-related crowdfunding volumes.

The report, commissioned by the Faraday Institution and carried out by DNV and TFE Africa, explores the potential of battery energy storage solutions BESS to be viable and competitive in sub-Saharan Africa, as a way of offering alternative solutions for resilience and grid independence. If realised, this would enable the integration of more utility-scale renewables and bringing electricity and opportunity to the least developed corners of the continent. The accompanying techno-economic model into BESS, explores their potential to displace fossil-fuel powered generators and increase the uptake of cheaper, cleaner and more reliable energy.

This is an excel based technical assessment tool that models the mass energy balance of seven different demand sectors to provide an assessment of feedstock requirements (type, quantity, energy output) to meet the potential energy requirements using the appropriate technology type (either combustion or AD).

• Mass energy Balance tool (xlsm)
• Methodology document (pdf)

This report provides a qualitative view of the challenges, opportunities and prospects for commercial biomass gasification in Africa based on lessons and experiences from projects in Africa and other developing and developed countries.