The Locally led action and equitable partnerships for clean energy access webinar discussed locally-led projects and equitable partnership approaches supported through the Ayrton Fund which are driving energy access and innovation in emerging economies. Our panel of experts provided insight, examples and recommendations to support locally-led action and equitable partnerships across the sector.

The webinar also launched the latest Ayrton Fund report.

The Efficiency for Access Design Challenge Grand Final for the 2022-2023 Challenge year was held on 15 June 2023. It included a showreel of what the Challenge is all about, a keynote speech by Abubakar Shuaibu, a conversation between an industry partner and student participants on what the mentoring experience is like, and the amazing award ceremony.

This guide focuses on understanding opportunities and potential entry points for Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) for clean energy businesses to consider when making strategic and operational decisions. Energy businesses can use this guide as a reference or starting point when determining how best to apply a GESI lens to their operations

Insights and learnings from S4S’s work in the renewable energy space to support women entrepreneurs convert farm losses to food ingredients via solar dryers, currently processing 25,000 tonnes of food annually and realising a GHG emission saving of around 68,750 tonnes.

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.

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 an inclusive 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.

Article on the inclusion of Pacific Island Nations in the TEA-Learning Partnership.

As the world races toward 2050, the challenge of feeding a booming population looms large, especially in Africa, where the population is projected to soar by 63% and account for a quarter of the global population*.

The first TEA@SUNRISE newsletter welcomes over 100 global network members, sharing project updates, collaboration opportunities, and upcoming events like the January symposium in South Africa. It highlights initiatives for inclusivity and the development of shared resources to foster communication and engagement within the network.

The Walk-In Cold Rooms: A Practitioner’s Technical Guide consolidates the current state of the art and outlines 12 steps to follow when specifying, delivering and operating a walk-in cold room, covering both the technical and business perspectives.

This publication on e-commerce is the second of six in the innovation spotlight series by the Global Distributors Collective (GDC), which focuses on innovation trends to watch out for in the last mile distribution (LMD) sector.

This blog discusses TEA@SUNRISE’s leadership role in the UK Government’s Ayrton Challenge on Next Generation Solar, which aims to advance clean energy technologies for developing countries. It highlights the challenge’s goals of promoting locally manufacturable solar solutions and sustainable business models, addressing barriers to solar adoption, and fostering collaboration among experts to ensure equitable access to solar energy.

This video provides an overview of the experience of early adopters of the clean cooking technologies being deployed in Susan’s Bay by Afrigas. The aim of the video is to raise awareness on the beneffits of clean cooking within informal settments in Freetown. Hence the video has been developed in Krio with English subtitles

AFUR Mainstreaming Mini-grid Tariff Settlement Tools and Methodologies Baseline GAP Analysis Final Report

This lessons learned report from the Mini-grid Tariff Settlement Tool for African Regulators project supports a conducive business climate includes providing a costreflective tariff to the investors/developers. Cost-cover-ing tariffs are one way of ensuring economic viability for private sector mini-grids. Providing a cost reflective tariff is within the remit of regulators and governments policymakers. In most countries all off-grid/mini-grid developers are required by law to apply for an energy generation, distribution and retailing permit/license and are required to obtain an energy retail tariff approval fromthe regulators.

It discusses the emerging field of next-generation photovoltaics (PV), which includes innovative materials like perovskites and organic PV aimed at improving efficiency, reducing costs, and addressing environmental concerns.

VeraSol has proposed revisions to the IEC 62253:2011, an international standard for Photovoltaic Pumping Systems- Design Qualification and Performance Measurements. The revisions aim to enhance the standard by creating a series of sub-parts. These sub-parts will organize the test methods and standards based on pump category and settings for laboratory and field testing. Stakeholders are invited to provide feedback on these proposed revisions by 14th May 2024.

This city energy profile is developed as part of the Enabling African Cities for Transformative Energy Access (ENACT) project being implemented in Freetown, Sierra Leone and Kampala, Uganda, by ICLEI Africa and Energy 4 Impact – Mercy Corps. It aims to provide an overview of the energy landscape in Sierra Leone, especially Freetown, obtained through reviewing policies and energy grant frameworks and identifying public sector levers to enable energy access, including opportunities for improved policies.

Summary of two articles, “Powering Progress: Kofa’s Journey to Transform Africa’s Energy Landscape” and “Quiet Revolution: How KofaGo is Transforming Business at Accra DVLA Park — Case Study”, that Kofa has published in Medium on their multi-use battery technology

An assessment on whether mini-grid communities might be missed by electricity mapping techniques. Can we tell when a mini-grid was installed with satellite imagery alone?