Nov 2024
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Cultivating Opportunities in Africa: Powering agricultural productivity through Renewable Energy IntegrationAs 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*. |
Oct 2024
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Walk-in Cold Rooms, A Practitioner’s Technical GuideThe 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. |
May 2024
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Improving clean cooking access in Freetown (Sierra Leone)’s informal settlements: VideoThis 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 |
May 2024
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AFUR Mainstreaming Mini-grid Tariff Settlement Tools and Methodologies Baseline GAP Analysis Final ReportAFUR Mainstreaming Mini-grid Tariff Settlement Tools and Methodologies Baseline GAP Analysis Final Report |
Apr 2024
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Freetown City Energy ProfileThis 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 |
Apr 2024
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Kofa’s journey to transforming Africa’s energy landscapeSummary 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 |
Apr 2024
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Are mini-grid communities being left out of energy access maps? A study of nighttime light detection in Sierra LeoneAn 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? |
Mar 2024
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TEA forum highlights critical need for partnerships in scaling clean energyShell Foundation write up on the TEA Forum, with focus on partnerships, innovative finance mechanisms and gender intentionality, referencing new initiatives or learning in each area |
Mar 2024
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Insights from a Pilot Programme for Healthcare Electrification in sub-Saharan Africa – Shell FoundationInsights from a pilot programme that tests innovative solutions for deploying solar photovoltaic systems to power health facilities in a sustainable and scalable way. |
Mar 2024
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60 Decibels Off-Grid Energy Benchmarks60 Decibels has collected impact data since 2015 for Off-Grid Energy Companies. These benchmarks include data from over 662,000+ interviews in 107 countries, with customers of 1,400+ companies through 3,229 Lean Data projects across multiple sectors: energy, agriculture, financial inclusion, |
Mar 2024
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State of the Global Mini Grids Market Report 2020The State of the Global Mini Grids Report 2020 is the definitive source of information for mini-grids stakeholders.The report raises awareness about mobilizing investments in the mini-grid sector and serves as a benchmark to measure progress in the sector for |
Mar 2024
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Mini Grid Innovation Insight: Electric grain milling – a US$2.5B opportunity across AfricaTransitioning from diesel to electric grain mills in SSA could generate $2.5B in value by 2030 while saving 5M+ tons of carbon emissions. However inconsistent electricity supply, mill operator inertia, and ancillary costs hinder uptake. In CrossBoundary Innovation Lab’s latest |
Mar 2024
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Driving change: Local partners appointed to implement clean cooking interventions in urban informal settlements in Kampala, UgandaIn response to the pressing need for clean cooking interventions in urban informal settlements in Kampala, Uganda, ICLEI Africa and Energy 4 Impact – Mercy Corps have appointed a consortium led by Wana Solutions Uganda Limited and including Green Bio |
Mar 2024
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Enhancing livelihoods for women using productive energy use appliancesReport offering a landscape analysis and market sizing report that explores which productive use energy appliances represent the highest potential to improve livelihoods. The report also looks at how results-based financing allows for the alignment of gender outcome targets with |
Feb 2024
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Powering Prosperity: The socio-economic benefits of the productive use of renewable energy (PURE) in AfricaThe productive use of renewable energy (PURE) market opportunity in rural sub-Saharan Africa is estimated to be worth $864 billion up to 2030. The PREO Impact Report 2022/23 explores the latest impact insights from the PREO programme, demonstrating the socio-economic |
Feb 2024
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Health Facility Electrification Capital LandscapeThe report, supported by Power Africa and the UK Aid-supported Transforming Energy Access initiative (UK TEA), maps the landscape of capital for health facility electrification in important emerging markets, and includes a systematic analysis of the demand, current supply and |
Feb 2024
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State of the Market Report for Healthcare Facility ElectrificationSEforALL’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. |
Jan 2024
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CrowdPower State of the Market reportCrowdfunding 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. |
Nov 2023
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‘Why Off-Grid Energy Matters-2023’ reportWhy Off-Grid Energy Matters 2024 is the world’s most comprehensive social impact assessment of off-grid energy to date, featuring insights from 79,000 energy customers in over 30 different countries. |
Nov 2023
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Part 1: Understanding the Relationship Between Energy Access and Extreme PovertyThis report provides an overall picture of the number of people in extreme poverty living in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indo-Pacific who don’t have access to energy. We examine the key drivers of poverty and lack of energy access and |