Resources

60 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, health, education, and more. By asking the same questions across multiple projects, they have been able to develop benchmarks.

The 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 decision-makers.

Transitioning 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 Innovation Insight, we discuss the potential for financial incentives and awareness campaigns to accelerate the switch to clean electric milling.

In 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 Energy Ltd. to implement these initiatives. A baseline study conducted by ENACT revealed that 92% of residents and microenterprises in Kisenyi, an informal settlement in Kampala, rely on charcoal for cooking, highlighting the urgency for change. The consortium aims to address barriers such as lack of awareness, affordability concerns, and safety issues associated with cleaner cooking alternatives.

Report 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 priorities of impact-driven stakeholders and offers a means of tracking investments and progress.

The Strategic Outlook highlights the hurdles displaced people face within the traditional humanitarian system, such as power inequalities, structural barriers, limited access to resources and work opportunities, as well as restricted agency in strategic spaces where critical decisions about their lives are made. Following this, the document presents a few recommendations to help the humanitarian energy sector embrace a paradigm change that enhances inclusivity and ensures the humanitarian system seeks to embrace a just and inclusive approach.

The 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 benefits of investing in revenue and income-generating products and services in Africa.

The 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 capital provided so far to power health facilities.

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.

The guide focuses on the GESI approaches within investments made primarily by angel, impact, gender lens, and venture capital investors, but also showcases information on investors that provide public capital, e.g. financing provided by national governments and international organisations through investment funds and development finance institutions in the clean energy and energy access

Article showcasing Global Refugee Forum 2023 activities.

Website article disseminating Global Refugee Forum 2023 and the outcomes.

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.

Website article unpacking activities, conversations and participation at COP28.

What begins as a temporary solution often transforms into a long-term living situation for displaced communities, lasting for decades. Despite an increased focus on providing basic energy services, 94% of those in refugee camps still lack access to electricity.

Article highlighting Gulu University, in partnership with the TEA-LP, introduces its ground-breaking MSc in Renewable Energy and Energy Access. This innovative two-year journey blends coursework and research, with a primary focus on off-grid clean energy technologies, aiming to create a skilled workforce of renewable energy professionals who can drive energy access in Uganda’s off-grid sector.

Website article ahead of the GRF with a call to action to the GRF to include energy access and refugee voices in the dialogues.

Why 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.

Pyridinium electrolytes are promising candidates for flow-battery-based energy storage1,2,3,4. However, the mechanisms underlying both their charge–discharge processes and overall cycling stability remain poorly understood. Here we probe the redox behaviour of pyridinium electrolytes under representative flow battery conditions, offering insights into air tolerance of batteries containing these electrolytes while providing a universal physico-chemical descriptor of their reversibility.

This 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 how these interact. Specifically, we looked at the similarities and differences in energy needs, the access barriers people face, and the factors that are likely to hamper people’s ability to take up market mechanisms.

This report explores how market mechanisms can be used to provide energy access to people living in extreme poverty. In it we review the available market mechanisms and their ability to provide energy access to demographic groups. We also outline an econometric model that can be used to estimate the extent to which specific mechanisms can provide energy access to people who live in different circumstances.