Resources

The Lab expects that offering customers income-generating machines on credit will increase electricity consumption

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

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

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 is an Excel- based economic assessment tool that models the Life Cycle Costs of bioenergy projects to help developers determine the economic viability of investing in bioenergy.

• Download Life Cycle Costing Excel tool (xlsm)
• Download guidance document (pdf)

This database provides a curated list of prominent technology providers, manufacturers and project developers that have undertaken projects in BSEAA2 target countries.

The database provides a detailed list of bioenergy projects identified across the 10 target BSEAA2 countries containing various technical information including feedstock, technology type, project location, size, owner, technology provider, operating status, funding sources and project description.

• Database of bioenergy projects (xlsm)

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.

This report, the first in the series, focuses on the commercial opportunities and constraints for combustion based heat generation in the cement manufacturing industry in Nigeria

This report, the second in the series, focuses on the commercial opportunities and constraints for combustion based heat generation in the tea processing industry in Kenya

This report, the third in the series, focuses on the commercial opportunities and constraints for combustion based electricity and heat (CHP) generation in the wood processing industry in Tanzania

This report, the fourth in the series, focuses on the commercial opportunities and constraints for Anaerobic Digestion (AD) based heat and electricity generation in the palm oil industry in Ghana

This report, the fifth in the series, focuses on the commercial opportunities and constraints for Anaerobic Digestion (AD) based heat and electricity generation in the horticulture industry in Kenya

This report, the sixth in the series, focuses on the commercial opportunities and constraints for Anaerobic Digestion (AD) based heat and electricity generation in the dairy industry in South Africa

This report, the seventh in the series, focuses on the commercial opportunities and constraints for AD based electricity generation in the sisal processing industry in Kenya

This policy brief provides an overview of the relevant policy, regulatory and environmental framework in the cement sector in Nigeria that impacts bioenergy use, and highlights measures required to catalyse further adoption of commercial-scale bioenergy within this sector

This policy brief provides an overview of the relevant policy, regulatory and environmental framework in the tea and forestry sector that impacts bioenergy use, and highlights measures required to catalyse further adoption of commercial-scale bioenergy within this sector

This policy brief provides an overview of the relevant policy and regulatory framework in the wood processing and electricity sector in Tanzania that impacts bioenergy use, and highlights measures required to catalyse further adoption of commercial-scale bioenergy within this sector