Lighting Africa has released a video demonstrating how low-income households and small businesses in rural Kenya have switched from kerosene lamps to portable solar lanterns.
While the interest of policy makers in the nexus between electrification, productive electricity usage and development impacts has been increasing steadily over the last decade, there still remains a lack of robust evidence on the…
Rapid expansion of energy access requires both accurate assessment and tracking of progress in energy supply and use. Up until now, though, energy access has generally been measured with simple, binary metrics (“having a connection” “not…
The Global Geothermal Development Plan (GGDP) continues to mobilize and channel international concessional financing towards expanding geothermal energy in developing countries. Led by ESMAP, the GGDP focuses on initial test drilling…
