The paper discusses challenges in analyzing the costs of household cooking methods (fuels and associated stove technologies) in lower-income countries, and sources of divergence between observed and true social costs. The challenges in…
This book guides stakeholders on how utilities can define their own smart grid vision, identify priorities, and structure investment plans. While most of these strategic aspects apply to any area of the electricity grid, the book focuses…
RISE is underpinned by individual data collection efforts in each of the 111 countries covered. The full list of data collectors is in appendix 6, and the list of those who provided information in each country is on the RISE website.
The State of Electricity Access Report, 2017, aims to prompt governments, donors, the private sector, civil society organizations, and practitioners to develop interventions to close the electricity access gap by integrating lessons…
The goal of this special feature is to highlight the role of energy efficiency as an energy access resource, along with providing an overview of opportunities where energy efficiency is supporting—and in many cases enabling significant…
This paper examines the power of human capital in expanding energy access and a possible multi-level framework. It begins with the concept of capacity building and its evolution, and then moves to how human capital contributes to energy…
