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People installing solar panels in a field

Insight

Accelerating energy access with aggregation

Wind power turbines and electricity pylons alongside one another in China

Podcast

Delivering energy access for all: Make Change Happen podcast episode 2

People putting up solar panels

Overview

Inclusive finance for universal energy access

A local blackout in Dar Es Salaam. Power outages in Tanzania's capital are often caused by old cables and transformers (Photo: jay grandin, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Blog

Improving Tanzania’s power quality: can data help?

Rural welders use mini-grid electricity to generate income (Photo: Energy Change Lab)

Blog

Power that changes lives: three lessons from a rural energy champion

Among IIED's work on ways to ensure that the benefits of energy systems reach the people who currently lack access to energy are energy labs in Tanzania, explains Ben Garside (Image: IIED)

News

Understanding the SDGs: powering Goal Seven

Transforming energy systems

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People putting up solar panels

Overview

Inclusive finance for universal energy access

A carpenter uses a jointer powered by a mini-grid

Overview

Productive uses of energy to jumpstart livelihoods

Solar panel

Project

Aggregating off-grid energy solutions to deliver SDG7 energy access

Latest publications

Energy services for local development: integrated and inclusive planning for county governments in Kenya

Small business, big demand: facilitating finance for productive uses of energy in Tanzania

Small business, big demand: facilitating finance for productive uses of energy in Tanzania

Energy for all: Better use of subsidies to achieve impact

Can cooking solutions for refugees better serve gender dynamics?

Stoking finance for affordable cookstoves: experience from Malawi and Zimbabwe

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A woman carries a Nile perch landed at Got Kachola, Kenya, where the NGO Renewable World is establishing community-run energy hubs for fish chilling and other local energy needs (Photo: Sarah Best/IIED)

Four challenges to powering local economies

Blog, Sep 2016

Chart showing decentralised energy access – finance needed and contribution of climate finance (Image: Sarah Best/IIED)

The Green Climate Fund: will the vulnerable be overlooked in a rush to spend?

Blog, Jun 2016

Smog over Kathamandu. Air pollution in Nepal's capital regularly breaches the World Health Organisation's safety guidelines (Kashish Das Shrestha)

Clearing the air in Kathmandu

Blog, Jun 2016

Villagers in Chitral protest about unreliable electricity supplies (Photo: Ground Report, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Crucial role of civil society in campaigning for universal energy access

News, Mar 2016

A fishing vessel is dwarfed by a crude oil tanker in Singapore harbour, illustrating the impact oil prices have on sustainable fisheries (Photo: Andrew Thomas, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Plunging oil prices: what happens to our oceans?

Blog, Feb 2016

A proper technological integration would make feasible the implementation of more micro-grids such as this one, pictured, on Chile's border with Bolivia (Photo: Boris Lopicich)

What will speed up the micro-grid revolution?

Blog, Nov 2015

Among IIED's work on ways to ensure that the benefits of energy systems reach the people who currently lack access to energy are energy labs in Tanzania, explains Ben Garside (Image: IIED)

Understanding the SDGs: powering Goal Seven

News, Sep 2015

Companies such as SteamaCo are making energy easier to access in remote villages in Kenya by using 'microgrids' (Photo: Sam Duby, SteamaCo)

Feeding into energy access: data-driven funding

Blog, Jul 2015

The first photograph taken of Earthrise by Apollo 8 in December 1968. The Apollo Programme to Combat Climate Change proposes large-scale public investment and determined political effort from powerful states to take down carbon energy sources (Photo: NASA/woodleywonderworks, Flickr, via Creative Commons)

What should a no-carbon democracy look like?

Blog, Jul 2015

Wang Zhi, assistant production manager of Jiamusi Zhongheng Thermoelectric Ltd, which was built in 1999 to provide 1.75 million GJ annually for Dalkia with an annual coal consumption of 350,000 tons (Photo: Asian Development Bank, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

The flipside of China's shift away from coal

Blog, Jun 2015

South Africa: Anna with friends and family in front of her new solar water heating system. It is often more cost-effective to provide energy services to poor communities via off-grid sources (Photo: Abri le Roux, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Public and private sectors: delivering energy access for people living in poverty

News, Jun 2015

A community-based green energy project: Sinteyo and the women's group with solar panels at the greenhouse in Isiolo, Kenya (Photo: Annie Bungeroth/CAFOD)

Sharing the load: who pays for energy access?

Blog, May 2015