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We focus on promoting equitable and resilient energy systems, responsible energy industries, and pro-poor access to affordable, efficient and clean energy services

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Renewable energy

A poster depicting the environmental and social costs of mineral extraction.

A just energy transition needs more than benefit-sharing: a view from the Atacama Salt Flat

Nicolás M. Perrone
09 April 2024

A salt mine, with a white cliff against a blue sky and a tiny lorry in the distance.

Trade deals and the energy transition: whose voices count?

Lorenzo Cotula
23 April 2024

An oil platform in the sea.

UN releases Emissions Gap Report 2023

20 November 2023

A man wearing a mask, standing in front of a large number of solar panels, talks to a wider group of people who are mostly wearing high visibility clothing and hard hats.

Rethinking rural electrification: are cooperatives best for delivery?

Kevin Johnstone and Frank Bergh
25 September 2023

A man thrashes rice in a field, with mountains in the background.

The push for clean energy: how nickel mining expansion is impacting agrarian economies in Indonesia

Mutmainnah Adenan and Imran Tumora
12 September 2023

Woman holds and looks at a smartphone

Bundling technology for gender equality

November 2022 - July 2023

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Learn more about focused areas of IIED's energy work

Transforming energy systems

A programme of work focused on equitable energy driving climate-resilient communities

Publications

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22506IIED.pdf

Energising adaptation: key considerations for coupling energy access with climate adaptation and resilience

22121g.pdf

Calibrating cooking for refugee camps and surrounding host communities in Tanzania

22001g.pdf

Improved cook stoves impact study - Eritrea

21581iied.pdf

Bundling technology and gender for resilience

21156iied.pdf

Better farmer benefits from renewable energy: improving inclusion and uptake in Kenya

20721iied.pdf

What drives safeguarding for China’s hydropower projects in LDCs?

20356IIED.pdf

Productive uses of energy for resilient livelihoods in LDCs

16051IIED.pdf

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

16681iied.pdf

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

G03684.pdf

Submission by IIED to the UNFCCC on ADP work stream 2: the pre 2020 mitigation ambition

People installing solar panels in a field

Accelerating energy access with aggregation

Article, 13 November 2019

People putting up solar panels

Inclusive finance for universal energy access

Article, 13 November 2019

A large solar panel with Nepalese mountains in the background.

Critical theme: How can inclusive finance accelerate universal energy access?

Event on 14 November 2019

An oil rig silhouetted at sunset

Critical theme: The polluter elite, inequality and the ecological crisis

Event on 22 July 2019

A group of fishermen on a boat in Bangladesh

Leave no one behind: assessing policy choices

Archived Project

Kaleta Dam under construction in Guinea (Photo: Jamie Skinner/IIED)

Who should carry the financial risks in large private sector financed hydropower projects?

Insight, 17 December 2018

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

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

Insight, 19 September 2018

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)

Improving Tanzania’s power quality: can data help?

Insight, 29 June 2018

The sun beats down on Dongo village, Tanzania. Children walk with cattle while women carry water buckets (Photo: Chih-Jung Lee)

Shining a light on energy consumers in rural Tanzania

Insight, 12 March 2018

Solar panels, such as these in Bhutan, are benefiting millions of energy-poor households (Photo: Richard Furlong, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Turning up the volume: five insights into aggregating finance for expanding off grid energy investment

Insight, 03 November 2017