This is the Impulsouth Community of Practice (CoP) newsletter. The CoP is a collaborative platform that strengthens capacities within the energy sector, supporting a just and inclusive energy transition with a strong focus on gender equality. Bringing together diverse stakeholders, the CoP fosters knowledge exchange, strengthens institutional capacity, and promotes effective South-South cooperation across nine … Continue reading “CoP Quarterly Newsletter – Issue 1 – June 2026”
This report highlights the importance of sector coupling as a key source of flexibility that cities can explore to stabilise power grid operations when integrating high shares of variable renewable energy sources. It presents a range of sector coupling opportunities available for use in cities, including self-consumption of variable RE sources, the role of thermal … Continue reading “Sector Coupling in Facilitating Integration of Variable Renewable Energy in Cities”
This report highlights the economic, social and environmental benefits that energy and transport sector-coupling and a transition towards EV- and RE-based, efficient systems can create in small island settings, and provides tools for the planning of such a transition.
This blog describes four opportunities for digitalisation to accelerate just energy transitions: smart energy management, decentralized energy systems, climate-resilient farming, and public transport.