This guidance note outlines the advantages and risks of pumped storage hydropower projects, and provides advice for how projects can be structured and funded.
This guide by the Covenant of Mayors of Sub-Saharan Africa shows that urban planning tends to be gender blind, with the design of urban street lighting as a key example. It provides a manual, aimed at African cities, on how to develop gender-responsive public lighting projects. English: https://comssa.org/download/rxeWs6zcOXbTl8qRidGZ9nCB7EFAI4Pa/Gender-sensitive-public-lighting.pdf French: https://comssa.org/download/U3kjdTBHqV6FGKfoI71EgLY2wZrSvtz8/Eclairage-public-sensible-au-genre.pdf
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 […]
This website contains a range of learning resources on Integrated Resource Planning (a methodology for least-cost planning by public utilities), including load forecasting, tariff policies, amd demand side management. It also includes exercises and case studies.
This report describes the context and potential for hydropower development in Madagascar.
This report provides an extensive overview of the hydropower sector in Cameroon, including technologies, project management, and socio-economic and environmental context, and offers an assessment of the feasibility of a specific micro-hydro project in Yaoundé.
This article presents the results of an analysis of Ugandan river and stream hydropower potential.
This slide deck provides a quick introduction to the Ugandan hydropower sector, including relevant actors, current projects and future potential.
This plan provides a comprehensive, forward-looking least-cost plan for the development of the country’s power sector, including both on-grid and off-grid.