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 executive summary of a larger report provides a quick overview of the growth of battery demand since the early 1990s. It shows that the reduction in battery costs and the increase in efficiency has led to a domino effect, as batteries become viable alternatives to other energy sources for ever more applications.
The Long Duration Energy Storage Council is a global non-profit working with energy companies, technology providers, investors and governments to accelerate the deployment of large-scale energy storage around the world. This platform provides an overview of different energy storage technologies.
This article provides a quick and accessible introduction to different energy storage technologies, including thermal energy storage, pumped storage, hydrogen, and gravity batteries, with links to recent projects.
This explainer by the German Heinrich Böll Foundation provides a quick overview of green hydrogen, the way it is produced, the role it can play in the energy transition, and the main challenges.
This World Bank report by the Energy Storage Partnership provides advice on enabling policy and regulatory environments to attract investment in grid-scale energy storage projects in developing countries.
This report provides recommendations for improving the availability of sex-disaggregated and specific gender equality data in the energy sector, to improve decision making and programme design.
This article by ILO’s International Training Centre explains the importance of learning objectives, introduces the competencies framework, and provides a practical guide for writing effective learning objectives.
This factsheet provides some general information about needs analyses and guides learning and development specialists through the process of analysing learning needs in their organisation.
This resource guides trainers in conducting activities on greening TVET. It compiles content from various sources and offers practical strategies tailored for TVET leaders, managers, and instructors. The manual provides a step-by-step approach to help trainers, administrators, and academics lead TVET toward sustainability.