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 is a how-to-guide by the RRC.AP for practitioners developing GCF projects. It explains the importance of an exit strategy, different exit strategy approaches, and the process for formulating an exit strategy. It also provides good practice examples.
This guide by the WWF explains the process of developing a monitoring, evaluation and learning plan for your project.
This page is part of a UNDP guide to enterprise risk management (ERM). It explains how to identify risks, how to classify them and how to determine a response.
This guide walks you through the different stages of developing a logical framework for a climate project. It was written for practitioners developing concepts for large Green Climate Fund programmes, so you may not need to include all of the aspects in your proposal, but it is nonetheless useful to know what funders like to […]