This webpage provides an introduction to smart grids, an overview of recent progress and recommendations for governments and utilities.
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 […]
Institutions all over the world are setting up microcredentials in responses to calls from governments and industry: short courses, usually offered online by accredited institutions, with an emphasis on the needs of the workplace. They are also often used for retraining and upskilling. This book explains how to start offering microcredentials as an academic institution.
This guide aims to accelerate the flexibility and responsiveness of learning systems by providing guidance on the design, issue and recognition of micro-credentials.
This report highlights the main challenges and opportunities in energy transition financing from a regional perspective, highlighting commonalities and differences across Africa, Asia and the Pacific (APAC), Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
This report aims to support state-level leadership and action in pursuit of the just energy transition in Mexico, by providing a rationale for state-level action, an overview of international good practices, an analysis of challenges and opportunities, and a toolkit of energy transition measures that states can consider adopting.
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 report looks at the mineral demand for a net-zero emissions energy system, focusing on seven critical minerals and discussing the role of technological choices, circular economy strategies, and responsible mining in reducing the environmental impact of the transition.
This report investigates the potential to develop circular supply chains for EV batteries.
This report brings together the latest data and information on batteries from around the world, including recent market developments and technological advances. It also offers insights and analysis on leading markets and key barriers to growth, and identifies synergies and potential bottlenecks across different sectors and parts of the supply chain.