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 article investigates the benefits to women of electricity access, beyond just economic benefits.
This policy brief explains the links between energy access and gender equality, and provides policy considerations.
This report assesses the impact of the Ivorian National Rural Electrification Programme on the lives and empowerment of rural women.
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 guide addresses the challenges faced by rural energy enterprises in developing countries, and sets out solutions such as business models offering cooking energy as a service.
This action plan, developed with support from SEforALL and ECREEE, lays out the energy access strategy of Côte d’Ivoire for 2016-2020/2030. It includes extensive background and context as well as information on strategic priorities and measures to promote these.
This report identifies and analyses key risks and barriers to private-sector investment in interconnected mini-grids in Nigeria, and evaluates policy and financial instruments designed to address them.
This guidebook summarizes a broad range of policy and financial instruments that governments can implement to foster the development of the interconnected mini-grid market, driven by the private sector.