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 paper underscores the need for sustainable utilities to deliver the energy transition in lower- and middle-income countries, and provides recommendations to governments and other stakeholders.
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.
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 article discusses the potential of heat and electricity co-generation from biomass waste to both expand energy access and improve waste management in rural areas.
This policy brief investigates Zambia’s policy and legislative framework for energy generation from waste, and provides recommendations for improvements.
This paper presents the results of a techno-economic study of a potential waste-to-energy plant in Kampala, Uganda, including modeling to project energy generation potential and the payback period for the initial investment.
This brief presents the regulatory framework and country context for waste-to-energy projects in Côte d’Ivoire.
This feasibility study describes the institutional framework for waste management in Côte d’Ivoire, presents a baseline on compost and biogas value chains, and provides a feasibility assessment based on economic models.