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Publication date: 2018
Author: Innovative Energy & Research
Description: This research is helpful for finding out difficulties in rural electrification, awareness of policies, fundings, loan facilities, subsidies and training for the farmers. Also this research indentifies what Steps are to be initiated with Rural Electric corporation, power sector reforms and State Electricity boards. Also this research provides the features of rural electrification in India and the photovoltaic solar farming, solar home systems for rural electrification.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: European Union
Description: This report covers the first year of the operation of the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD). As such, it merges into one the reports on blended finance operations under the Africa Investment Platform (AIP, formerly the AfIF) and the European Neighbourhood Platform (NIP, formerly the NIF). It presents the first results of the EFSD, such as approved blending investments, and the first steps towards implementing the EFSD Guarantee.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: SEforALL
Description: We hope that, through this report, a critical message will be sent to decision-makers in donor governments, the development finance community, the private sector, and recipient countries to ensure that future financial commitments are focused on ensuring access to sustainable energy for all. Urgent action is needed now to trigger more investment in this critical sector over the next 12 years, to keep the promise of the Sustainable Development Goals—to leave no one behind.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: EJM / Africa50
Description: There are significant natural gas resources across the African continent. Natural gas can be an essential source of liquid fuels like propane, and is an important building block for industrial products – fertilizers, plastics and pharmaceuticals. It is a heat source for the manufacturing of glass, cement, ceramics and more. This flexibility coupled with abundant natural gas resources in sub-Saharan Africa, Africa’s energy demand growth, and its commitments to universal electricity access and cleaner energy, are intensifying the focus on the development of African gas.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: Lighting Global / IFC
Description: This short report introduces a new tool developed to provide information to companies, investors and policy makers on market attractiveness for pay as you go (PAYG) energy services in Sub-Saharan Africa. The index comprises 70 indicators of market attractiveness, organised under three main pillars – demand, supply and enabling environment - and a variety of sub-pillars.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: IRENA
Description: A previous report (IRENA, 2017) examined longterm modelling and tools to expand variable renewable power in emerging economies. The present report complements that earlier work. It considers proven processes and regulatory practices for long-term power system planning, drawing primarily on experiences with integrated resource planning (IRP) from South Africa and regulated markets in the United States. Based on insights from those regulated markets, the study aims to guide power system planning processes and regulatory actions, with particular consideration given to ramping up solar and wind power, over the next few years.
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Publication date: 2018, January
Author: IFC
Description: The 2018 Global Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report is the fourth report in a biennial series established over the past 8 years as the report of record for the off-grid solar industry. While the Lighting Global/GOGLA franchise of six-month market updates (H1 2017, H2 2016) serve as the go-to source of information for investors, industry members, policymakers, and other stakeholders in the off-grid solar space, the flagship Market Trends Report provides an opportunity to step back for reflection on long-term trends, challenges and opportunities—illuminating a path forward for the sector. The 2018 publication takes stock of the industry across six axes: market fundamentals, sales, the competitive landscape, finance, the enabling environment, and impact. It provides in-depth analysis on current market dynamics, projections for the coming five years, and a blueprint for how actors in this market can compete in a swiftly evolving industry ecosystem.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: ALSF / CLDP
Description: Part of the ‘Understanding’ series, this handbook provides its readers with a better understanding of the expansive, and often confusing, universe of financing options for power project development.
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Publication date: 2018, January
Author: Quantum Global
Description: This report examines case studies of recent and current green energy infrastructure projects and their financing in Africa.
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Publication date: 2018, January
Author: IGA / IRENA
Description: IGA / IRENA: Geothermal Outlook in East Africa: Perspectives for Geothermal Development.
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Publication date: 2018, January
Author: ESMAP
Description: Getting to Gender Equality in Electricity Infrastructure: Lessons from Electricity Generation, Transmission, and Distribution Projects examines the social and gender footprint of large-scale electricity generation, transmission, and distribution projects to establish a foundation on which further research and replication of good practices can be built.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: AFREPREN
Description: This article is based on a regional study by the authors reviewing the status, challenges and prospects of ongoing and planned power sector reform in eastern and southern Africa with special emphasis on the implications for the poor.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: Frankfurt School / UN / BNEF
Description: The Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment report, formerly Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment, was produced for the first time in 2007 under UN Environment’s Sustainable Energy Finance Initiative (SEFI). It grew out of efforts to track and publish comprehensive information about international investments in renewable energy. The latest edition of this authoritative annual report tells the story of the most recent developments, signs and signals in the financing of renewable power and fuels. It explores the issues affecting each type of investment, technology and type of economy.
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Publication date: 2018, January
Author: Clifford Chance
Description: We explore opportunities for the mining and renewables sectors to collaborate from renewable power offering mining companies lower energy costs, protection against fuel price volatility and mitigation of the risk of power interruptions to renewable energy companies benefiting from the growth of a new category of credit-worthy, long term power purchasers and potential locations for project development.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: IRENA
Description: Renewable power generation capacity is measured as the maximum net generating capacity of power plants and other installations that use renewable energy sources to produce electricity. For most countries and technologies, the data reflects the capacity installed and connected at the end of the calendar year. Data has been obtained from a variety of sources, including IRENA’s questionnaire, official national statistics, industry association reports, other reports and news articles.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: Acumen
Description: Our intent with this report is to share what Acumen has learned about capital – the needs, the optimal mix, and the role that patient capital plays in off-grid energy.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: IRENA / CPI
Description: Following the format of CPI’s Global landscape of climate finance series, the report highlights correlations between renewable energy finance, cost reductions and megawatts and installed.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: IRENA
Description: Renewable Energy and Jobs, presents the status of employment, both by technology and in selected countries, over the past year. Jobs in the sector (including large hydropower) increased 5.3% in 2017, for a total of 10.3 million people employed worldwide, according to this fifth edition in the series.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: REN21
Description: This year’s Renewables 2018 Global Status Report GSR reveals two realities: one in which a revolution in the power sector is driving rapid change towards a renewable energy future, and another in which the overall transition is not advancing with the speed needed.
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Publication date: 2018
Author: IRENA
Description: This latest brief from IRENA captures some of these trends and discusses the key components of an enabling environment to scale-up off-grid deployment.
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