Energy

Almost three billion people don’t have clean, safe cooking facilities and close to one billion people don’t have access to the electricity that could power their progress, improve their health, education and opportunities to earn a better living.

Energy access is a key element to improving people’s lives, especially more in remote rural communities where mains electricity does not reach and basic needs are met with difficulties. In these locations there are a number of small-scale renewable energy technologies that can be used. Under this section you can find our various energy resources from our years of experiences and field work.

Our energy collection offers a wide variety of resources and guides for clean cooking and energy solutions to inspire change makers aiming to transform community energy access, based on the research and experiences of energy access practitioners working on projects with Practical Action and our partner organizations. Topics covered under energy are Clean Cooking, Smoke hood designs, Biogas, Solar and many more..

Further information

Clean Energy Solutions Center offers no-cost expert policy assistance, webinars and training forums, clean energy policy reports, data, and tools provided in partnership with more than 35 leading international and regional clean energy organizations.

Publications

From Practical Action Publishing

A Handbook of Small-scale Energy Technologies
Edited By Neil Noble
To mark the UN Year of Energy in 2012, Practical Action is publishing some of its Technical Briefs for the benefit of energy development practitioners around the world. Practical Answers 1 is the first in a new series of handbooks that provide guides on a variety of subjects for international development workers.

External resources

Energy Access Practitioner Network is the United Nations Foundation’s contribution to the United Nations’ Sustainable Energy for All initiative, which aims to bring energy access to the 1.1 billion people around the world who still lack it, ensuring a sustainable energy future for all by 2030. Building Energy Access Markets was initiated with the aim of designing a new framework to systematically and comprehensively analyse and assess decentralised energy service markets.