Blog Blog by Michaël Aklin and Patrick Bayer Solar-powered microgrids offer an appealing answer to energy poverty in the rural developing world. They are clean, flexible, and can be installed in the most remote areas. But they are also new. Cash-constrained customers,...
Blog Blog by Joseph Jammal The generally agreed upon approach to addressing groundwater consumption has been to work through communities to implement consensus driven conservation policies. The problem is that this approach has not proven effective, and it is...
Blog Blog by Johannes Urpelainen We academics tend to spoil many a good energy access party with pesky questions about “impact”. While the advocacy world often welcomes new innovations and ideas with a warm embrace and enthusiasm, academics tend to be skeptical and...
Blog Blog by Raghav Anand India loses over 230 Terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity through its transmission & distribution networks every year – nearly enough to power the entire country of Indonesia for as long. The northern State of Uttar Pradesh is responsible...
Blog Blog by Johannes Urpelainen Solar lanterns lack the kind of sex appeal other distributed energy technologies tend to have. When we imagine the future of energy, we have in mind solar home systems and mini-grids that offer everything the conventional grid has to...
Blog Blog by Daniel Thomas Since 2005, India has embarked on an ambitious rural electrification drive, most recently known as the Deendayal Upadhyay scheme. The scheme has largely been successful, electrifying nearly 20 million households below India’s poverty line....