Useful Links

Energy Access:

Building Energy Access Markets: A Value Chain Analysis of Key Energy Market Systems

Can technology free developing countries from light poverty?  (The Guardian piece)

Energy Poverty: Global Challenges and Local Solutions 

Powering a Home with Just 25 Watts of Solar PV: Super-Efficient Appliances Can Enable Expanded Off-Grid Energy Service Using Small Solar Power Systems (Global LEAP/LBNL report, April 2015)

Renewables Global Status Report 2015
Standardised impact metrics for the off-grid energy sector (GOGLA report, June 2015)

Sustainable Development Goal 7:

How to Achieve Global Goal 7: Sustainable Energy for All

Solid indicators proposed for SDG7

Gender and Energy:

Women, Energy and Economic Empowerment

Investment and Finance:

Climatescope 2014: Mapping the Global Frontiers for Clean Energy Investment
–> Calculate your own score with the Climatescope 2014 tool >>

Green Climate Fund clears ways for $2.5 bln funding

Why clean energy is now expanding even when fossil fuels are cheap

Health and Energy:

PV Systems for Rural Health Facilities in Developing Areas: A completion of lessons learned (International Energy Agency Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme)

SEforAll Global Tracking Framework reports:

SEforALL Global Tracking Framework 2015, Summary Report

SEforALL Global Tracking Framework 2015, Full Report

SEforALL Global Tracking Framework (GTF 2013 and 2015, full list)

World Energy Outlook reports:

International Energy Agency – World Energy Outlook publications

World Energy Outlook Special Report: Energy and Climate Change (2015 edition)

World Energy Outlook Special Report: Energy for All (Special early excerpt of World Energy Outlook 2011)

World Energy Outlook Special Report: Energy for Poverty (Special early excerpt of World Energy Outlook 2010 for UN General Assembly on the Millennium Development Goals)