Mexico's 2010 national energy strategy aims to promote sustainability and simultaneously increase energy access by increasing the share of renewable resources used to generate energy. The wind farms...
The historic Paris Agreement, reached at Conference of Parties (COP) 21 in December 2015, calls on the world to pursue efforts in limiting the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius and,...
Access to infrastructure is a key driver for reducing poverty and promoting shared prosperity. In Bangladesh, where economic growth has accelerated steadily over the past decades, about a third of...
The Trung Son Hydropower Project is expected to add 1,055 GWh of electricity per year to Vietnam's national grid, meeting the growing demand of the country. Have a look at how it works in this...
Over the past two decades, South Africa has achieved a significant level of electrification: 76 percent of all households now have access to largely grid-connected power, up from 34 percent in 1994....
The record of concession arrangements in stimulating faster and more effective rural electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa is mixed at best: More concessions have failed than have been implemented—...
Win Win Nwe and her family live without electricity in Myanmar. They are among the 84% of people in rural Myanmar who have no electricity connection—making it hard for students to study at night,...
"How can technology and innovation help to address the access to energy in African countries?"
Part Two of our discussion on Africa’s Pulse focusses on how African countries can improve access to...
In the last 15 years, mining companies across Africa have spent over $15 billion to cover the cost of electricity, a vital component of running their businesses. None of the power generated by these...
"Technology innovation for smallholders include the off-grid energy and agriculture nexus, field mechanization and remote surveillance solutions, field sensors, and a wide range of often related...