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Insight

Accelerating energy access with aggregation

Wind power turbines and electricity pylons alongside one another in China

Podcast

Delivering energy access for all: Make Change Happen podcast episode 2

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Overview

Inclusive finance for universal energy access

A local blackout in Dar Es Salaam. Power outages in Tanzania's capital are often caused by old cables and transformers (Photo: jay grandin, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Blog

Improving Tanzania’s power quality: can data help?

Rural welders use mini-grid electricity to generate income (Photo: Energy Change Lab)

Blog

Power that changes lives: three lessons from a rural energy champion

Among IIED's work on ways to ensure that the benefits of energy systems reach the people who currently lack access to energy are energy labs in Tanzania, explains Ben Garside (Image: IIED)

News

Understanding the SDGs: powering Goal Seven

Transforming energy systems

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People putting up solar panels

Overview

Inclusive finance for universal energy access

A carpenter uses a jointer powered by a mini-grid

Overview

Productive uses of energy to jumpstart livelihoods

Solar panel

Project

Aggregating off-grid energy solutions to deliver SDG7 energy access

Latest publications

Small business, big demand: facilitating finance for productive uses of energy in Tanzania

Energy for all: Better use of subsidies to achieve impact

Can cooking solutions for refugees better serve gender dynamics?

Stoking finance for affordable cookstoves: experience from Malawi and Zimbabwe

Climate finance for hydropower

How climate finance can help repurpose hydropower

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Where’s the capital for homegrown companies? Why energy access investments in Kenya need to go local

Blog, Dec 2020

A carpenter uses a jointer powered by a mini-grid

Productive uses of energy to jumpstart livelihoods

Overview, Dec 2020

A woman wearing a chef's uniform and hat poses in front of a breadmaking machine

Getting personal: tailoring support to power up Tanzania’s rural businesses

Blog, Dec 2020

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Equipped and productive: better financing for community businesses in Tanzania

Blog, Nov 2020

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Energy, finance and community business – where is the money?

Webinar, Nov 2020

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SUNGAS: Ensuring sustainable energy access in Nigeria

Project, Oct 2020

Solar energy panel on a hut.

How can subsidies accelerate universal energy access?

Event, Oct 2020

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Building green and inclusive energy

Project, Oct 2020

A man and woman sat down cooking with a charcoal cookstove.

Calibrating cooking to affect deforestation and violence against women in displaced settings

Project, Sep 2020

Men and women sitting around a table, writing on poster-like papers

Inclusive and integrated energy planning in Kitui County, Kenya

Project, Sep 2020

Aggregating off-grid energy solutions to deliver SDG7 energy access

Project, Sep 2020

Solar panels on the ground next to a lake.

Working in partnership towards more inclusive Sustainable Energy for All

Article, Sep 2020