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Industry Resources
Here you will find a selection of guides, reports and supporting documents from industry relevant organisations that could prove beneficial to you and your team during the Design Challenge.
Don’t forget to also have a look at all the Efficiency for Access publications Efficiency for Access publications as well as the webinars given by our industry experts.
Industry Reflections
- EforA – How Can Energy Access Programmes Address the Needs of People with Disabilities
- The Bangladesh Solar Home System Program – Lessons Learned
- CLASP – Appliances Economic Growth
- Global Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2020 Summary
- Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo 2020 – Presentations
- Innovex – List of references
- Solaris Offgrid – Industry Insights
- UOMA – Mapping the Ugandan off grid energy market
- A Study of Technical, Economic and Social Factors Affecting Micro-Hydropower Plants in Nepal
- Bloomberg NEF and Mini-Grids Partnership – State of the Global Mini-Grids Market Report 2020
- A Virtuous Cycle? – Reviewing the Evidence on Women’s Empowerment and Energy Access, Frameworks, Metrics and Methods
- Acumen – Energy impact report
- EforA – Off-Grid Appliance Market Survey
- HYSTRA – Reaching Scale in Access to Energy
- Reaching the Last-Mile: Women’s Social and Sustainable Energy Entrepenuership
- CESAL – Institutional Presentation (overview of CESAL work)
- M KOPA – Lessons Learnt: Grant funding to private sector market leaders as a catalyst of social impact
- Catalyzing Impact through Business: An Ecosystem Development Approach to meet the SDGs
Industry Innovation
- IEA – Energy Technology Perspective 2020 – A special report on clean energy innovation
- IRENA – Innovation Landscape Report 2019
- EforA – Pathways to Repair in the Off-grid Solar Sector
- GDC – Finding the Sweet Spot: Identifying Affordable Quality Solar Products for the Last Mile
- Think Outside the Grid: Africa’s Trillion Dollar Energy Opportunity
Business Models
- Acumen – Accelerating Energy Access: The Role of Patient Capital
- M KOPA – PAYG models
- How to design PAYGo operational models to improve repayment
- Access to Finance Forum – Strange Beasts: Making Sense of PAYGo Solar Business Models
- Mastercard – Pay on Demand: the Digital Path to Financial Inclusion in Africa
- M KOPA – Affordable clean energy
- M KOPA – Digital insights
- PEEDA and AEPC – 2015 Alumni Workshop Full-Report FEM Alumni
- ESMAP – Funding the Sun: New Paradigms for Financing Off-Grid Solar Companies
- RES4 Africa – RE-thinking Access to Energy Business Models
- Wood Mackenzie – Strategic Investments in Off-Grid Energy Access: Scaling the Utility of the Future for the Last Mile
- AllOn – Impact Energy: Case Study of Successful Off Grid Energy Businesses in Nigeria
- GSMA – Mobile for Development Utilities Report
- GSMA – The Value of Pay-as-You-Go Solar for Mobile Operators
- Off Grid: Electricity
- A Sustainable Model for Commercial Financial Institutions to Extend Energy Financing to Women in Nigeria
- M KOPA – Unlocking Rural Digital Finance with Solar Energy
Batteries
Cooking
- MECS – Cooking with Electricity: A Cost Perspective
- MECS – eCookbooks
- MECS – Exploring Future of Alternative Cooking in Cambodia
- SEI and Hivos – Beyond Fire: Backcasting a Pathway to Fully Electric Cooking in Rural Kenya by 2030
- Opportunities for Electric Cooking in Kenya
- PEEDA – Unlocking Electric Cooking on Nepali Micro-Hydropower Mini-Grids
- PEEDA – Final Project Report on E-Cooking
Productive Use Appliances
- Productive Use Of Energy In African Micro Grids
- A2EI – Evaluation of Solar Powered Agricultural Technologies for Productive Use Applications: A Modeling Approach
- EforA – Solar Milling: Exploring Market Requirements to Close the Commercial Viability Gap
- Green Mini Grid – Milling as a Productive Application in Green Mini-Grid (GMG) Systems
- Green Mini Grid – Ice-Making as a Productive Application in Green Mini-Grid (GMG) Systems
- Photovoltaics for Productive Use Appliances
- Factor[e] – The Opportunity at the Nexus of Energy and Agriculture
Refrigeration and Healthcare
- EforA – Phasing Down HFCs in Off – and Weak-Grid Refrigeration
- WHO and UNICEF – Solar Direct-Drive Vaccine Refrigerators and Freezers
- WHO and UNICEF – Introducting Solar-Powered Vaccine Refrigerator and Freezer Systems
- WHO – PQS Performance Specifications for Solar-Powered Vaccine Refrigerators or Combined Refrigerator and Water-Pack Freezer
- Gavi – Cold-Chain Equipment Optimisation Platform
- CEEW and OXFAM India – Powering Primary Healthcare Through Solar in India
- M KOPA – PAYG Solar powered fridge: Developing a “first time” product for low income customers
- Devidayal Solar Solutions – Increasing Livelihood Opportunities Through Decentralised Solar Powered Refrigeration Solutions