Updates
Global LEAP Results-Based Financing Mechanism Opens Bid Submissions for Electric Pressure Cookers
Oct 05, 2021
The Global LEAP Results-Based Financing mechanism for electric pressure cookers provides money in incentives to help accelerate the global appliance market for EPCs.
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New Report: Solar Water Pump Customers Report Improvements in Their Lives
Jul 08, 2021
The Uses & Impacts of Solar Water Pumps Report explores the benefits and challenges experienced by customers in East Africa, Senegal and Zambia based on findings by the 60 Decibels team. It provides insights to inform stakeholders and encourage scaling of markets for nascent technologies like solar water pumps.
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Electric Pressure Cookers Enhance Community Resiliency
Sep 28, 2020
This analysis offers insights into the role of electric cooking in building community resiliency during a global shock, like the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Getting to Know Off- and Weak-Grid Consumers: The Unforeseen Impacts of Energy Efficient Off-Grid Appliances
Feb 11, 2019
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Energy Access Practitioner Network 2017 Survey Highlights Appliances
Mar 05, 2018
The United Nations Foundation-led Energy Access Practitioner Network released its 2017 survey results, the latest in a series the Network has conducted since 2012. As the largest network of its kind, the Practitioner Network’s annual member survey “gauges the pulse” across the energy access value chain, from consumer finance to product design, marketing, distribution, after-sales service, and research and development.
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Efficiency for Access – A New Phase of Cooperation to Accelerate Energy Access Through Affordable, Efficient Appliances
Jan 08, 2018
UK aid, USAID/Power Africa, Rockefeller Foundation, Shell Foundation, Good Energies Foundation, and more join together to promote energy efficient appliances as a powerful catalyst to clean energy access
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