Africa’s cities provide a strategic location to drive the goal of universal access to affordable, reliable and modern energy services. Municipal support can fast track electrification; they can enforce thermally efficient housing development, lead efficient cook stove programmes and promote alternative technologies such as solar water heating and efficient appliances.
This report is compiled and published as an important tool to help track and measure progress toward increasing access to and adoption of cleaner, more efficient cookstoves and fuels (GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN COOKSTOVES, 2016).
This toolkit’s principal aim is to be a key reference document for the development of sustainable business models and operational off-grid projects in South Africa (Carbon Trust and CSIR, 2017).
This report is the first volume of a three-part guide for re-writing how the world needs to think about, and act on, energy service delivery if we are to eradicate energy poverty by 2030 in line with global goals. This report focuses on robust energy planning and policymaking for universal access (Practical Action, 2016).
The State of Electricity Access Report examines the critical role of energy toward the achievement of the SDGs, provides a snapshot of the status of electricity access, based on the recent Global Tracking Framework Data (IEA and World Bank, 2017) and it explores how countries can create a conducive environment for a transformative electricity access roll out, how clean energy fits into the picture, and how emerging and innovative service delivery models can accelerate progress on meeting the goals (World Bank and ESMAP,2017).
This report explores the technological opportunities for addressing energy poverty, as well as the policy challenges involved in promoting and deploying these technologies (Morrissey, 2017).
This report investigates the barriers and opportunities for scaling up market-based approaches for providing access to clean energy to low-income consumers in developing countries (Hystra, 2017).
This is the 3rd iteration of the City of Cape Town's State of Energy report, providing a thorough and detailed overview of energy consumption across the city.
This report synthesises the results of a household energy use survey undertaken in Cape Town (SEA, 2015).
This report synthesises the results of a household energy use survey undertaken in Polokwane Municipality (SEA, 2015).
A first-ever model of the urban energy future of urban Sub-Saharan Africa produced by Sustainable Energy Africa through the SAMSET programme.
This report assesses the emerging opportunities for realising SE4AL goals, and the Action Plan concentrates initially on two main sources of clean modern energy - Liquefied Petroleum Gas and Improved Cookstoves.
This ESMAP/Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (2015) report provides the first global baseline for clean and improved cooking, including analyses of fuel and stove penetration, end-user segmentation, and industry structure. It offers lessons and recommendations that can guide key stakeholders in developing increasingly effective interventions to help billions of people who still rely on biomass for their cooking needs.
The purpose of this paper is to review trends, policies, plans and programmes for increasing access to energy services in Ghana by the year 2015 and beyond.
This report provides a retrospective overview on AFREA. Regional programs that were supported include: Lighting Africa, the Biomass Energy Initiative for Africa (BEIA), Africa Clean Cooking Energy Solutions (ACCES), the Gender and Energy Program, and the African Electrification Initiative (AEI).
Summaries of best practice case studies in four countries: India, Bangladesh, Columbia and Brazil. Covers electrification, biogas, LPG and efficient cookstoves (ESMAP).
The main objective of the survey is to collect data at household and community level, which will be used to establish useful information regarding state of electricity access in the country. The data will also be used to monitor, evaluate progress and impact of rural electrification (grid and off-grid) efforts in the country (REA and TANESCO, 2017).
This project explores the current experiences and challenges of the electrification programme in South Africa (Tait, 2015).
This study analyzes household expenditure behavior at the quintile level, with a focus on energy expenditures.
The Joe Slovo informal settlement upgrade in Cape Town was undertaken with innovative planning and sustainable energy approaches (2014)
This report is based on the household energy survey conducted in Namuwongo in in Uganda focused on energy issues and better understanding the particular and unique character of the energyscape in the neighbourhood (Silver, et al., 2015).
This paper gives an overview of some key issues with the current electrification programme with respect to informal settlements, and to generate some practical recommendations for the City of Cape Town (Tait, 2017).
IMPACT, Issue 09, September 2015 carries this article on a community approach to bring safe, legal electric power to Kenya's urban poor.
This report presents a study conducted by the Stockholm Environment Institute to address this knowledge gap by empirically assessing the role of socio-economic attributes and product-specific attributes as determinants of cooking stove choice at the household level.
POWERING NAMUWONGO (2015) Kampala is experiencing rapid urbanisation and resulting transformation with over two million people now living in Uganda's capital city. Many of these residents live in informal settlements with full access to urban services such including energy limited as city authorities and utility companies struggle to create infrastructure for everyone. But that doesn't mean that people in popular neighbourhoods like Namuwongo do without, they just find other ways to power their lives, creating jobs and vital income but also everyday worries and environmental concern. This short film explores some of these different energy systems operating in Namuwongo and the people who create, use, sell and buy them. Director: Joel Ongwech Sound: David Naxic Producer: Jonathan Silver Researchers: Joel Ongwech/Gladys Acan/Jonathan Silver/ Music: Joel Kahiri and Myko Ouma Funded by the Leverhulme Trust Supported by the SAMSET Project