Off-Grid Living

There’s hope that some industrialised countries will achieve near-universal vaccination against COVID-19 in the coming months. Yet the effort to...

“Being featured in the BBC list of 100 Most Influential Women for 2020 gives great pride to me, my business partners, and Yemen as a whole,” says...

When we unlock our phone or boot up our laptop, most of us take for granted that we’ll be able to connect to the internet, rarely stopping to think...

Charcoal is an essential source of domestic fuel in many sub-Saharan African countries. Overall, the region produces 65% of the world’s charcoal, with...

Fire has been essential for cooking since before the dawn of civilisation. In many places across the world, traditional methods – cooking on an open...

Electrification programmes incur two types of costs: up-front costs and O&M costs. After an initial period, the latter are borne by the programme...

In the early days of the pandemic, we noticed that the data circulating about the impact of COVID-19 was coming from wealthy markets and customer...

In many ways, the ag-energy nexus presents a classic “chicken or egg” challenge. Agricultural activities need reliable energy services to...

Clean energy projects receive government incentives and less scrutiny, and few have policies to minimise human rights abuses.

The current threshold used to define modern energy access is too low

According to the global standard set by the International Energy Agency...