Press release: Solaris Offgrid develops innovative OpenPAYGO Link project with support from Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund

26 February 2021

The Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund has announced Solaris Offgrid ’s successful development of OpenPAYGO Link .

Since receiving funding from UK aid through the Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund in 2019, the UK-based technology company has designed a free and secure, open-source technology designed to improve...

Press release: Sure Chill completes innovative smart controller development with support from Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund

15 December 2020

On 10 December, the Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund announced the successful completion of the Sure Chill company’s ‘Smart Box’ project, designed to make domestic refrigeration more efficient and affordable in...

Press release: Solar-powered technology to level the playing field for women and girls in world’s poorest countries

12 October 2020

Women and girls and other disadvantaged groups in developing countries will have better access to clean energy, thanks to new funding from UK aid and the IKEA Foundation.

Today, the Efficiency for Access Research and Development Fund has awarded 20 organisations, including several from the...

New paper published: 'Two Birds, One Stone—Reframing Cooking Energy Policies in Africa and Asia'

18 June 2019
Dr Joni Cook

The latest paper by Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme team members Dr Simon Batchelor, Prof Ed Brown, Dr Nigel Scott and Dr Jon Leary has been published in Energies journal in April 2019, and centres on reframing cooking energy policies in Africa and Asia.

This paper, entitled 'Two Birds, One Stone—Reframing Cooking Energy Policies in Africa and Asia', describes how a new UK Aid programme (April 2019) will be seeking to intentionally change international energy policy...

Bangladesh, Biogas and Clean Cooking – A ‘Direction, Not a Destination’?

26 April 2019
Dr Jonathan Cloke
The ugly beauty of simplicity Consider Bangladesh. By 2017 something short of 36% of the population was urbanized [i] , meaning that for the remaining rural 60%, life is hard, brutal and biomass dependent.

As a result, the length and breadth of Bangladesh is pockmarked with uncountable millions of primitive stoves, like the one in the photo. The enemy.

But for all the drudgery involved in collecting firewood...

Transforming Energy Access: Innovations towards SDG7 Event

23 April 2019
Prof. Ed Brown

Several members of the LCEDN attended this event organised by the Carbon Trust in March.

The one-day event was convened on behalf of DfID and was dedicated to accelerating the transition between clean energy innovations and impact at scale, especially in Africa, through improved alignment of supportive policy and investment.

For an overview see: https://www.carbontrust.com/news/2019/03/...

South Asia workshop to increase community energy resilience held in Kathmandu.

10 April 2019
South Asia workshop to increase community energy resilience held in Kathmandu.

26/03/2019

In February, a South Asia workshop was held in Kathmandu in Nepal as part of the Collaborations for Community Energy Resilience in Low-Income Countries project, a partnership between LCEDN and the Energy and Economic Growth Applied Research Programme (EEG*). Using a whole systems energy research approach, the project brings together social science...

New blog series ~ community participation in designing and implementing off-grid energy systems in Tanzania by Hannah Mottram

27 February 2019

We'd like to introduce a new blog series authored by Hannah Mottram. Hannah is a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield, and her PhD research focuses on working with local communities, civil society organisations and private companies to research minigrids for rural electrification in Tanzania. Hannah's new blog series focuses on community participation in designing and implementing off-grid energy systems in Tanzania, and can be accessed...

Small-scale wind: Experiences from the Wind Empowerment Conference 2018, Chennai, India, by Alfie Alsop

24 January 2019
We are delighted to showcase this blog by Alfie Alsop , which summarises his experiences of participating in the Wind Empowerment Conference 2018, which was held in December 2018 in Chennai, India. Alfie is a PhD research student at the University of Strathclyde, UK, whose research uses Market Assessments as a tool for highlighting where small-scale wind power...

STACKING ELECTRICITY – THE LOHADI SOLAR NANOGRID

23 November 2018
Dr Jonathan Cloke

Bangladesh, November 18 th 2018

I’d nearly forgotten about the conversation I had with our friends in the ENERGIA network about what I referred to as ‘electricity stacking’, when we rolled up in our bus to the Lohadi solar nanogrid in Mymensingh district in Bangladesh. We’d been talking about fuel stacking as an aspect of resilience and a precautionary behaviour of bottom-of-the-pyramid (BoP) households, where they persisted in using multiple energy sources for different...

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