In view of sustainable development goals that are likely to include increased access to water and energy services, this report seeks to inform decision makers, stakeholders and practitioners about the inter-linkages, potential synergies and trade-offs, and to highlight the need for appropriate responses and regulatory frameworks that account for both water and energy priorities.

This report reviews three years of analysis and innovative approaches to defining energy access and addressing energy poverty as presented in previous editions of the report. It re-emphasises the enabling role that energy plays in alleviating poverty as well as the need to focus on efforts that boost the nascent decentralized energy sector.

This report compiles international case studies that address technical and economic challenges related to renewable energy generation and detail the approaches taken by individual countries.

With a focus on Africa, this webinar—part of a series—presents the findings of REN21’s Renewables 2012 Global Status Report, which addresses the cumulating effect of steady growth in renewable energy markets, support policies and investment over the past years.

This portal provides access to over 10,000 existing references of studies on renewable resources and potentials available worldwide. The information on this portal is presented using interactive flash maps with color codes that indicate the number of references available by country. Renewable energy resources considered include biomass, geothermal energy, hydropower, marine, solar and wind energy.

This report presents background on the energy sector in Sub-Saharan Africa and overviews select energy interventions, evaluating them according to seven criteria for success. Case studies of renewable power generation in Mauritius and Kenya, electrification in South Africa and Ghana, LPG use in Senegal, and improved charcoal use in Kenya are reviewed in detail. Key factors contributing to success of policies are discussed.

This guidebook is intended to serve as a resource for countries in Africa as they consider options to develop bioenergy production capacity. Some level of bioenergy production capacity exists in Africa, though not on a large scale. Possibilities for the production of bioenergy are manifest in the short term through the use of feedstocks such as Jatropha, sugar cane, and sweet sorghum, and in the long term through the use of agricultural, municipal, and industrial waste.

This database provides energy information for countries throughout the world, including Africa; the Baltic States, Central Europe, and Eastern Europe; Latin America and the Caribbean; the Middle East; Russia and FSU; South Asia; South East Asia; and the Pacific Region. For each country, the database provides information on energy sources, reliance, electrification expansion, capacity concerns, renewable energy, energy efficiency, ownership, competition, framework, national energy priorities, the role of government, and regulation.

This database provides global information on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and climate change, including country energy profiles, a list of key global stakeholders, policy and regulatory overviews, an energy and climate change glossary, a clean energy Web search, geobrowsing features, and a clean energy blog.

This web-based database provides detailed project output documents from Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) projects. The database contains output documents from specific types of energy access, energy efficiency, and renewable energy programmes. These documents can be searched based for certain technologies or particular countries. Output documents are in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, and Portuguese. REEEP projects aim to improve access to clean and reliable energy in developing countries.