Poor People's Energy Outlook 2016: National Energy Access Planning from the Bottom Up

The authors of this report examine energy access planning from the perspective of the energy poor in Bangladesh, Kenya and Togo. They find that bottom-up national energy planning is feasible and that it is much more likely to deliver good results than are traditional top-down approaches to energy planning. The authors show that decentralized energy options are more cost-effective for rural energy delivery and are faster to deliver.