The reports informs on what ten million people from low-income groups have gained from access to modern energy services, particularly in least developed countries. The positive impacts of the EnDev programme has been in reducing poverty and improving productive use of energy, in better living and health conditions for women and children, in better learning in schools (light, electric power), in job creation and, last not least, in saving of more than 950 000 tons of firewood and nearly a one million tons of CO2 emissions per year.

Africa's renewable energy power potential is substantially larger than the current and projected power consumption of the continent. Local geothermal, solar thermal and bioenergy resources have an important role to play in covering future heat demand. Domestic biofuels and renewable energy-based electrification of urban public transport can contribute significantly to transport needs.

Carbon tetrachloride (CTC) is a solvent and cleaning agent used widely across many industry segments. Its high solvency power, low cost and the fact that it is non-flammable made it popular in many cleaning applications.

This presentation introduces the value of the integrated grid.

Generating electric power based on geothermal energy is attractive (i) because of the low CO2 emissions and (ii) because electricity can be produced constantly, independent of the availability of wind or sunlight. These characteristics make geothermal energy an important option for safe, cost-effective and climate friendly power production. The main caveats are that geothermal energy is not available everywhere and that it is uncertain whether the resource will actually be found at a given site.