SEI’s research and engagement seek to accelerate renewable energy adoption in a just and equitable manner that maximizes social, environmental and development benefits while mitigating negative impacts.
SEI leverages our multidisciplinary expertise to conduct research, establish partnerships with local to international stakeholders, provide technical assistance, collaboratively strengthen capacities, and develop demonstration and proof-of-concept activities.
Our contributions span multiple domains. We analyse renewable energy policies and inform their design. We contribute to finance mobilization. We seek to improve livelihoods. We investigate renewable energy trade. We develop strategies for off-grid renewables, energy access, and household shifting from traditional biomass to advanced biofuels.
SEI delves into the on-the-ground realities that affect whether lasting renewable energy growth is possible. Explore SEI’s work on these issues and its recommendations on how to foster a just transition away from fossil fuels and toward sustainable energy for all.
Perspective / Anajia Guajira allows community members of La Guajira, Colombia, to give direct feedback on planned wind energy projects in their neighborhoods.
Other publication / The ASEAN Renewable Energy Long-Term Roadmap is a blueprint that will accelerate the region's sustainable energy transition.
Past event / This virtual Q&A session 3 June will detail the aims of a new group seeking renewable energy and electrical grid solutions that benefit people and nature.
Media coverage / SEI experts illuminate the successes of renewable energy development in sub-Saharan Africa with a message: keep going.
SEI brief / Get insights on developing clean-energy-sector interventions in sub-Saharan Africa and low- and lower-middle income countries.
Other publication / SEI experts and tools inform this ASEAN Centre for Energy roadmap plotting the route to net zero emissions in Lao PDR.
Feature / SEI joins REN21 to contribute its renewable energy expertise to the global coalition of energy transition stakeholders.
SEI report / This report discusses the key barriers and enablers in the design and implementation of FIT and REA policies in Kenya.
SEI report / This report explores the financial landscape of renewable energy projects in West and Central Africa, with recommendations on how to maximize success.
SEI brief / This five-step framework can help island states assess their energy systems and shift to decentralized, renewable and resilient ways to produce energy.
Perspective / By reducing cooking time and fuel collection burdens, energy-efficient wood-burning stoves and biogas have empowered women.
SEI brief / Энэхүү тоймд 2024 оны 6 дугаар сарын байдлаар Монгол Улс дахь нар, салхины сэргээгдэх эрчим хүчний бодлогын төлөв байдлыг харуулав.
SEI brief / This brief summarizes the 2024 solar and wind power policy landscape in Mongolia.
Past event / The JustRE Alliance is launching a book compiling insights for practitioners working on energy transition and renewables around the world.
Other publication / This book explores the complexities of making renewable energy transitions just and draws on real-world experiences from regions engaged in these efforts.
Feature / Cambridge MBA students build diverging business cases for basic service provision in sub-Saharan Africa.
Feature / A recent SEI workshop explored ways to boost private investment in Africa's energy sector through collaborative dialogue.
Feature / SEI and partners brought together key stakeholders to find measures to address the challenges of financing renewable energy projects in East Africa.
Journal article / With support, agrivoltaic technology could benefit East African agricultural systems and address the region's interrelated climate, energy and food challenges.
Feature / SEI’s Eileen Torres-Morales participated in an excursion through Swedish forests as part of the IUFRO Congress 2024.
Past event / How can we accelerate sustainable energy investments, enhance international cooperation and scale up progress towards energy global goals?
Journal article / An analysis of the concepts of Social License to Operate and Social Acceptance, from the extractive industry to its application in renewable energy.
Feature / Morocco’s 2050 net-zero strategy, supported by SEI, aims to boost GDP, create jobs, and achieve significant environmental and economic benefits.
Feature / Jason Veysey explains how SEI and Morocco created the country's ambitious, long-term, low-emissions development plan, highlighting lessons for other countries.
Feature / Renewable energy finance in Africa faces an uphill battle. With patience and more knowledge sharing, recent encouraging results can continue.
Feature / SEI was invited to share research insights with the International Development Association and Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
SEI report / This report focuses on hydropower generated in the Norrbotten region of Sweden, from a governance, efficiency and environmental perspective.
Past event / Learn more about new research on the potential of combining offshore wind and hydrogen power, with experts mapping out what should be the next steps.
Feature / A recent SEI webinar provided a deep dive into the future of ocean-based renewable energy.
SEI report / The authors identify enabling factors of social acceptance for wind energy projects and, more broadly, of a just energy transition in La Guajira.
SEI report / This report examines the use of risk mitigation and transfer (RMT) instruments in private utility-scale renewable energy investments.
SEI report / This report explores the role of risk mitigation and transfer (RMT) instruments for enabling renewable energy investments in SADC countries.
SEI brief / This brief examines marine multi-use projects to evaluate current applications and understand potential opportunities and barriers for future projects.
SEI working paper / Researchers review the power dynamics and distributional politics that shape resistance to phasing out coal and to opportunities for change in Colombia.
Feature / A recent SEI workshop in Ghana revealed insights into overcoming investment barriers in African renewable energy.
Perspective / The international community must pay serious attention and spend political capital on the mechanisms through which finance translates into actual projects.
Media coverage / SEI researchers write about the urgent need of financing projects, particularly in developing countries, in an op-ed published in Context.
Feature / Learn more about SEI's efforts and research regarding the social acceptance of wind energy projects in La Guajira, Colombia.
Feature / This story conveys SEI's fieldwork in La Guajira exploring the social acceptance of wind energy among Indigenous Wayuu communities and key challenges.
Media coverage / SEI Research Associate José Vega talks to Bloomberg on challenges in wind energy development in La Guajira, Colombia.
Feature / SEI and the the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding formalizing a working collaboration on energy issues.
SEI brief / This brief provides a snapshot of the renewables landscape for wind and solar in Colombia as of 2022.
Miquel Muñoz Cabré, Senior Scientist, US Centre: [email protected]
José Vega Araújo, Research Associate, Latin America Centre: [email protected]
