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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.
SEI brief / This brief summarizes the 2024 solar and wind power policy landscape in Mongolia.
29 October 2024 / About Finance and Renewables
Past event / The JustRE Alliance is launching a book compiling insights for practitioners working on energy transition and renewables around the world.
08 October 2024 / About Climate policy, Energy access, Fossil fuels, Public policy and Renewables
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.
2 September 2024 / About Energy access and Renewables
Feature / Cambridge MBA students build diverging business cases for basic service provision in sub-Saharan Africa.
13 June 2024 / About Energy access, Finance, Innovation, Public policy and Supply Chains
Feature / A recent SEI workshop explored ways to boost private investment in Africa's energy sector through collaborative dialogue.
21 December 2023 / About Energy access, Finance, Public policy and Renewables
Feature / SEI and partners brought together key stakeholders to find measures to address the challenges of financing renewable energy projects in East Africa.
25 September 2024 / About Energy access, Finance, Planning and modelling, Public policy and Renewables
Feature / The episode presents a nuanced discussion on the role of commercial banks funding hydropower in the Mekong Region.
11 September 2024 / About Finance
Journal article / With support, agrivoltaic technology could benefit East African agricultural systems and address the region's interrelated climate, energy and food challenges.
8 August 2024 / About Adaptation, Energy access, Food and agriculture and Renewables
Feature / SEI’s Eileen Torres-Morales participated in an excursion through Swedish forests as part of the IUFRO Congress 2024.
4 July 2024 / About Bioeconomy, Ecosystems, Forests and Renewables
Past event / How can we accelerate sustainable energy investments, enhance international cooperation and scale up progress towards energy global goals?
09 July 2024 / About Energy access
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.
24 April 2024 / About Energy access, Participation and Renewables
Feature / Morocco’s 2050 net-zero strategy, supported by SEI, aims to boost GDP, create jobs, and achieve significant environmental and economic benefits.
28 May 2024 / About Climate policy, Mitigation, Planning and modelling, Renewables and Sustainable Development Goals
Feature / Jason Veysey explains how SEI and Morocco created the country's ambitious, long-term, low-emissions development plan, highlighting lessons for other countries.
28 May 2024 / About Fossil fuels
Feature / Renewable energy finance in Africa faces an uphill battle. With patience and more knowledge sharing, recent encouraging results can continue.
31 May 2024 / About Finance and Renewables
SEI report / This report focuses on hydropower generated in the Norrbotten region of Sweden, from a governance, efficiency and environmental perspective.
20 February 2024 / About Planning and modelling, Renewables and Water resources
Feature / A recent SEI webinar provided a deep dive into the future of ocean-based renewable energy.
30 January 2024 / About Climate policy, Ecosystems, Innovation, Planning and modelling and Renewables
Feature / SEI was invited to share research insights with the International Development Association and Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
19 April 2024 / About Finance, Innovation, Participation, Public policy and Renewables
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.
4 January 2024 / About Energy access and Renewables
SEI report / This report examines the use of risk mitigation and transfer (RMT) instruments in private utility-scale renewable energy investments.
1 September 2023 / About Finance and Renewables
SEI report / This report explores the role of risk mitigation and transfer (RMT) instruments for enabling renewable energy investments in SADC countries.
28 June 2023 / About Finance and Renewables
SEI brief / This brief examines marine multi-use projects to evaluate current applications and understand potential opportunities and barriers for future projects.
21 December 2023 / About Innovation and Renewables
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.
22 December 2023 / About Fossil fuels and Renewables
Feature / A recent SEI workshop in Ghana revealed insights into overcoming investment barriers in African renewable energy.
22 November 2023 / About Finance, Public policy and Renewables
Perspective / The international community must pay serious attention and spend political capital on the mechanisms through which finance translates into actual projects.
26 June 2023 / About Finance and Renewables
Media coverage / SEI researchers write about the urgent need of financing projects, particularly in developing countries, in an op-ed published in Context.
4 July 2023 / About Climate policy, Finance, Public policy and Renewables
Feature / Learn more about SEI's efforts and research regarding the social acceptance of wind energy projects in La Guajira, Colombia.
2 October 2023 / About Fossil fuels, Public policy and Renewables
Feature / This story conveys SEI's fieldwork in La Guajira exploring the social acceptance of wind energy among Indigenous Wayuu communities and key challenges.
13 July 2023 / About Energy access, Public policy and Renewables
Media coverage / SEI Research Associate José Vega talks to Bloomberg on challenges in wind energy development in La Guajira, Colombia.
9 November 2023 / About Energy access, Public policy and Renewables
Media coverage / SEI's Anderson Kehbila speaks about Kenya's power sector and the country's efforts in reducing carbon emissions.
23 October 2023 / About Energy access, Fossil fuels, Household energy, Renewables and Short lived climate pollutants
Feature / SEI and the the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding formalizing a working collaboration on energy issues.
26 May 2023 / About Energy access, Finance, Geopolitics, Innovation, Participation, Planning and modelling, Public policy and Renewables
SEI brief / This brief provides a snapshot of the renewables landscape for wind and solar in Colombia as of 2022.
9 March 2023 / About Renewables
Miquel Muñoz Cabré, Senior Scientist, US Centre: [email protected]
José Vega Araújo, Research Associate, Latin America Centre: [email protected]
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