bioenergy Archives

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Off-grid solutions for energy and WASH services

Media coverage / SEI's Olle Olsson speaks on the transformation of electrification to development of off-grid innovation in the WASH sector on the "Inside Ideas" podcast.

11 June 2021 / About Business, Energy access, Finance, Fossil fuels, Innovation and Renewables

The politics of bioeconomy and sustainability: lessons from biofuel governance, policies and production strategies in the emerging world

Other publication / This book explores the often overlooked political aspects of bioeconomy promotion and sustainability politics in Global South democracies.

18 May 2021 / About Bioeconomy, Climate policy, Food and agriculture, Geopolitics, Land use, Public policy and Renewables

Dung beetle rolling its food at Kruger National Park, Lesotho

Can poop power the planet?

Feature / Poop is a sustainable alternative source of energy that could help reduce emissions that lead to climate change.

15 April 2021 / About Adaptation, Bioeconomy, Cities, Climate policy, Energy access, Fossil fuels, Household energy and Sanitation

Forest resources are at the heart of the EU’s bioeconomy strategy. How can they be used sustainably?

Perspective / In its push for climate-neutrality, the EU bets high on the bioeconomy. Catch up with the latest debates on the issue.

23 March 2021 / About Bioeconomy, Climate policy, Forests, Land use, Public policy and Renewables

Floating solar panels installed on water supply of neighbouring greenhouses, elevated view, Netherlands. Image: Mischa Keijser / Getty

Defections and death spirals

Perspective / There is great potential for synergies to emerge when gridless technologies for energy and WASH are combined in off-grid settings.

22 March 2021 / About Business, Cities, Disaster risk, Household energy, Innovation, Sanitation, Transport and Water resources

Solar panels and wind turbine near Ijssel river, The Netherlands. Image: Mischa Keijser / Getty

The bigger the better?

Perspective / This piece explores the influence of scale economies on developments in the global electricity sector.

22 March 2021 / About Bioeconomy, Business, Energy access, Innovation, Renewables and Transport

An impossible tangle of things we can’t understand?

Perspective / A look at the development of grid-based technologies in modern society.

22 March 2021 / About Business, Cities, Ecosystems, Energy access, Finance, Household energy, Innovation and Transport

Rising to the challenge: Samburu woman becomes clean energy champion

Feature / It is not every day that you encounter a convergence of the traditional and the modern in deep rural Kenya, especially in the nomadic north.

8 March 2021 / About Energy access, Household energy, Mitigation, Participation and Sustainable Development Goals

What do we mean when we talk about International Energy Law?

Other publication / This chapter offers some conceptual clarity on international energy law.

14 January 2021 / About Energy access and Household energy