solar power Archives

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

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

New SEI Initiative explores opportunities for gridless solutions

SEI brief / The Initiative analyses on-the-ground deployment experiences and aims to address barriers faced by off-grid technologies.

9 December 2020 / About Business, Cities, Energy access, Household energy, Innovation and Sanitation

Causal pathways in the political economy of adaptation projects: Experience from mapping the solar electricity system in Turkana, Kenya

SEI working paper / This paper seeks to analyse the political economy of adaptation projects, using the solar electricity system in Turkana, Kenya as an example.

18 November 2020 / About Adaptation, Energy access, Participation, Public policy and Renewables

Local government wind and solar energy project handbook

Project / The handbook is intended for wind and solar project developers and local governments to understand and facilitate the process.

2020 - 2021 / About Renewables

Rohingya Refugees Mark Two Years Since The Crisis

SEI Initiative on Gridless Solutions

Initiative / The Gridless Solutions Initiative explores alternative technologies for the delivery of critical services like energy, sanitation and freshwater.

2020 - 2025 / About Energy access, Innovation, Renewables and Sanitation

Kenya harnesses the sun

Media coverage / SEI's Mbeo Ogeya speaks about solar power, water and energy access in Kenya.

27 January 2019 / About Energy access, Water resources and Water-energy-food nexus

Solar-pumped water slakes rural Kenya’s thirst for development

Media coverage / Thomson Reuters describes electrification in Kenya, where some counties are tapping solar energy to pump water to villages from nearby rivers.

4 January 2019 / About Energy access, Food and agriculture and Water-energy-food nexus