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A clean, affordable, reliable supply of energy for basic needs is widely seen as a necessary for lifting people out of poverty and improving well-being. SEI examines how energy needs for human and economic development can be met in a way that is compatible with long-term sustainable development.

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Rohingya Refugees Mark Two Years Since The Crisis

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Deployment of biobased value chains

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A satellite image of the earth.

An impossible tangle of things we can’t understand?

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

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

The bigger the better?

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

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Powering Africa: unlocking opportunities for energy development in Southern Africa

SEI reports
Energy
Water
25 May 2018
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Southern Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa

Drone aerial view of solar thermal power plant station in the desert.

Connecting the sustainable development goals by their energy inter-linkages

SEI Initiative on Governing Bioeconomy Pathways

Jatropha is a plant that provides seed oil and is currently extracted from Jatropha oil to replace renewable diesel fuel.

Mechanisms and indicators for assessing the impact of biofuel feedstock production on ecosystem services

Journal articles
Energy
Water
13 February 2018

Rooftop solar plant in India

Scaling up rooftop solar power in India: The potential of solar municipal bonds

Behavioural drivers tell us why the use of clean cookstoves is so low

Connecting people – Kalenge village waits for electrification

Feature
Energy
17 October 2017
Tanzania

Producing clean cookstoves in Kenya. World Bank/Peter Kapuscinski via Flickr

A political economy perspective on technology innovation in the Kenyan clean cookstove sector

Solar energy

Gender equality in renewable energy in the Lower Mekong: assessment and opportunities – USAID clean power Asia

Hand with pink colour

Gender mainstreaming strategy – USAID Clean Power Asia

Bags of wood pellets

The European wood pellet market for small-scale heating

An electricity pylon under construction in northern Tanzania.

Building sustainable energy infrastructure in Africa is a careful balancing act

Feature
Energy
Climate
Governance
19 January 2017
Africa

Construction workers beneath a large lattice-like structure of metal and wires.

Catalysing investment in sustainable energy infrastructure in Africa: overcoming financial and non-financial constraints

Strategies for sustainable bioenergy development in Indonesia

Electricity pylon

Renewable energy mini-grids: an alternative approach to energy access in southern Africa