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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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Governing bioeconomy pathways

Rohingya Refugees Mark Two Years Since The Crisis

Gridless solutions

Projects and tools

Group of tree trunks cut and stacked in the forest with sun rays

Deployment of biobased value chains

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Back to the future: Backcasting the energy transition in rural Kenya

If everyone in Kenya cooks with electricity in 2030, how did it happen? Our research team co-developed a transition pathway with members of a rural community.

Villager eating food cooked in an electric pressure cooker

Beyond fire: Backcasting a pathway to fully electric cooking in rural Kenya by 2030

A participatory exercise to introduce the concept of transitioning to electricity for cooking in a rural off-grid community

SEI reports
Energy
Air
30 June 2020
Kenya

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Strategies for sustainable bioenergy development in Indonesia

Electricity pylon

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

Charcoal for sale in the Kibera slum in Nairobi.

How Kenya can transform the charcoal sector and create new opportunities for low-carbon rural development

SEI briefs
Energy
Land
Economy
30 September 2016
Kenya

Energy for Tomorrow Conference Poster

Energy for Tomorrow: Paris, 3-4 November

Feature
Energy
Climate
Economy
12 September 2016
France

Cooking appliances

Using service design to understand cookstove uptake

Perspective
Energy
Economy
Gender
Health
2 September 2016
Zambia

Charcoal for sale on the side of a road in Kenya

Kenya blazes a trail to more sustainable charcoal – and better livelihoods

Perspective
Energy
Land
Governance
17 August 2016
Kenya

A group of people standing on an open roof, inspecting stoves

What makes an ‘improved’ stove worth using? Insights from India

Perspective
Energy
Air
Health
Gender
15 August 2016
India

Cookstove

Can health campaigns spur adoption of clean cookstoves?

Logs

Spatiotemporal modeling of fuelwood environmental impacts: Towards improved accounting for non-renewable biomass

Women carrying firewood

Women are central to Africa’s energy transformation

Perspective
Energy
Gender
8 March 2016

A small business in Kuria East sub-county uses solar power to provide customers with hair cutting, phone charging and torch charging services. All photos by Oliver Johnson.

Can county-level energy planning give the people a stronger voice? Lessons from Kenya

Feature
Energy
Governance
18 February 2016
Kenya

A shed out in the country side with a solar panel in front of it

County energy planning in Kenya: local participation and local solutions in Migori County

A women cooking on small stove on floor

Behavioural drivers for uptake of modern cookstoves, Kiambu County, Kenya

Steel

Navigating the transition to sustainable bioenergy in Sweden and Brazil: Lessons learned in a European and International context

Journal articles
Energy
16 January 2016
Sweden
EU
Brazil

Woman stirring in pot

Bringing clean, safe, affordable cooking energy to households across Africa: an agenda for action