Around 2.4 billion people use biomass fuels - wood, charcoal and animal dung - for their domestic energy needs. These are typically burned in inefficient stoves or on open fires, with serious consequences for health and the environment. SEI identifies and designs actions to help households transition to cleaner technologies and energy sources.
View all on Household energyThis project will investigate how air pollutants within homes in the city of Bradford, UK, can adversely affect the health of people living in them.
Researchers measure the effectiveness of a grass-roots campaign in Western Kenya to increase cooking with rock-beds for open fires and simple woodstoves.
A look at the development of grid-based technologies in modern society.
This SEI report outlines issues that stakeholders in water, sanitation and energy services believe are holding back uptake of promising gridless technologies.
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.