Race Matters when Achieving Universal Energy Access
A workshop was held in Kampala, Uganda to announce a new fund for energy access entrepreneurs. Approximately 50 excited...
Engineering for Change
Interest: Energy
When the sun goes down, the day ends. No work after dark, no studying. That’s the reality for one quarter of the world’s population that lives without electricity. Inventive design and the falling cost of solar power is lighting up homes that the traditional energy grid has left dark. Power solutions that can scale are filling in the grid gaps with solar, hydro, wind and biogas. With alternative energy solutions, the world is lighting up.
Interest: Energy
We Cannot Design Appropriate Energy Technology Well Without ...
The value of user-centered design is indisputable. If we want to design products and services that work for the end-users, we have to take their feedback on board and...
Biological Waste to Biogas: A Solution to Self-Sustainable E...
“Independence begins at the bottom. A society must be built in which every village has to be self-sustained and capable of managing its own affairs.” -Mahatma Gandhi The father of...
Confirming the Value of a Distribution Network, Essmart Rais...
The marketing and distribution of a product may matter even more than its design. Diana Jue Rajasingh, a veteran of product distribution in emerging markets, said as much in...
How to Design Improved Cookstoves with Users in Mind: A Usab...
A key problem with improved cookstoves is that they can go unused, or used in unintended ways. While many cookstoves are able to reduce harmful emissions and fuel consumption, their...
Field Notes: Inside a Technical Assessment of Improved Cooks...
The work of ensuring reliable, affordable and sustainable energy access has taken center stage in the international development sector. This new focus on energy has two rationales: it increases...
El Acceso a Estufas Mejoradas en Panamá Necesita de Nuevas ...
Read this article in English A nivel internacional, 2.7 billones personas aún dependen de fuentes de biomasa para cocinar sus alimentos. En Centro y Sudamérica 57 millones de personas...
Access to Improved Cookstoves in Panama Will Require New Research in Indigenous Communities
Lea esto en español Around the world 2.7 billion people still depend on biomass as a cooking fuel. In...
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A New Microwave Pyrolysis System Targets China’s Mountains of Toxic Sludge
China has been burying itself under a mountain of toxic sludge, but one startup may have a technological solution....
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Biomining the Elements of the Future
Biomining is the kind of technique promised by science fiction: a vast tank filled with microorganisms that leach metal...
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Made in Guatemala: Clean Water and Nutrition Technology in Central America
Guatemala is a Central American country with great opportunities to innovate. Despite immense natural resources such as rivers, lakes,...
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Empowering the powerless: Let’s end energy poverty
“Power to the people,” the activists chanted in the 1960s. The revolutionaries of yesteryear never dreamed of the scientific...
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From Electrification to Empowerment: Building a Utility-Grade Micro-Utility from the Bottom Up
On the wall of the Sigora Haiti field operations center in Mole Saint Nicolas, Haiti, the company’s 50+ local...
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Can Community-Scale Solar Become the Model T of Clean Energy?
Every single solar project, big or small, gets assembled one at a time on a roof or in a...
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What Is Impeding the Growth of Improved Cookstove Companies? [A Research Brief]
Billions of people around the globe use solid biomass to fuel their daily cooking needs. Most traditional cooking practices,...
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The Solution Is in Biology: A Startup Takes Biogas to the Kitchen
What if I tell you that, each time you pay for power at your home or for the gas...
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The Work Underway Now to Solve Refugee Crises Through Climate Change Action
The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman draws a line that he sees from a changing climate to drought...
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