The primary goal of a sound rural energy policy is to promote measures that will enhance the quality of life of people in rural areas by improving their access to modern energy services. The desired approach...
This note is organized into three sections: (a) a context and background section, summarizing the rationale for off-grid electrification and its complementarity with grid-extension investment; (b) a discussion...
Private sector concessions for renewables. FREM - A model for evaluating fiscal regime of upstream hydrocarbon contracts.
The impacts of reduced oil prices on the economic viability of selected technologies which utilize solar, wind and biomass energy sources are examined. The technologies include dendrothermal power plants...
The term dendrothermal power is often used to describe the process of generating electricity from wood that has been grown on managed short-term rotation plantations. The scope of this study is directed...