Sentences with phrase «energy access solutions»

Experiential Learning GRID offers a classroom in the field that teaches international participants about sustainable development and energy access solutions.
Finance needs to flow faster to support gender - responsive and socially inclusive energy access solutions along the entire value chain.
Financial policy and regulatory barriers can hold back the ability of enterprises to deliver clean energy access solutions.
Using our Scaling Up Impact framework to understand how to have the right skills in the right place for energy access solutions in India
Tell the story and showcase investments in gender responsive and socially inclusive sustainable energy access solutions.

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Pitch: «Orora Global is a for - profit social enterprise with a simple mission to end energy poverty: to provide access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy solutions to rural households and urban slums in developing countries.
Sunfarmer, which supplies solar energy services to rural communities lacking access to reliable and affordable electricity by providing technology and innovative financing solutions.
A new partnership between the Province of Ontario and MaRS Discovery District aims to give Ontarians direct access to energy data, helping consumers manage energy use and providing opportunities for Ontario companies to capitalize on the growing market for energy solutions.
Not having access to energy markets is costing Canada billions of dollars and the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline system between Edmonton, and Burnaby, B.C. (on tidewater), is a critical solution to this problem, he said.
'' Not having access to energy markets is costing Canada billions of dollars and the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline system between Edmonton, and Burnaby, B.C., is a critical solution to this problem,» he said.
To become a leading energy solutions provider, First Solar needed access to the energy that powers markets: capital.
Unreasonable Capital will invest in industries where impact and profitability are maximized — currently, there is tremendous opportunity in (i) scalable clean - energy solutions, (ii) technologies designed to promote financial inclusion and access, and (iii) innovative mobile solutions focused on agriculture, and (iv) companies that are disrupting consumer supply chains between emerging markets and developed markets.
Fortunately, the highly skilled workers at two northeastern power companies PECO energy and PP&L have regular access to athletic trainers to help keep them performing at a high levels because of the health care services provided by Mrs. Kelly Unruh and her colleagues at CIP Solutions.
By expanding access to lands for safe and responsible energy production, promoting infrastructure developments, and pursuing market - based solutions to reduce demand, we can increase energy security and sustainability while also creating jobs and spurring economic growth.
Ari Patrinos, associate director of science for biological and environmental research at the U.S. Department of Energy, and Daniel Drell, also with the DOE's office of biological and environmental research, suggest that Jones employ some creative solutions, including «assistance with additional funding sources, perhaps an additional student or postdoc to work in Montgomery's lab (but funded by Jones), an active scientific collaboration, or access to other technologies or resources that Montgomery, on his own, could not command.»
He has provided funding for a new energy access program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, where Rogers has also taught graduate - level courses on business models for lighting poor parts of the world.
Advanced hardware and software allow the epaper screen to withstand the harsh elements and use up as little power as possible, creating an energy - sustainable solution that does not require access to the electrical grid.
The main conversation around Pope Francis's remarkable encyclical letter is appropriately on the core messages — that human - driven climate change is dangerous; access to energy matters; that consumptive capitalism is a problem, not a solution.
Of course they are focusing on near term solutions such as renewable energy, cool materials, life cycle of electronics, etc., but we also are encouraging them to think about how technological solutions may not only have cascading implications on the environment, but how a new innovation may further disadvantage poor people or others with limited access.
It's an acknowledgement that the completely un-flat nature of the world, when measured through energy access and wealth, guarantees no top - down solution can work.
In turn, this reduces the investment cost in the supply of electricity required to deliver universal energy access, making off - grid renewable solutions more affordable to households.
Microgrid benefits encompass better resiliency, easier access to energy through a less capital - intensive, modular, scalable solution that is quicker to implement, more choice around when and how to interact with the grid and energy cost optimization.
About SkyPower Home www.skypower-home.com SkyPower Home is an exclusive worldwide master licensee of SkyPower, the largest and one of the most successful developers and owners of utility - scale solar energy projects in the world, for manufacturing and distributing portable solar systems and solar - powered portable energy solutions for consumer and commercial use, enabling communities globally with limited access to electricity to harness the abundant power of the sun.
There's been talk for years of an Amazon, Apple or Google emerging in the American energy industry — a company that offers consumers a seamless solution for their energy needs, combined with choice, control and access to their own energy - generating potential.
The CEM fosters ambitious, scaled - up collaborations and acts as a platform and incubator for exchanging good practices and innovative solutions to advance a broad range of clean energy activities that include improving energy efficiency, enhancing clean energy supply, supporting energy system transformation, and expanding clean energy access.
To achieve this, we need transformative partnerships between the public and private sector to improve energy access planning and increase investment in the preparation and implementation of energy access projects, including innovative access solutions such as off - grid.»
The Clean Energy Solutions Center is dedicated to providing government officials, policymakers, and their advisors a centralized resource to access good practice information that supports development and implementation of clean energy policies and proEnergy Solutions Center is dedicated to providing government officials, policymakers, and their advisors a centralized resource to access good practice information that supports development and implementation of clean energy policies and proenergy policies and programs.
[16] For example, see Centre for Climate and Energy Solutions, «Options and Considerations for a Federal Carbon Tax,» February 28, 2013, http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/options-considerations-federal-carbon-tax.pdf (accessed September 5, 2014).
The banks have failed to align their energy financing practices with the International Energy Agency's conclusion that in order to achieve universal energy access, 64 percent of future energy financing should be directed toward distributed energy soluenergy financing practices with the International Energy Agency's conclusion that in order to achieve universal energy access, 64 percent of future energy financing should be directed toward distributed energy soluEnergy Agency's conclusion that in order to achieve universal energy access, 64 percent of future energy financing should be directed toward distributed energy soluenergy access, 64 percent of future energy financing should be directed toward distributed energy soluenergy financing should be directed toward distributed energy soluenergy solutions.
These solutions deliver multiple benefits, from access to energy, public health improvements, reduced environmental impacts to driving a transition to low - carbon, greener growth.
The banks are neither putting significant proportions of their energy portfolios towards energy access for the poor, nor are they investing substantially in distributed clean energy solutions, despite the important role these technologies can play in delivering energy access.
Studies have shown that decentralised solutions that provide consumers with basic energy access do not provide larger socio - economic benefits, and are not a substitute for grid - connected electricity, as IndiaSpend reported on May 18, 2017.
Off - grid solar solutions, meanwhile, are emerging as one of the key drivers of rural energy access.
Advancements in technologies, business models and new pools of finance mean countries can access decentralized renewable energy solutions that are cleaner and more affordable than ever before.
This report was prepared for the Department for International Development in support of preparations for the Energy Africa access campaign, which aims to accelerate access to electricity in sub-Saharan Africa through solar household solutions.
Civil society, governments and business communities must accept that if we do not change the way we live on this planet and do something to reduce drastically the carbon footprint and increase dramatically access to renewable energy now through tougher regulations and an overhaul of the fossil fuel industry (stop subsidizing the polluters and begin funding the human solutions to climate change), the planet will continue to change in devastating ways.
CTI finds that focusing on off - grid and mini-grid renewables — as solar costs fall and battery technology improves — are the most cost - effective solutions in many emerging economies to energy access.
Volkswagen Group of America is SunPower's first automotive partner whose customers will receive premier access to an energy storage solution from SunPower for a limited time once it becomes commercially available, expected to be in early 2015.
Volkswagen of America also selected SunPower as VW's official solar energy partner; Bosch Automotive Service Solutions as its preferred home - charging and installation services provider; and ChargePoint to provide charging stations to the VW dealer network and to provide US e-Golf owners access to consumers to more than 18,000 charging stations nationwide.
Just days after the historic blackout reminded us that centralized coal is the problem, not the solution to India's energy woes, a new era of entrepreneurs marked the beginning of a truly revolutionary effort to deliver energy access.
«This project [and a related March 10 conference] will demonstrate how access to clean energy, workforce development and public policy solutions can bring about authentic equity in the quickly developing solar arena.»
Help direct capital to gender - responsive and socially inclusive energy businesses to support faster delivery of sustainable access solutions.
While the present situation is excruciating from an energy access standpoint, solutions are in process.
In our work on energy access, development impact bonds, debt relief, and many other topics, Africa problems and solutions have always been a focus.
Business - as - usual solutions are not working to deliver energy access to women and the most vulnerable and hardest - to - reach people, particularly those living in urban slums and rural parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia Pacific.
Mike Jacobs, «U.S. States Hatch Solution to Transmission «Chicken - Egg» Dilemma,» Renewable Energy Access, 7 May 2007.
«There are no easy solutions to the world's energy problems, particularly the problem of access to and use of fossil fuels,» says Marsh, specialist at Virginia Tech, «But one of the simplest and most effective ways to address the issue is individual conservation.»
It includes Indigenous leaders who have fought against major fossil fuel projects like the Dakota Access Pipeline and are building their own renewable energy solutions on tribal lands.
«Now in our tenth year, Bullfrog continues to innovate in the energy landscape, finding new ways to give Canadians access to smarter, greener energy solutions,» said Ron Seftel, Chief Executive Officer, Bullfrog Power.
«While we wouldn't comment on alliances with particular organizations, Peabody has a track record of advancing responsible energy and environmental policies, and we support organizations that advocate sustainable mining, energy access and clean coal solutions, in line with our company's leadership in these areas,» Vic Svec, Peabody's senior vice-president for global investor and corporate relations, wrote in an email.
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