Resources

This fact sheet provides an overview of the Policy Analysis Modeling System (PAMS), an easy-to-use software tool that helps decision-makers assess the costs and benefits of energy efficiency standards and labeling (EESL) programs and identify the most attractive targets for appliance efficiency levels.

• 07/22/2021

This fact sheet provides an overview of the International Database of Efficient Appliances (IDEA) tool, which enables EE4D to gather fragmented energy and performance data for appliances, electronics, and other equipment to evaluate the full impact of energy efficiency standards and labeling programs.

• 07/21/2021

Ethiopia has set an ambition to increase gross national income through growth in the manufacturing sector as part of the goal to become a middle-income country by 2025.

• 06/24/2021

This document aims to serve as a foundation for systematic introduction of energy management in the Ethiopian Manufacturing Sector.

• 06/24/2021

The vision of the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) is for the country to achieve lower middle-income status by 2025 following a green economic development pathway.

• 06/24/2021

Although LAC countries continue to rely heavily on non-renewable energies, renewables have grown in the region and represent a significant share of the total energy supply. More than half of electricity generation comes from renewable sources, mainly hydropower, which is more than twice the global average.

• 06/23/2021

The pace of natural resource exploitation in LAC is alarming, unsustainable, and worsened by increased illegality in sectors such as forestry, mining, wildlife trafficking, and fishing. LAC countries play a crucial role in global natural resource markets.

• 06/23/2021

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) partnered with Environmental Incentives and Dalberg Advisors to conduct an analysis of key environmental and energy trends that will affect Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) from 2020 to 2030 in order to improve environmental and energy programming in LAC.

• 06/22/2021

Market-based mechanisms for environmental management and conservation are on the rise in LAC, with payments for ecosystem services (PES), tradable permits and quotas (P&Q), environmental taxes, and green bonds gaining momentum.

• 06/22/2021

LAC countries are increasingly feeling the urgency to take measures to adapt to, and not just mitigate, climate change.

• 06/22/2021

This report presents the results of an analysis of the current and future status of the national woodfuel energy market in Malawi.

• 06/10/2021

This document summarizes the achievements across USAID-supported energy programs in Southeast Asia from 2015-2021.

• 05/28/2021

Improving energy efficiency is one of the most cost-effective ways to address the challenges of energy security, high energy prices, air pollution, and climate change.

• 05/01/2021

Distributed energy resources (DER)—including smart transmission grids, energy storage and electric vehicle charging infrastructure—offer new opportunities for electricity cost savings, service reliability and quality improvements, as well as reduced pollution and greenhouse gas emissions

• 01/15/2021

USAID’s Energy Efficiency for Development program is a global initiative that provides technical resources and expert advice to USAID partner countries.

• 11/17/2020