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Reliable, safe, and secure electricity is essential for economic and social development and a necessary input for many sectors of the economy.

• 01/09/2020
• Sadie Cox, Eliza Hotchkiss, Dan Bilello, Alison Holm, Jennifer Leisch

This report discusses of some of the key drivers and considerations that policymakers and decision-makers face when deciding if and how to regulate electricity tariffs for micro-grids.

• 01/09/2020
• Tim Reber, Sam Booth, Dylan Cutler, Xiangkun Li, James Salasovich

This guide is intended to support policymakers and planners, as well as technical experts, consultants, and academics in incorporating improved data and analysis into renewable energy decision-making.

• 01/09/2020
• USAID, NREL

Demand for electricity from small industry and businesses, which is defined as the productive use of energy, is a key success factor for micro-grids.

• 01/09/2020
• Samuel Booth, Xiangkun Li, Ian Baring-Gould, Diana Kollanyi, Abishek Bharadwaj, Peter Weston

The Government of Mexico has recognized the potential for clean distributed generation to meaningfully contribute to Mexico’s clean energy goals.

• 01/09/2020
• Owen Zinaman, Alexandra Aznar, James McCall

The Republic of the Philippines is home to abundant solar, wind, and other renewable energy resources.

• 01/09/2020
• Clayton Barrows, Jessica Katz, Jaquelin Cochran, Galen McLaurin, Mark Christian Marollano, Mary Grace Gabis, Noriel Christopher Reyes, Kenneth Jack Muñoz, Clarita De Jesus, Nielson Asedillo, Jake Binayug, Hanzel Cubangbang, Rommel Reyes, Jonathan

Micro-grids are expected to play a critical role in providing electricity access to the roughly 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa who currently lack electricity.

• 01/09/2020
• Peter Weston, Wakar Kalhoro, Eric Lockhart, Tim Reber, Samuel Booth

Forecasted to meet more than 70% of global electricity generation growth over the next five years, renewables are projected to have the fastest growth in the electricity sector, providing almost 30% of power demand in 2023.

• 01/09/2020
• Carishma Gokale-Welch, Andrea Watson

Power sector vulnerabilities—weaknesses within infrastructure, systems, or operations—are susceptible to natural, technological, and human-caused threats.

• 01/09/2020
• Eliza Hotchkiss, Sadie Cox

A balanced approach to power sector resilience includes both institutional and technical solutions.

• 01/09/2020
• Nathan Lee, Sherry Stout, Sadie Cox

Great strides have been made in electrification over the last two decades, however, an estimated 1.1 billion people—roughly 600 million of whom live in Sub-Saharan Africa—still lack access to modern electricity services.

• 01/09/2020
• Eric Lockhart, Samuel Booth, Ian Baring-Gould

USAID Bangladesh and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory partnered with the Government of Bangladesh to develop a national wind resource assessment.

• 01/09/2020
• Mark Jacobson, Caroline Draxl, Tony Jimenez, Barbara O'Neill, Taj Capozzola, Jared A. Lee, Francois Vandenberghe, Sue Ellen Haupt

Micro-grids are proliferating in East Africa as alternatives to grid extension in communities far from existing grid infrastructure.

• 01/09/2020
• Nathan Williams, Samuel Booth, Ian Baring-Gould

The costs of renewable energy-based electricity generation have fallen in recent years to levels that are increasingly competitive with traditional generation.

• 01/08/2020
• Nathan Lee, Francisco Flores-Espino, Ricardo Oliveira, Billy Roberts, Thomas Bowen, Jessica Katz

Micro-grids will be a critical element of extending modern electricity services to the roughly 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa who currently lack it, yet barriers remain to micro-grid deployment at scale.

• 01/08/2020
• Eric Lockhart, Xiangkun Li, Samuel Booth, James Salasovich, Dan Olis, James Elsworth, Lars Lisell