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This report explores the concept of gate closure—the time at which market participants must submit their final bids and offers for electricity.

• 01/08/2020
• Jessica Katz, K.V.N. Pawan Kumar, Jaquelin Cochran, S.C. Saxena, S.K. Soonee, S.R. Narasimhan, K.V.S. Baba

The question of what role grid-scale battery storage plays in a power system has gained prominence because of the increasing need for power system flexibility coupled with the rapid decline in the cost of storage technologies, particularly lithium-ion batteries.

• 01/08/2020
• Thomas Bowen, Ilya Chernyakhovskiy, Paul Denholm

This guidebook can be used by policymakers, power sector investors, planners, system operators, and other energy-sector stakeholders to facilitate discussions and complete key steps of a power sector resilience planning process.

• 01/08/2020
• Sherry Stout, Nathan Lee, Sadie Cox, James Elsworth, Jennifer Leisch

The potential for energy efficiency to simultaneously address economic development, energy security, and environmental protection in countries around the world is well known.

• 01/08/2020
• Alexandra Aznar, Jeffrey Logan, Douglas Gagne, Emily Chen

This YouTube video playlist houses learning resources, webinars, and videos created through the support of the USAID-NREL Partnership.

• 01/08/2020

SA-LED works to support the implementation of South Africa’s climate change response policy through supporting low emissions development (LED) project development, capacity building, and promoting an enabling environment for LED.

• 11/29/2019

The Clean Energy Emission Reduction (CLEER) tool is a calculator that helps users to estimate and report greenhouse gas emissions reduced or avoided from clean energy activities.

• 11/29/2019

Khangezile Primary School was one of four schools chosen by Earthlife Africa, an environmental justice organization, to have renewable energy technology installed as part of the Sustainable Energy and Livelihoods project.

• 11/29/2019

As part of its support to mainstream low emissions development, the South Africa Low Emissions Development (SA-LED) Program supported Blue Karoo Trust, a fish farm specializing in breeding catfish as an alternative to pilchards to sell commercially.

• 11/29/2019

The USAID South Africa Low Emissions Development Program (SA-LED) supports the Government of South Africa to transition to a low-carbon economy by promoting green growth.

• 11/29/2019

This workbook provides a step-by-step guide to help clean energy incubators and accelerators develop gender-inclusive recruitment and selection processes.

• 11/26/2019

This infographic shows how clean energy incubators and accelerators can develop gender-inclusive recruitment and selection processes.

• 11/26/2019

This is a guide on how to measure and track the impact of interventions to improve gender representation in clean energy startup incubators and accelerators.

• 11/26/2019

The clean energy sector presents a wide range of entrepreneurial and business opportunities.

• 11/26/2019

Between 1980 and 2010, droughts, earthquakes, epidemics, floods, cyclones, and extreme temperatures caused more than $1 billion in economic damage in Madagascar.

• 11/25/2019