Design Area 2: Energy
Visit the links below for help locating information about energy.
- UN Sustainable Development Goal: Access to Reliable, Sustainable EnergyThe United Nations SDGs provide targets to work towards. This page collects information and statistics about global progress towards the goal.
- Off-grid guideBest practice guide to procurement and maintenance of remote off-grid solar power systems.
- Centre for Appropriate Technology - Bushlight archiveCase studies and information on CfAT’s renewable energy program (2002-2013), during which over 130 renewable energy systems were installed.
- Engineering for change - EnergyE4C is a dynamic and growing community of engineers, technologists, social scientists, NGOs, local governments and community advocates whose mission is to improve quality of life in communities around the world by facilitating the development of affordable, locally appropriate and sustainable solutions to the most pressing humanitarian challenges.
- Engineering for change - Solutions library - EnergyThe E4C Solutions library represents a collection of solutions that have been implemented by various organizations. Includes examples of previous EWB Projects.
- Environmental and Energy Study Institute - Fact sheet: energy storage (2019)Overview of energy storage technologies. Note that these will not all be appropriate for the requirements of remote communities.
Ebook for more information
Sustainable development in energy systems by ISBN: 9783319548081Publication Date: 2017This book provides a broad and holistic perspective on various aspects of renewable energy sources and grid integration. It highlights the integration of renewable and alternative systems into existing infrastructures, and explores the synchronization of environmental and development needs with other social challenges.
The Governance of Small-Scale Renewable Energy in Developing Asia by ISBN: 9781409441144Publication Date: 2012-12-14This book showcases how small-scale renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and wind turbines are helping Asia respond to a daunting set of energy governance challenges. Using extensive original research this book offers a compendium of the most interesting renewable energy case studies over the last ten years from one of the most diverse regions in the world.
