Tag: solar
![Collecting firewood near the Nyarugusu refugee camp in western Tanzania](https://unepccc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/field-work-tanzania-2017-2.jpg)
Kick-starting the market for e-cooking for displaced people and host communities
New financing mechanism to address energy poverty, health, deforestation and security issues for some of the world’s most vulnerable groups
January 23rd, 2024
![SOLCO event Africa Climate Week](https://unepccc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/whatsapp-image-2023-09-04-at-141126.jpeg)
Solar powering displaced populations
Electric cooking powered by solar PV presented at Africa Climate Week event focusing on the needs of displaced people
September 8th, 2023
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A new perspective on solar power in Africa
A new special issue journal co-edited by UNEP DTU Partnership looks at the political and socio-cultural dimensions of solar power technology across the continent.
October 12th, 2018
New Publication on Market based Rural Electrification released
UNEP DTU Partnership has released a new publication ‘The emerging market for pico-scale solar PV systems in Sub-Saharan Africa’, that focuses on the emergence of market based rural electrification in this region. The traditional model of rural electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) mainly involves donor and government-supported programs. Recently, however, a rapid and significant increase has occurred in the sale […]
November 30th, 2016