Articles by Aileen Nowlan
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Monday
October 12
2009New Report: Clean, Safe Energy for the Base of the Pyramid
For those who haven’t lived in the darkness that 1.6 billion people without electricity face at night, it is perhaps surprising that energy be ranked among other pressing concerns such as health, or education, or housing. For the poorest people of the world, access to clean and safe energy is an entry into a new life.
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Tuesday
May 19
2009Reliable Access to Energy in Slums: There’s Hope
For the past months I’ve been researching market-based solutions for access to energy for low-income communities. I’ve come across everything from efficient cookstoves to rural cooperatives that have the potential to replicate and serve billions of people. Most exciting for me are the models that connect slum residents to power and gas grids...
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Wednesday
March 4
2009Guest Post: Clean Development Mechanisms for the Base of the Pyramid?
You?ve probably read many stories of solar, biogas, and wind enterprises bringing clean energy with associated health, dignity and other benefits to the BoP. Underlying this movement is a seemingly simple framework known as the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). It has the power to enable clean energy enterprises, but it?s under siege.
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