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NexThought Monday – The Last 50 Miles : How Village Level Entrepreneurs are building clean energy networks
Village Level Entrepreneurs is a growing profession across rural India. Most are business owners who hawk a wide variety of products and services. The scope of VLE networks extend well beyond the realm of basic household products. Harnessing VLE network to increase clean energy access across rural belts is a key to making energy access possible.
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- Energy
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Self-Healing Hydrogen Leaf Could Power the World
There are plenty of scientists out there trying to solve our impending energy crisis. Many of their creations never leave the lab. Here's one that is on its way to commercialization — and just fixed one of its biggest problems.
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- Energy
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- renewable energy
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Crowdfunding Power: Solving Climate Change and Other Community Needs
Crowdfunding could be an incredibly powerful way to deliver a decentralised energy system.
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- Energy
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- renewable energy
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Kenyan pay-as-you-go solar company wins global green energy award
Azuri Technologies – a company that gives Kenyan households pay-as-you-go access to solar power, is the winner of the 2013 Ashden Award, the world’s leading green energy prize.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy
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Poverty alleviation: Villagers thrive by using alternative energy
Farmers in Ahmadwala, a village some 40 kilometres to the west of Lahore, are no longer worried about power outages affecting their livelihoods.
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- Agriculture, Energy
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- South Asia
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Renewable energy marks Kerry visit to India
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry wrapped up on Tuesday his first visit to India with the highlight of a $100 million loan guarantee program by USAID on private sector financing for clean energy under the Development Credit Authority.
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- South Asia
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- renewable energy
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Off-Grid Electrification: A key to Myanmar’s promising growth
Throughout his promotion of the United Nation’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said several times that “energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, social equity and environmental sustainability.”
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- Energy, Environment
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- renewable energy, solar
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South Africa ‘needs coherent energy policy’
Sout Africa must create a coherent energy policy or it will continue to struggle to rely on power utility Eskom and millions of South Africans will remain in energy poverty, World Energy Council head Christoph Frei said on Tuesday.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy