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Productive Consumption: How high-end technology enables market-driven service delivery for the BoP
Historically, expansion of basic service access has been hindered by the costs and slow speed of expanding “the grid.” Yet there is no longer any need to move at the pace of grid expansion; technology to offer basic services safely and affordably, without relying on grid electricity, is here today. Interestingly, this opportunity to reach the poorest has been created by the insatiable demand in richer countries for what is in our pockets, handbags and briefcases.
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Working at the ‘Coalface’ of Clean Energy: BCtA forum gathers renewal power players
The webinar was a collaborative effort between BCtA, the Business Innovation Facility (BIF) and the Innovations Against Poverty, and resulted in a rich and thought-provoking discussion, covering perennial issues ranging from marketing to the BoP to distribution challenges.
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Developing world may overtake West in green energy stakes
A ‘geographic shift’ in renewable investment is under way, with the east and south taking the lead.
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- Energy
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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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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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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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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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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