REVS Webinar – Global Trends and Perspectives Presentation

REVS Webinar – Intelligence Presentation

RUN Webinar: Guyana’s Energy Conundrum

A presentation by Patrick Ketwaru discussing Guyana's Energy Conundrum- Opportunities and Challenges. The session highlighted the need of energy for development, how SDG number 7 is involved and the affordability, reliability, sustainability and modernisation of energy services.

RUN Webinar: Sargassum – A Source of Transportation Fuel for Barbados

A RUN Webinar presented by Dr Legena Henry, a lecturer for Renewable Energy at the University of the West Indies entitled 'A Source of Transportation Fuel for Barbados'.

Saint Lucia: National Infrastructure Assessment

This report was written in a collaboration between the Government of St. Lucia, the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the University of Oxford-led Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium (ITRC). The report examines the possible vision for the island’s future infrastructure aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change. this report equips Saint Lucia with a robust approach to infrastructure planning that can ensure that social, economic, and environmental needs are met in a range of future scenarios. Through extensive data collection and cross-sectoral analysis, this report estimates Saint Lucia’s future infrastructure needs for...

Scaling Solar : The Complete Package

In the last few years, IFC has prioritized an approach to creating bankable private sector infrastructure opportunities that is called Scaling focusing not on single asset development, but on a holistic approach that creates a pipeline of infrastructure projects. The essence of the Scaling approach is to develop a robust public-private partnership (PPP) model for a single deal and then replicate it. This spreads costs, enhances impact, and encourages programmatic, competitive tendering, with faster delivery and lower prices genuinely creating new markets. In some countries, this approach involved working with governments to design a process. In others, IFC has worked...

Solar PV System Design: Distributed Generation & Utility Scale – Presentation

Stronger Power : Improving Power Sector Resilience to Natural Hazards

The power sector is both highly vulnerable to natural hazards and a priority for any country'srecovery and reconstruction. After Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017, most of the power gridwas down. One year and tens of billions of dollars later some customers were yet to be reconnected to the main grid. This type of long and widespread power outage has major consequences on people's health and well-being, for instance through lacking access to refrigeration for food and medicine, and on the ability of firms to produce and provide people with goods, services, jobs, and income. In most countries, the...

SUMMARY OF ACHIEVEMENTS - LGGE - "Promoting EE and RE in Buildings in Jamaica"

Sustainable Bioenergy: A Framework for Decision Makers

This paper on sustainable bioenergy was drafted collectively by UN-Energy members, which include all of the United Nations(UN) agencies, programmes, and organizations working in the area of energy, reflecting their insights and expertise. it is intended to contribute to international discussions on the strategies and policies needed to ensure economic, sustainable, and equitable development of bioenergy in the years ahead. The paper points to key social, economic, and ecological; sustainability issues raised by the rapid development of bioenergy in both small and large-scale applications. It encompasses the entire bioenergy value chain, from production to use, with the goal of providing...