Energy Policy Brief No. 13, May 2017
RENEWABLE ENERGY: BIOFUELS
Opportunities and Challenges for the Southern African Development Community
This policy brief highlights some of the opportunities and challenges to boost biofuel development in the SADC region to enable the provision of clean and adequate energy supplies to advance the integration and development agenda.
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Energy Policy Brief No. 12, December 2015
Mainstreaming Gender in the SADC Energy Sector
Without access to modern energy services, women and girls spend most of their time on basic tasks that are time-consuming, non-remunerative and highly laborious, such as collecting biomass fuels. This further exacerbates gender inequalities as many women are unable to access wage employment, education or business opportunities due to these responsibilities, and also limits options for social and political interaction outside the household.
| Mainstreaming_Gender_in_Energy_Policy_Brief_.pdf | [Mainstreaming Gender in Energy Policy Brief] | 1392 kB |
Energy Policy Brief Number 11, Feb 2013
2014-2024 Decade for Sustainable Energy
THE UNITED Nations has declared 2014-2024 as the Decade for Sustainable Energy for all to underscore the importance of energy issues in the post-2015 development agenda. In a resolution made on 21 December 2012, the UN General Assembly called upon member states to galvanize efforts to make universal access to sustainable modern energy services a priority, noting that about 1.3 billion people worldwide are without electricity and another 2.6 billion people in developing countries rely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating. It expressed concern that even when energy services are available, millions of people are unable to pay for them.
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Energy Policy Brief Number 10, December 2012
Towards renewable energy: Challenges and opportunities for using new technologies
RENEWABLE ENERGY technologies are expected to ease southern Africa’s power shortages as the region seeks solutions to a decade long problem that threatens to derail efforts to attain energy self-sufficiency and regional development. Renewable energy is any energy that is naturally replenished, and includes energy from natural resources such as hydro, methane, sunlight, wind and geothermal heat. Energy produced from the refining of biomass is also classified as renewable.
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Energy Policy Brief Number 9, October 2012
Interconnectors – conduits for SADC energy integration
THE SOUTHERN African Power Pool (SAPP) has identified six priority transboundary transmission projects that are expected to improve connectivity and electricity trading in the region by 2017. The priority projects, estimated to cost US$5.6 billion, are part of a portfolio of short to medium-tem projects being pursued by SAPP with the aim of increasing the availability of electricity in the region and connecting non-participating SADC Member States to the regional power grid.