Click Image for Amazon "Look Inside" I recently published a new book on the impact of rural electrification in develop...

By Doug Barnes Household Electricity Meter Picture Credit: Douglas Barnes Today many development agencies focus on the price and phys...

By Doug Barnes A couple of years ago I completed this review of Modernizing Energy Services for the Poor:   A World Bank Investment Revie...

By Doug Barnes The International Energy Association (IEA) has published a very nice special paper with the title Energy Poverty: How to M...

By Doug  Barnes   A “new” report on rural electrification in Peru demonstrates the usefulness of conducting energy surveys to help with...

By Doug Barnes I have noticed that there has been quite a bit of material circulating recently on energy access and subsidies.  The Worl...

Strong institutions, favorable financing, clear service territories, encouraging productive uses, reducing drudgery for women, and local inv...

Solar PV Adoption by Herders, Qinghai, China Photo by China REDP Team Over the past 15 years strategies for solar home system promotion...

Rural Electrification Lineman Bangladesh Photo by WB Dhaka The rural electrification figures in developing countries are pretty well kno...