Ecofogon Stove Used in Small Business in Nicaragua Recently I helped complete a new report on energy access in Latin American the the Car...

Figure 1. Consumer Surplus for Lighting (Graphic: Doug Barnes) By Doug Barnes The concept of consumer surplus in measuring the benefit...

By Doug Barnes For several years I have been involved in a project to understand why the electricity connection rates in India are not hi...

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

By Doug Barnes  Rural Energy and Development, Published 1996 In 1996 I wrote "It is hard not to be daunted by the scale of p...

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

by Doug Barnes, Shahid Khandker and Hussain Samad There is a continuing discussion over what constitutes energy poverty with several app...

Between 2005 and 2009 I was the technical editor of an ESMAP Knowledge Exchange Series that involved the publication of four page summari...

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...

What is rural electrification? This definitioin appears simple but it is becoming more and more complicated as new devices and systems are ...

I have received a rather long comment from Andrew Barnett from The Policy Practice and I thought it would be good to include his insights on...

The small technologies such as solar lanterns and small lights have always been a challenge to promote under development programs. Solar ...

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...

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

Adult Literacy Class, Bangladesh by Shehzad Noorani People often forget that once Bangladesh was close to being the poorest country on ...

Vietnam Rural Television Viewing: Photo by WB Hanoi Today most of us take electronic communications for granted. We are tethered to our e...

The pace of rural electrification over much of the developing world has been painfully slow, especially in South Asia and Africa. Rural elec...