News about Productive Use of Energy (PUE)

@World Bank
The remote village of Doda has a story to tell. Two years ago, artisans like Twalib Matata toiled with basic tools to carve a living from the region’s distinctive Tanga stone, only to have to sell it unprocessed for meager returns.
@Agsol
Successful gender-smart approaches require moving beyond simple product modifications to developing comprehensive ecosystems that address women’s constraints while leveraging their strengths as customers, entrepreneurs, and agents of change.
Small solar projects overseen by private development groups in Kenya are, right now, catalyzing economic and social change. For instance, World Neighbors runs community-centered development projects in Kenya. This is some of what solar panels are doing to help initiate sustainable development among rural farming communities.
There is a rapidly growing trend towards adopting solar-powered irrigation systems as a critical adaptive strategy by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. The El Niño phenomenon has intensified food and water insecurity across southern Africa, including Zambia, resulting in an increase in the adoption of solar-powered irrigation pumps.
The project aimed to demonstrate that solar-powered technologies can transform rural dairy value chains nationally and mobilise collaboration among key players – such as solar technology suppliers, impact investors, dairy cooperatives, and processors – to accelerate the us of solar technologies in rural dairy production, to establish a viable model
Over the past few months, South Africans have enjoyed something that would have seemed miraculous only a year ago — a stable energy supply. One factor has been the government’s decision to encourage both householders and businesses to generate their own power from solar systems.