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Renewable energy, especially for electricity generation, has been growing at a fast pace with global renewable power capacity addition reaching two-thirds of total generation capacity added in 2018. Renewable power has become competitive with fossil fuel in many countries but renewables still face a variety of barriers to achieve their full potential. The barriers vary across countries/regions and include economic, […]

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Published Year: 2021
Status: Published

Investments in renewable energy are increasing rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa. An interesting trend to note is the rapid increase and likely future growth of Chinese involvement in large-scale renewable-energy infrastructure projects. Our focus in this chapter is to determine the extent of co-benefits created when renewable-energy projects are developed by Chinese investors. For this, we undertake an in-depth micro-level analysis […]

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Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
Published Year: 2021
Status: Published
Number of Pages: 19

This chapter describes the findings and recommendations of rapid assessment on regulation and policy in India to integrate district energy under UNEP’’s District Energy in Cities Initiative. The district energy systems, including district heating and cooling systems, have been considered a cost-effective way to increase energy efficiency and reduce air pollution at the city level. The initiative started its demonstration […]

Publisher: Routledge
Published Year: 2020
Status: Published
ISBN: 9780367361976
Publisher: Routledge
Published Year: 2020
Status: Published
Publisher: Routledge
Published Year: 2020
Status: Published
Number of Pages: 17
ISBN: 9780367361976
Publisher: Routledge
Published Year: 2020
Status: Published