Access to energy is essential to reduce poverty. Globally, 1.06 billion people do not have access to electricity. About 3.04 billion use solid fuels — wood, charcoal, coal, and dung — for cooking and heating.
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April 5, 2017 — A free resource and a public good for finding and sharing datasets and data analytics relevant to the energy sector? Now there’s a digital platform for that.
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April 3, 2017 — The current pace of progress on three global energy goals – access to electricity, renewable energy and efficiency – is not fast enough to meet 2030 targets, according to the latest Global Tracking Framework report released today.
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February 15, 2017 — The World Bank launched RISE -- Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy -- a first-of-its-kind policy scorecard that assesses the investment climate in 111 countries for energy access, energy efficiency and renewable energy.
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January 17, 2017 — The newly launched Global Solar Atlas helps investors and policymakers identify potential sites for solar power generation virtually anywhere in the world at the click of a button.
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December 28, 2016 — Solar panels, Syrian refugees, cookstoves in Kenya and electricity access in Africa. These were among the stories that you, our readers, liked, retweeted and shared the most in 2016. We love that you are plugged into these issues, and will bring you more of these stories in 2017.
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December 22, 2016 — This man’s stationery store in Tanzania is actually inside a 16 KW mini grid container and under the shade of 60 solar panels – a classic example of how the sun is changing lives, writes Sunita Dubey.
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