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Respecting social norms, traditions, and cultures, the Working Group collaborates with stakeholders to provide practical recommendations to facilitate environmentally-safe, measurable, and cost-effective sustainable energy system technologies and solutions to enhance economic and social viability, standard of living, and quality of life of people living in developing communities
Areas of Interest
- Off-grid energy project sustainability indicators & frameworks
- Sustainability/Survivability of projects
- Successful business models for rural and peri-urban electricity service
- Rural Electrification
- Technical Capacity building for sustainable rural electrification
- Educational needs for NGO-led electrification interventions
- Electric and non-electric solutions: evaluation of appropriateness for the need;
- Gender and equality in energy access
- Productive use of energy
- Entrepreneurship training for sustainable electrification
- Community based business models in rural electrification
- Safe end of life disposal and management of batteries and other local environmental impacts
- Community awareness and engagement in rural electrification
- Assessing the viability of mini/micro-grids in developing countries
- Geo-spatial electricity distribution planning in developing countries
- Forecasting and planning tools for micro-grids
See position paper here: SESDC Position Paper_2.0