Publications

Policy Brief - October 2022

Can Time-of-Use Tariffs Increase the Financial Viability of Mini-Grids?

Marie McNamara, Victoria Plutshack, Jonathan Phillips, Nicole Poindexter

Cover page of publication - Improving Rural Livelihoods, Energy Access, and Resilience Where It’s Needed Most: The Case for Solar Mini-Grid Irrigation in Ethiopia

Policy Brief - July 2022

Improving Rural Livelihoods, Energy Access, and Resilience Where It’s Needed Most: The Case for Solar Mini-Grid Irrigation in Ethiopia

Matthew Ingram, Jonathan Phillips, Hizkyas Dufera, Liuel Hizikias, Marc Jeuland, and James Lovedale

Working Paper - March 2022

Barriers to off-grid energy development: Evidence from a comparative survey of private sector energy service providers in East Africa

Marc Jeuland, Samuel Abera, Peter Babyenda, Abebe D. Beyen, Gabriel Hinju, Richard Mulwa, Jonathan Phillips

Policy Brief - December 2021

COVID-19 and Distributed Renewables: How the Crisis Has Affected the Sector and What It Means for People, the Planet, and the Future of Energy Access

James E. Rogers Energy Access Project and Bboxx

Working Paper - March 2021

Electrification to Grow Manufacturing? Evidence from Nepal

Robyn Meeks, Hope F. Thompson, Zhenxuan Wang

Blog Post - December 2020

Lessons from the proliferating mini-grid incentive programs in Africa

Jonathan Phillips, Benjamin Attia, Victoria Plutshack

Policy Brief - December 2020

Lessons for Modernizing Energy Access Finance, Part 2 – Balancing Competition and Subsidy: Assessing Mini-Grid Incentive Programs in sub-Saharan Africa

Jonathan Phillips, Benjamin Attia, Victoria Plutshack

Journal Article - January 2021

Is energy the golden thread? A systematic review of the impacts of modern and traditional energy use in low- and middle-income countries

Marc Jeuland, T. Robert Fetter, Yating Li, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Faraz Usmani, Randall A. Bluffstone, Carlos Chávez, Hannah Girardeau, Sied Hassen, Pamela Jagger, Mónica M. Jaime, Mary Karumba, Gunnar Köhlin, Luciane Lenz, Erin L. Litzow, Lauren Masatsugu, Maria Angelica Naranjo, Jörg Peters, Ping Qin, Remidius D. Ruhinduka, Montserrat Serrano-Medranor, Maximiliane Sievert, Erin O. Sills, Michael Toman

Blog Post - June 2020

You can’t fight pandemics without power

Rob Fetter, Anthony Fuller, Jem Porcaro, and Cyrus Sinai

Mini-grids Publications