The recent Russia-Ukraine conflict has brought to the forefront the intricate links and dependencies within global economies. In 2019, Russia stood as the world's third-largest energy producer and was...

Abstract Stated preference studies are often based on the assumptions that proposed outcomes would be realized with certainty and respondents believe their survey responses are consequential. This…

Most energy models used for policy analysis are too complex for non-experts. We propose an energy model and demonstrate how non-experts can employ it to understand and evaluate renewable energy…


Background: Motivated by the fact that between 20-40% of health expenditure around the world is wasted due to inefficiencies the magnitude of these efficiencies/inefficiencies is unknown for African...

Abstract This article deals with the feasibility study, system analysis, design, and performance evaluation of micro-hydropower systems for smallholder farmers in rural communities of Taraba state in…

Expansion in access to clean cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa remains well below the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal objectives. In particular, clean and modern forms of cooking have struggled to...

Africa continues to suffer from the effects of climate change in many ways. Records show that the continent’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions have seen tremendous upward adjustments over the past…

Nearly 2.4 billion people lack access to clean cooking fuels and technologies worldwide, representing a critical failure to achieve SDG7’s cooking energy access goal. Dependence on polluting cooking...

The transition to solar energy to provide clean lighting for rural households in developing countries has been slow. Using a Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) bidding mechanism in a randomized field…

Abstract Demand-side management of energy consumption using energy efficiency improvements has the potential to reduce poverty in addition to reducing greenhouse emissions. However, very little is…