Fuel briquettes

Biomass briquettes are made by pressing loose biomass residues, or waste, to produce compact solid blocks of different sizes and shapes. They are made by applying pressure, heat and binding agent to the loose materials to produce the briquettes of different shapes and sizes.

Solar Photovoltaic Water Pumping

The advantages and disadvantages of solar water pumping are outlined in this document.

Cable Selection in Small Off-grid Solar energy Installations

Ideally, voltage drop in a solar energy installation should be

A Handbook of Small-scale Energy Technologies

Neil Noble

Gaining access to modern forms of energy remains a crucial but under-recognised aspect of poverty reduction in the Global South. Practical Action has long been recognised as a leading authority on energy access, with decades of development programme and project experience worldwide upon which to bas...

Climate Change and Threatened Communities

A. Peter Castro, Dan Taylor, David W. Brokensha

Global climate change disproportionately affects rural people and indigenous groups, but their rights, knowledge, and interests concerning it are generally unacknowledged. Shifts in precipitation, cloud cover, temperature, and other climatic patterns alter their livelihood pursuits and cultural land...

Natural resource management and the importance of gender

Taking into account the different roles and responsibilities of men and women is critical to the sustainable management of natural resources as well as the success of NRM policies and programmes. We need to be aware that NRM programmes may affect women and men differently due to their rights, roles...

Small-scale Off grid Solar PV Installation Manual

A complete installation guide for Solar PV systems up to 235W (or one solar panel.) Written in collaboration with Quetsol, primarily for applications in Guatemala.

Biogas Digest: Volume II

Important factors, providing a checklist for the planning and procedure for product development of a biogas plant.

Poor People's Energy Outlook 2012

Access to energy is essential for poor people to earn a decent living, to work their way out of the vicious cycle of poverty and subsistence. Whether you earn off the land, from a small business, through a job in a larger enterprise or through the supply of energy itself, energy is important. Poor P...

Decentralized Energy Access and the Millennium Development Goals

Gwénaëlle Legros, Kamal Rijal, Bahareh Seyedi

Decentralized, off-grid power supplies such as micro hydropower can be perceived as expensive investments by poor countries like Nepal. Can these investments be justified by the benefits that electricity brings to villages in remote mountainous regions? This book describes research into the developm...