This section explores the different technologies used to deliver affordable, clean energy to underserved customers.

We look at the technologies in 2 ways:

Power Sources: Where does the power come from? ( i.e. the sun or processed biomass)

Power Uses:  What is the intended use of the technology? (i.e. cleaner cooking, off-grid lighting, or providing specific services)

• The vast majority of organizations surveyed based their technologies on either
  • solar power(40%) or
  • biomass power (43%) (power derived from burning or processing plants or biomass waste).
• These are the two renewable power sources found everywhere in the developing world.
• 20% of organizations used other power sources, such as micro-hydro, micro-wind, human power, and more efficient uses of non-renewable energies.

• Surveyed organizations are providing power or fuel for a number of uses.
• 59% provide off-grid lighting and electricity
• 23% provide cleaner cooking through efficient stoves or cooking fuel production
• 10% produce bio-powered engines and generators, or the fuel to power them
• 10% use renewable energies to power specialized products or services that they provide, such as health care or education in off-grid areas, or solar powered milk chillers.