Katrina Dasalla
Why does household electricity demand not grow in some developing countries?
Recent analysis shows household growth in demand for electricity remaining stubbornly low in some less developed countries. This has been...
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Stephen Nash
- Oct 19, 2021
A policy trilemma for energy access?
Rapid technological change and cost reduction has transformed the drive towards increasing access to clean and affordable energy in...
Stephen Nash
- Oct 21, 2020
The impact of the global recession on reaching SDG 7
As increasing amounts of data become available, the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on efforts to improve energy access in less...
Stephen Nash
- Oct 21, 2020
Designing sustainable subsidies to accelerate universal energy access
Building on previous work, Kuungana Advisory has recently been working with Tearfund, a UK-based relief and development agency, to...
Stephen Nash
- Jul 20, 2020
Quality and cost reduction in the off-grid solar sector
Earlier in 2020, GOGLA published a new report titled “Pricing Quality: Cost Drivers and Value-Add in the Off-Grid Solar Sector”. The...
Stephen Nash
- Jan 29, 2020
The importance of electricity trading to driving green growth in Africa
According to the latest Tracking SDG 7 data from SE4All, we still live in a world where only 44% of people across sub-Saharan Africa...
Stephen Nash
- Sep 22, 2019
A Whole System Approach for the energy sector
All too often it is easy to miss the connections between the different issues that we tackle in the energy sector. Kuungana Advisory has...
Stephen Nash
- May 7, 2019
Is there a looming African electricity demand crunch?
There is increasing discussion of the potential for over-supply of utility-scale electricity generation capacity across many of the...
Stephen Nash
- Dec 10, 2018
An agile approach to energy access
We know that subsidies and cross-subsidies will be required to achieve SDG7: Universal access to clean and affordable energy. Some of the...
Stephen Nash
- Nov 20, 2018
Utility tariffs: financial sustainability vs. cost reflectivity
Initial reactions to the title of this blog? Surely we can talk about financial sustainability and cost reflectivity interchangeably,...
Stephen Nash
- Jun 26, 2018
Complex cooking – why have we not yet cracked one of the most critical parts of the energy access pu
Significant progress has been made in recent years in increasing the role of renewable energy in Africa. In several countries...
Stephen Nash
- Apr 23, 2018
The mini-grid tariff dilemma – a political choice
There are lots of challenges facing mini-grid developers in Africa, and – as yet – their potential remains unfulfilled. At the heart of...
Stephen Nash
- Apr 9, 2018
Behind-the-meter renewables in Africa
In European and North American markets consumers (especially large industrial and commercial consumers) are increasingly producing their...
Stephen Nash
- Dec 4, 2017
Why are SHS sales slowing?
The rise of the off-grid solar market in sub-Saharan Africa has been a success story for improving energy access in the region. But the...
Stephen Nash
- Oct 26, 2017
Sticking plasters on sticking plasters
About 18 months ago I posted a blog suggesting that we would need to rethink the design of electricity markets to tackle some of the...
Stephen Nash
- Sep 11, 2017
The link between mini-grids and productive growth
Previously, I’ve published a short report including analysis of the economics of mini-grids, illustrating how the relative merits of...
Stephen Nash
- May 31, 2017
Scaling up off-grid business models
There remain barriers to scaling up off-grid barriers, and the placemat below identifies some of the practical strategies that companies...