Handshake, No. 13 (April 2014)

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 814.6 American essays in English
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 302779
• Chủ đề: 1. ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY; 2. ACCESS TO ENERGY; 3. AIR; 4. AIR POLLUTION; 5. APPROACH

Tóm tắt

 This issue of Handshake, focused on public-private partnerships in the power sector, brings diverse expert voices together to discuss how to increase access to energy in developing countries. Features on hydropower and renewables together with examples from Africa and Latin America provide an up-to-the-minute look at one of the most important and rapidly evolving sectors today. This issue includes the following headings: power and mining: digging deep to power up
  market mover: intraday electricity trading
  timeline to transformation: Nigerias privatization
  energy for development: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MITs) new research
  and interview: United Nation (UN) sustainable energy for all (SE4ALL) special representative Kandeh Yumkella. Whats it like to be energy-poor? Kandeh Yumkella, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Sustainable Energy for All, answers that question and many more in this issue of Handshake. Yumkella recalls his own experiences in Sierra Leone to illustrate the link between energy poverty and income poverty and explains how PPPs can help.