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Portal:Productive Use
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Welcome to the Productive Use Portal!
Overview on Productive Use
Climate Change and Productive Use
Examples of Productive Use
- Lighting
- Energy for Agriculture
- Solar Cooling
- Solar Drying
- Cooling for Agriculture
- Solar Milk Cooling
- Ice-Making in Green Mini-Grid Systems
- Energy Needs in Smallholder Agriculture
- Productive Use (PU) - Approaches of GIZ
- Solar Kiosk
- Grain Mill
- Milling in Green Mini-Grid Systems
- Views on productive use in rural areas
- Off-grid Productive Use of Energy Catalogs
Promotion, Financing & Business Models for Productive Use
Promotion:
- Workshops at Community Level to Raise Awareness of Productive Use of Electricity
- Promotion of PUE through Public Private Partnerships - Inensus Senegal
- Enterprise Based Promotion of Watermills (pico hydro) in India
Financing & Business Models:
- Enhancing Access to Financial Services for Productive Use Projects
- Assessing the Economic Viability of Business Ideas for Productive Use
- Comparative Financial Analysis of Irrigation Solutions
- Business Plan for Solar Processing of Tomatoes - Ethiopia
- Opportunities for Agri-Food Chains to become Energy-Smart
Case studies on Productive Use
- Remote but productive: practical lessons on productive uses of energy in Tanzania
- Case study from Indonesia, Myanmar and Nepal
- Afghanistan: Micro Hydro Power and Productive Use
- PU Promotion in National Administrative Structures (Afghanistan)
- Assessing the Productive Use Potential of Various Districts in Afghanistan
- Tomato Processing by Solar Energy in Ethiopia
- Electricity and Value-added Processing for Agricultural Goods in Haiti in Rural Haiti
- Photovoltaic (PV) Pumping in India
- Latin America and the Caribbean: IDEAS Innovation Context
- Powering Agriculture Examples from Various Countries
- Sheabutter Processing in Benin
- Implementing a Productive Use Grant Scheme in Uganda
- Energy Input in the Maize Value Chain in Benin
Monitoring & Evaluation of Productive Use
Impacts of Productive Use
- India: Access to Electricity for Productive Uses of Energy and Economic Development
- Productive Use of Energy for Micro-hydro Power in Indonesia
- Reviewing the outcomes and impacts
Productive Use Resources
- GIZ HERA: Modern Energy for Modern Agriculture
- ARE: Productive Use of Renewable Energy in Africa
- EUEI PDF: Productive Use Manual for Electrification Practitioners
- PERACOD: Strategie de Developpement des Usages Productifs
- Energy Based Upgrading in Agricultural Value Chains (Phillippins)
- Peru: EnDev document index (in Spanish)
- Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) portal on energypedia
- Productive Use Mini Business Plan Calculator
- Productive Use Mini Business Plan Calculateur - Francais
- Produse.org
- Productive Use of Energy in African Micro-Grids: Technical and Business Considerations
- Toolbox on Solar Powered Irrigation Systems
- Catálogo de Maquinaria para Procesamiento de Cacao
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