Renewable Energy for Unleasing Sustainable Development ― Blending Technology Finance and Policy in Low and Middle Income Economies

The book aims at analyzing technologies and business models within a new approach to sustainable global resource management. It will produce a set of recommendations for further activities and networking on access to energy services and renewable energies. The first part will review the issue of access to energy, as precondition for socio-economic progress. A global description of the current situation will be depicted, with an analysis on access to electricity, share of modern fuels and future trends. The three main interlinked topics related to energy in sustainable growth will be investigated: appropriate technologies for modern energy services, business models for the development of new energy markets, policies to support new energy systems. In the third part the issue of access to energy will be discussed with the contribution of different stakeholders to highlight the complementarity of the roles of all actor and the need for partnership.

Emanuela Colombo is Associate Professor in Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics and Energetic at Politecnico di Milano. She is also Rector’s Delegate to the international relationship with Africa and to Cooperation and Development at Politecnico di Milano. Stefano Bologna is the Director of the International Centre for Science and High Technology (ICS) of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), which focuses on scientific and technical capacity building of developing countries particularly in the areas of renewable energies and utilization of bio-resources. Diego Masera is the Chief of the Renewable and Rural Energy Unit at UNIDO, where he coordinates the Organization’s global portfolio of Renewable Energy.