Energy expertise

Practical Action’s work in sustainable and renewable energy for poverty reduction include the following:

• Improved stoves and household energy
  Energy-efficient stoves in Kenya, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
• Smoke and health
  Reducing indoor air pollution in rural households
• Micro-hydro power
  Small-scale hydro-electric schemes that do not require construction of a dam
• Solar power
  Low-cost solar lanterns
• Biogas
  Fermented cow dung produces gas for cooking and lighting
• Small-scale wind power
  Wind turbines to charge the vehicle batteries which many households in Peru and Sri Lanka use as a power source for lighting