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How off-grid renewable energy can improve health, empower women and generate income

2018 Available in English

Off-grid renewable electricity enables a woman in Nepal to continue working in her tailoring business after dark.

Off-grid renewable electricity enables a woman in Nepal to continue working in her tailoring business after dark. Photo: Kit Powney/Tearfund

People need clean, affordable, sustainable and safe energy to get out of poverty. Off-grid renewable electricity offers the most viable way to ensure that everyone has electricity by 2030, especially in rural areas.

This joint report with the Overseas Development Institute shows that solar and micro-hydropower are often cheaper, faster, more reliable, safer and cleaner than extending a centralised grid, or using diesel and kerosene.

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