Events

THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: This seminar presents findings from a four-phase clean energy programme delivered in Kenya between 2022 and 2025. Beginning with solar providers, Phase 1 strengthened how sales agents communicated the real-life benefits of solar technologies through an SDG lens. Phase 2 piloted training with women’s chamas, showing strong knowledge gains and increased confidence [...]

Energy systems are often defined by physical boundaries and framed as either connected (interconnected grids) or isolated (energy islands), yet this binary view obscures how they actually operate and are governed. To move beyond this limitation, the concept of “island-ness” is introduced as a socio-technical analytical lens capturing varying degrees of isolation and connectedness across systems — from spacecraft, energy [...]

THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT Summary: Insights from six years of clean energy innovation projects in Africa – Smart Villages is an Impact Innovation company, working on solutions for community development in the global South, to generate a positive social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Almost everyone in the sector argues that communities and impact are [...]