[Stoves] HEDON Newsletter- September 2014

HEDON Household Energy Network hedon at hedon.info
Tue Sep 30 08:07:26 CDT 2014


Welcome to the September 2014 issue of the HEDON newsletter.

In this issue:
HEDON features of the month
Latest news from around the World
Events
Jobs


HEDON features of the month

HEDON’s latest issue of Boiling Point ‘Barriers to Cookstoves’ will be released in November 2014. Please contact our Editorial Team if you would like to volunteer to edit an article or sponsor the issue: boilingpoint at hedon.info

This month, we welcome Jack Dedman to the HEDON Board of Trustees. Jack will bring his experience and skills as a Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers to his role as HEDON's Finance Trustee.

HEDON invites all our readers and supporters of Boiling Point to take our BP survey (available at: http://www.hedon.info/BPSurvey). Feedback from our survey allows the HEDON team to consider theme suggestions for future Boiling Point issues as well as continue to make our journal as accessible, practitioner- friendly and current as possible.


News


IIED publishes a new energy finance paper,  <http://www.hedon.info/article3063> "Sharing the load: Public and private sector roles in financing pro-poor energy access"


Published: Wed 24 of Sep., 2014 11:36 GMT

Sharing the load: Public and private sector roles in financing pro-poor energy access
Emma Wilson, Neha Rai, Sarah Best
Free download available at: http://pubs.iied.org/16560IIED.html


Tanzania To Use More Natural Gas And Coal To Combat Energy Poverty <http://www.hedon.info/article3059> 


Published: Tue 12 of Aug., 2014 10:05 GMT

In the last several years, Tanzania has suffered from a growing energy deficit, in part due to recurring droughts that have crippled hydropower capacity. The government recently launched a 10-year initiative aiming to diversify its power generation sources to include more natural gas and introduce coal. Concerns about the climate are legitimate, but to raise its citizens out of poverty, the energy roadmap has prioritised raising per capita income in Tanzania from $640 to at least $3,000. Critics say the government has mostly failed to tap the country’s other renewable energy potential to help bridge the power gap.


IDB launches new Energy Innovation Centre website and interactive database  <http://www.hedon.info/article3056> 


Published: Wed 06 of Aug., 2014 10:16 GMT

The Inter-American Bank (IDB) has just launched its new Energy Innovation Center website featuring an interactive energy database, nicknamed "the Database for the 21st Century."


The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund announces third round of the REACT funding window <http://www.hedon.info/article3055> 


Published: Wed 06 of Aug., 2014 10:10 GMT

The AECF Renewable Energy and Adaptation to Climate Technologies (REACT) window is a special fund of the AECF that is open to business ideas based on low cost clean energy and solutions (technologies, products, services) that can help rural people adapt to climate change.

REACT provides patient risk capital (grants, interest free loans) to businesses with potentially transformative climate change solutions and which seek to make a profit, go to scale and to have a deep social impact. To date, REACT is investing in 32 companies across East Africa and 12 in Mozambique, with an overall portfolio size of approximately US$34 million.




ICCG Competition: Best Climate Practices for Energy Poverty Alleviation <http://www.hedon.info/article3053> 


Published: Thu 31 of July, 2014 10:29 GMT

On the launching of the Best Climate Practices observatory’s new platform, the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) is inaugurating its second edition of the International Competition on Best Climate Practices with this year’s invitation to submit innovative proposals on the theme of energy poverty.

Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka438Ovhwcg


New GSI and IISD Report: Power, Gender and Fossil-fuel Subsidy Reform in India  <http://www.hedon.info/article3052> 


Published: Thu 31 of July, 2014 10:23 GMT

Published on July 11 2014, this paper explores the link between fossil-fuel subsidies and gender in India. It focuses on the likely gender impacts of reform across cooking, lighting, pumping and transport fuels.


First African Waste-to-Ethanol Company recognized by Mentor Capital Network <http://www.hedon.info/article3048> 


Published: Mon 28 of July, 2014 16:03 GMT

Small Medium Enterprise Fundamentals’ (SMEFUNDS) Green Energy & Biofuels won the 2014 WJF Chuck Dell Award for Sustainable Business. Mentor Capital Network selected the enterprise based on social impact and potential for growth. The award was a competitive process that considered the business models and results from 558 social enterprises from around the world.


2014 Ashden Award Winners  <http://www.hedon.info/article3045> 


Published: Mon 28 of July, 2014 11:37 GMT

Ashden Awards announces its 2014 winners- 14 trailblazing sustainable energy organisations presented with an Ashden Award worth £5,000–£40,000 at a prestigious ceremony in London. Learn more about the winners and their projects at: http://www.ashden.org/awards/2014


Power for All – The Energy Access Imperative  <http://www.hedon.info/article3044> 


Published: Mon 28 of July, 2014 11:32 GMT

The white paper “Power for All – The Energy Access Imperative” is a call to a different action for the policymakers, stakeholders, entrepreneurs and customers engaged in driving universal energy access for the billions of people without reliable power


Deutsche Bank supports The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves  <http://www.hedon.info/article3043> 


Published: Mon 28 of July, 2014 11:21 GMT

A new partnership, seeking to find innovative solutions for cleaner cooking, brings together Gary Hattem, president of the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, Radha Muthiah, the executive director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, and Jonathan Cedar, CEO of BioLite, a producer of clean cookstoves based in Brooklyn.


Practical Action launches the Poor People’s Energy Outlook (PPEO) 2014 report  <http://www.hedon.info/article3042> 


Published: Mon 28 of July, 2014 11:12 GMT

The PPEO was launched at the Sustainable Energy for All Forum in New York City in June 2014. The report is available in both English and French.


IISD Reporting Services releases a summary of the 13th session of the UN General Assembly Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (14-19 July 2014)  <http://www.hedon.info/article3041> 


Published: Mon 28 of July, 2014 11:04 GMT

Proposed goal 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.


Events


ARGeo-C5 <http://www.hedon.info/article3040> 


Geothermal Conference in Arusha, Tanzania


WLPGA to Host the LPG Village at World Gas Conference 2015  <http://www.hedon.info/article3062> 


The World Gas Conference (WGC)
1-5 June 2015, Porte de Versailles convention centre, Paris.


MENA Clean Energy Forum 2014 <http://www.hedon.info/article3061> 


We are delighted to announce the upcoming MENA Clean Energy Forum which will be taking place in Dubai on 9 December 2014.

The MENA Clean Energy Forum will bring together stakeholders interested in investing, financing, developing and operating clean energy projects in the regions.

We have a number of speaking opportunities available and are currently accepting presentation proposals. For more information on speaking and sponsoring opportunities please contact: Vivian Peters on +44 (0) 20 3239 6776 or vivian at elimucommunications.com

Visit: http://www.elimucommunications.com/mena-clean-energy-forum.html#1-conference-overview


Jobs


Sales and Marketing manager wanted <http://www.hedon.info/article3007> 


End Date: Fri 06 of Mar., 2015

SunFire Solutions is looking for dynamic driven individual (s..?) to join this young Company and drive sales for South Africa's best established Solar Cooker Company, based in Johannesburg but working Nationally and Internationally.

 

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