Energy Ideas Bank

Many policies designed to promote renewables and increase energy efficiency have already been launched by parliaments throughout the world. The Climate Parliament is publishing the following selection with the intention that they inspire others to even greater achievement.

Energy Access

Access: Develop Clear Rural Electrification Selection Criteria

Access: Minimize Construction Costs of Extending the Grid

Access: Self-Help programmes encourage grid-connection

Access: Supply Electricity Through Rural Cooperatives

Energy Efficiency

Efficiency: Building Codes Improve Inefficient Buildings 

Efficiency: Consumer Charge Promotes Energy Savings

Efficiency: Efficient Cookstoves Help Rural Populations

Efficiency: Efficient Distribution Transformers Save Energy

Efficiency: Increase Energy Supply Through Efficiency

Efficiency: Labels and Certification Encourages Efficiency  

Efficiency: Let Top-Runners set Energy Efficiency Standards

Efficiency: Make Small Businesses' Lighting Energy-Efficient   

Efficiency: Minimum Standards for Efficient Industrial Motors

Efficiency: Minimum Standards Increase Energy Efficiency  

Efficiency: Paying Poor Households Reduces Energy Waste

Efficiency: Price energy according to its true cost 

Efficiency: Promote Energy Efficiency with Building Codes 

Efficiency: Promote Fuel Efficient Cars through Labelling

Efficiency: Public Procurement Spearheads Efficiency 

Efficiency: Rebates Help Small Businesses Save Energy      

Efficiency: Rebates on Efficient Appliances Help Sales  

Efficiency: Reduce Energy Waste of Equipment on Standby  

Efficiency: Stimulating Investments in Energy Efficiency 

Efficiency: Taxes and Rebates Improve Vehicle Fuel Efficiency

Efficiency: Thai Voluntary Energy Labels Improve Efficiency

Efficiency: Voluntary Agreements on Energy Efficiency 

Promoting Renewables

Renewables: Biogas Plants Improve Life in Rural Areas

Renewables: Blended Fuels Reduce Environmental Impact 

Renewables: Concentrated Solar Power to Electrify Europe 

Renewables: Contract out Rural Power Supply

Renewables: Ethanol reduces fuel imports and pollution

Renewables: Increase Renewables with Portfolio Standards  

Renewables: Microfinance to Promote Renewable Energy

Renewables: Micro-finance for Solar Lighting Systems

Renewables: Micro-Hydro power improves lives for rural poor

Renewables: Reduce Emissions, Save Forests with Biogas

Renewables: Regulate to Develop Geothermal Power

Renewables: Rural Areas Electrified with Renewables  

Renewables: School Children Learn by Using Solar Panels

Renewables: Solar panels made affordable for the rural poor

Renewables: Solar PV mini-grids for Small Islands

Renewables: Solar thermal power helped by feed-in tariffs

 

 


European Union
Oxfam Novib
Stiftung-drittes-millennium
United Nations Development Programme
The Environmental Defense Fund
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency