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SEI’s research and engagement seek to accelerate renewable energy adoption in a just and equitable manner that maximizes social, environmental and development benefits while mitigating negative impacts.
SEI leverages our multidisciplinary expertise to conduct research, establish partnerships with local to international stakeholders, provide technical assistance, collaboratively strengthen capacities, and develop demonstration and proof-of-concept activities.
Our contributions span multiple domains. We analyse renewable energy policies and inform their design. We contribute to finance mobilization. We seek to improve livelihoods. We investigate renewable energy trade. We develop strategies for off-grid renewables, energy access, and household shifting from traditional biomass to advanced biofuels.
SEI delves into the on-the-ground realities that affect whether lasting renewable energy growth is possible. Explore SEI’s work on these issues and its recommendations on how to foster a just transition away from fossil fuels and toward sustainable energy for all.
Past event / How can we accelerate sustainable energy investments, enhance international cooperation and scale up progress towards energy global goals?
Journal article / An analysis of the concepts of Social License to Operate and Social Acceptance, from the extractive industry to its application in renewable energy.
Feature / Morocco’s 2050 net-zero strategy, supported by SEI, aims to boost GDP, create jobs, and achieve significant environmental and economic benefits.
Feature / Jason Veysey explains how SEI and Morocco created the country's ambitious, long-term, low-emissions development plan, highlighting lessons for other countries.
Feature / Renewable energy finance in Africa faces an uphill battle. With patience and more knowledge sharing, recent encouraging results can continue.
SEI report / This report focuses on hydropower generated in the Norrbotten region of Sweden, from a governance, efficiency and environmental perspective.
Feature / A recent SEI webinar provided a deep dive into the future of ocean-based renewable energy.
Feature / SEI was invited to share research insights with the International Development Association and Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
SEI report / The authors identify enabling factors of social acceptance for wind energy projects and, more broadly, of a just energy transition in La Guajira.
SEI report / This report examines the use of risk mitigation and transfer (RMT) instruments in private utility-scale renewable energy investments.
SEI report / This report explores the role of risk mitigation and transfer (RMT) instruments for enabling renewable energy investments in SADC countries.
SEI brief / This brief examines marine multi-use projects to evaluate current applications and understand potential opportunities and barriers for future projects.
SEI working paper / Researchers review the power dynamics and distributional politics that shape resistance to phasing out coal and to opportunities for change in Colombia.
Feature / A recent SEI workshop in Ghana revealed insights into overcoming investment barriers in African renewable energy.
Perspective / The international community must pay serious attention and spend political capital on the mechanisms through which finance translates into actual projects.
Media coverage / SEI researchers write about the urgent need of financing projects, particularly in developing countries, in an op-ed published in Context.
Feature / Learn more about SEI's efforts and research regarding the social acceptance of wind energy projects in La Guajira, Colombia.
Feature / This story conveys SEI's fieldwork in La Guajira exploring the social acceptance of wind energy among Indigenous Wayuu communities and key challenges.
Media coverage / SEI Research Associate José Vega talks to Bloomberg on challenges in wind energy development in La Guajira, Colombia.
Media coverage / SEI's Anderson Kehbila speaks about Kenya's power sector and the country's efforts in reducing carbon emissions.
Feature / SEI and the the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding formalizing a working collaboration on energy issues.
Miquel Muñoz Cabré, Senior Scientist, US Centre: [email protected]
José Vega Araújo, Research Associate, Latin America Centre: [email protected]
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