Energy Change Lab
Putting ordinary citizens at the heart of future energy systems

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• Video: Energy as an enabler for income generation in Tanzania

  Posted on July 7, 2020July 7, 2020 by Bram

  Since 2016, the Energy Change Lab has worked on a project to ensure that electricity can be used for economic and social gain. Going beyond electricity for household use, people are now using electricity to run businesses and improve their income. The Energy Change Lab in cooperation with CEFA has developed a mobile unit, travelling […]

• Prompting productive uses of energy on rural Tanzanian mini-grids

  Posted on September 23, 2019September 23, 2019 by Bram

  By Kevin Johnstone, IIED Since 2015, the Energy Change Lab (a programme of IIEDand Hivos) has been researching, prototyping, implementing, and testing productive uses of energy (PUE) activities to help build end-user electricity demand in Tanzania (read more here and here). Initial research by the International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) highlighted the fact […]