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Interview: Bringing light and stoves to rural East Timor

Lack of energy access does more then keep households in the dark: it also limits economic development and exacerbates health problems. An interview with Will Barron about innovative ways to make solar electricity and efficient cookstoves available in the marketplace in Timor-Leste.

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Sun queens: Barefoot College women turn on the lights in off-grid villages

Solar Sister entrepreneurs earn commissions for the sale of solar energy products to people who need them. Photo: <a href="http://www.solarsister.org/">Solar Sister</a>

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Solar Sister: Lighting up livelihoods from one sister to another

A recent CNN article explains how one group in east Africa aims to help women create economic opportunities and eradicate energy poverty at the same time through commission-based sales of solar products

A new IIED report spells out the need for clean-energy projects to measure success based on metrics to which local stakeholders have agreed. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16901703@N06/4290071780/sizes/z/in/photostream/">Groundreporter (Flickr)</a>

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How to measure clean-energy success

How will we figure out whether our antipoverty project succeeded? A new report recommends getting guidance from its beneficiaries.

Declaring victories would be so easy if only we didn't have to prove they were real. A new report has advice on how to do so.

SELCO Technician installing solar panels. Credit: SELCO

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SELCO: A shining star in market-driven social enterprise

This article was republished by The Christian Science Monitor

In India, one iconoclastic solar company employs deep knowledge of the ways communities use energy to overthrow the traditional means of bringing power to the people.