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Portal:Impacts
Welcome to the Impacts Portal
The impact portal provides an overview of research methods, questionnaires and tools as well as on articles on social, economic and environmental impacts of renewable energy on energypedia. Impacts of specific technologies can be found on the respective portals.
Questionnaires and Tools
Specific Impacts
Find here all articles and files tagged with the Impact category:
Check also the technology portals and the energy access portal for specific impacts.
Research Methods and Evaluation Designs
Evaluation Designs
- Catalogue of Methods for Impact Studies
- Interviews / Discussions - Qualitative Methods
- Quantitative Methods
- Profound Household Survey
- Short Household Survey
- Experimental Design
- Quasi-Experimental or Non-Experimental Designs
- Control Groups
- Result Based Monitoring of Cookstove Projects
Sampling
Indicator Development
- Indicators for Rural Electrification and Improved Cookstoves - "What to measure" and "How to measure"
- Impacts, Observation Fields and Indicators for Cooking Energy
Data Collection and Analysis
Selected Impact Studies
- Impacts of Rural Electrification in Uganda 2011-2019
- IOB Study - Renewable Energy. Access and Impact. A systematic literature review of the impact on livelihoods of interventions providing access to renewable energy in developing countries
- Survey on Impacts - Stove Project Kenya (2009)
- Uses & Impacts of Solar Water Pumps Insights from Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia
- Understanding Multi-Level Drivers of Behaviour Change - A Cross-Impact Balance Analysis of What Influences the Adoption of Improved Cookstoves in Kenya
- Assessing the Sustainability of Decentralized Renewable Energy Systems: A Comprehensive Framework with Analytical Methods
- Impact Pathways of Small-Scale Energy Projects In The Global South – Findings from a Systematic EvaluationImpacts and Effects of Improved Wood Burning Stoves on Time Use and Quality: An Experimental Study in Rural Kenya
- PRODUSE II: Measuring Impact of Electrification on Micro and Small Enterprises in Nepal
Sustainability Evaluation
Impacts Events
8 April 2026
6th S-Access International Conference on Solar Technologies & Hybrid Mini-Grids for Energy Access
Job offers
31 December 2025
Solar Engineer
31 December 2025
Senior Project Manager, Carbon Finance
Opportunities
31 December 2025
Intergenerational Justice Prize (IJP)
12 January 2026
Call for research proposals: Case studies of innovation for scaling renewable energy in Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean
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