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Portal:Productive Use
Welcome to the Productive Use Portal
The productive use portal provides an overview of the articles related to productive energy use on energypedia.
Overview on Productive Use
Promotion, Financing & Business Models for Productive Use
Promotion:
- Workshops at Community Level to Raise Awareness of Productive Use of Electricity
- Promotion of PUE through Public Private Partnerships - Inensus Senegal
- Enterprise Based Promotion of Watermills (pico hydro) in India
Financing & Business Models:
- Enhancing Access to Financial Services for Productive Use Projects
- Assessing the Economic Viability of Business Ideas for Productive Use
- Comparative Financial Analysis of Irrigation Solutions
- Business Plan for Solar Processing of Tomatoes - Ethiopia
- Opportunities for Agri-Food Chains to become Energy-Smart
Case studies on Productive Use
- Remote but productive: practical lessons on productive uses of energy in Tanzania
- Case study from Indonesia, Myanmar and Nepal
- Afghanistan: Micro Hydro Power and Productive Use
- PU Promotion in National Administrative Structures (Afghanistan)
- Assessing the Productive Use Potential of Various Districts in Afghanistan
- Tomato Processing by Solar Energy in Ethiopia
- Electricity and Value-added Processing for Agricultural Goods in Haiti in Rural Haiti
- Photovoltaic (PV) Pumping in India
- Latin America and the Caribbean: IDEAS Innovation Context
- Powering Agriculture Examples from Various Countries
- Sheabutter Processing in Benin
- Implementing a Productive Use Grant Scheme in Uganda
- Energy Input in the Maize Value Chain in Benin
- Solar Drying for Farmer-Clusters and Cooperatives in Ethiopia
- Productive Use Promotion for Rural Entrepreneurs and Smallholder Farmers in Uganda
- Disseminating Rural Energy Access with Training in Uganda
- Increasing Access to Energy and Access to Finance for Coffee Farmers in Uganda
- Improving the Energy Supply for Ugandan Tea factories
Energy Technologies and Productive Use
Examples of Productive Use
- Lighting
- Energy for Agriculture
- Solar Cooling
- Solar Drying
- Cooling for Agriculture
- Solar Milk Cooling
- Ice-Making in Green Mini-Grid Systems
- Energy Needs in Smallholder Agriculture
- Productive Use (PU) - Approaches of GIZ
- Solar Kiosk
- Grain Mill
- Milling in Green Mini-Grid Systems
- Views on productive use in rural areas
- Off-grid Productive Use of Energy Catalogs
Climate Change and Productive Use
Monitoring & Evaluation of Productive Use
Impacts of Productive Use
Productive Use Resources
- Energy for Rural Industrialisation Productive Use of Energy 2.0
- GIZ HERA: Modern Energy for Modern Agriculture
- ARE: Productive Use of Renewable Energy in Africa
- EUEI PDF: Productive Use Manual for Electrification Practitioners
- PERACOD: Strategie de Developpement des Usages Productifs
- Energy Based Upgrading in Agricultural Value Chains (Phillippins)
- Peru: EnDev document index (in Spanish)
- Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) portal on energypedia
- Productive Use Mini Business Plan Calculator
- Productive Use Mini Business Plan Calculateur - Francais
- Produse.org
- Productive Use of Energy in African Micro-Grids: Technical and Business Considerations
- Toolbox on Solar Powered Irrigation Systems
- Catálogo de Maquinaria para Procesamiento de Cacao
- (SEforALL) Cooling for All Solutions Tool
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