Poor street lighting is a common problem in many Ukrainian cities, including Alchevsk. It is especially felt in fall and winter, when daylight hours are limited. Elderly people tend not to go out on the street in the dark, unless it is urgent. Parents leave work earlier to pick up children who stay late at school or take additional classes.
Ukraine’s communal buildings are notoriously energy inefficient. As energy prices climb, outdated technology becomes an increasingly larger liability for municipal budgets.
METHANE TO MARKETS PARTNERSHIP: A STRATEGY FOR ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
– Introduction
– Why Methane is Important
– The World is Not Running Out of Waste: Landfill Gas Energy Opportunities
– Solving the Problems of Livestock Waste
– Coal Mine Methane Provides Opportunity for Power Generation
– Greener Production of Oil and Gas
– Developing Energy Markets to Fuel Economic Growth
– Gas to Power
– India: Advancing Methane to Markets
– India: Redesigning a Municipal Solid Waste System in West Bengal
– Brazil: The Fortaleza Initiative
– Mexico: Developing Cost-Effective Methane Recovery Models
– Ukraine: Improving Coal Mine Safety Through Underground Methane Capture
– Methane to Markets Project Highlights from EPA
ANNOUNCEMENT
– USAID Call for Public-Private Alliance Proposals for Methane to Markets Partnership
– Stay Tuned: 4 day infrastructure course
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
– Liberia: Small Light Today, Big Light Tomorrow!
SPECIAL REPORT
TRANSFORMATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM THE ENERGY TRANSITION IN EUROPE AND EURASIA
– Europe and Eurasia Energy Regulatory Development: From National to Regional
– Power Sector Reform and Privatization: Observations from Ukraine, Moldova, and Bulgaria
– Romania Electricity Sector Restructuring and Privatization
– Energy Reforms in the Caucasus Region
– Energy Restructuring and Privatization in Macedonia and Albania
– Caspian Pipeline Startup Highlights USAID Leadership in Regional Cooperation and Global Energy Security
– E&E Energy Efficiency Programs
– Southeast Europe Regional Investment
– A Central-South Asia Energy Corridor
– Regional Energy Market Development: The Athens Energy Community
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
– World Bank’s GPOBA Approves First USAID Project
NEWS & EVENTS UNCSD 15: Focus on Energy
– Addressing Climate Change through Better Governance: Forestry and Electricity
SPECIAL REPORT
FUELING HEALTH SOLUTIONS: THE ENERGY-HEALTH NEXUS
Energy for Improved Health Care Service Delivery
– The View from Maternal Health
– Energy and Health: Fatal Consequences
– Partnering with PEPFAR
– Powering Health: Electrification Options for Rural Health Centers
– Energy Efficiency in Hospitals
Energy for Clean Water and Better Health
– Energy, Clean Water, and Health
– Power for Water
– Testing Solar Water Pumps
Energy, Air Pollution, and Disease
– Household Energy and Health
– Reducing Indoor Smoke and Illness for Women and Children: A Model Project in Peru
– The Health Effects of Fuel and Vehicle Emissions in Developing Countries
– Understanding Air Pollution Levels in Accra and the Links to Health
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
– Monrovia Lights Up: A First Step in Liberia’s Stabilization
SPECIAL REPORT
GLOBAL INTERCONNECTIONS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE WORLD FORUM ON ENERGY REGULATION III
– Investment in Energy Infrastructure
– Regional Energy Markets
– Access and Affordability
– Regulatory Partnership Summit
– Roundtable on Consumer Issues and the Energy Sector
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
– The Southern African Power Pool: USAID supports regional energy integration through institutional development
NEWS & EVENTS
– Kevin Warr Departs USAID
– India-Sri Lanka Electricity Interconnection
– Nigeria: Bayelsa, USAID, Shell to Raise $25 Million for Niger Delta
SPECIAL REPORT
ENERGY: ENABLING PEACE AND SECURITY IN CONFLICT-AFFECTED COUNTRIES
– An Interview with USAID’s Gordon Weynand
– Restoring Electricity Service in Afghanistan
– Energy, Protection, Conflict and the Environment in Darfur
– Repowering Southern Sudan: Peace Dividends Begin to Pay Off
– Electricity Support Program Aims to Restore Infrastructure and Increase Citizen Involvement in Angola
– The Struggle for Power and Light in Iraq: An Interview with Krista Donaldson, former AAAS fellow
– AMORE Program: Lighting the Way to Peace and Development in Mindanao, Philippines
– Internally Displaced Persons Employed Through Nepal’s Hydropower Development Program
– Enguri Hydropower Plant Rehabilitation in the Abkhazian Conflict Zone, Republic of Georgia
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
– The Southern African Power Pool: Milestones to Private Sector Investment in Southern Africa
NEWS & EVENTS
– Sharon Hsu Joins USAID/EGAT/Energy Team
SPECIAL REPORT
USAID AND PARTNERS SHOWCASE ENERGY ACTIVITIES AT THE 14TH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
– U.S. Government / USAID’s Participation At CSD-14
– CSD-14 Events, Outcomes, and Useful Links
– “Moving Forward On Energy At The CSD%rdquo; – An interview with U.S. State Department’s Jonathan Margolis
– Partnership Fair Events
– Learning Center Events
– Side Events
– Aid Effectiveness in the Energy Sector: A Gender Perspective
FEATURE ARTICLE
– Clean Power for Trade and Investment in West Africa
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
– Philippine Development Innovation Marketplace: Development with Equity
NEWS & EVENTS
– USAID’s Jacqueline Schafer Receives International Energy Leadership Award
– USAID to Promote Integration of South and Central Asian Energy Markets
– USAID Energy Programs Highlighted in Testimony to U.S. Congress
COMMENTS & QUIBBLES
– Response to “Making Room for Public Interests,” Energy Update, March/April 2006
SPECIAL REPORT
MAKING ROOM FOR PUBLIC INTERESTS IN ELECTRICITY SECTOR DECISION-MAKING:
NEW APPROACHES AND INSIGHTS FOR THE GOVERNANCE CHALLENGE
– The Electricity Governance Toolkit
– Building Analytic Capacity in Karnataka, India
– Empowering Consumer Participation in Bangladesh
– Georgia NGO Initiatives: Institution Building the Grassroots
– Arusha Conference Urges Bridging the Social Divide
NEWS & EVENTS
– USAID Work in Georgia Recognized at Management Consultancies Association (MCA) Awards
– Patricia Flanagan Transitions to ICT Team
SPECIAL REPORT
THE SOUTH ASIA REGIONAL INITIATIVE FOR ENERGY (SARI/E) – PAST AND FUTURE:
THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF ENERGY SECURITY IN SOUTH ASIA
– Facilitating Cross Border Energy Trade
– Improving Electricity Access and Services
FEATURE ARTICLE
– Helping Georgia Weather the January 2006 Energy Crisis
NEWS & EVENTS
– USAID Signs New Global Development Alliance with General Electric
– World Bank Presentation: Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid
CALENDAR
– United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development – Focus on Energy
– World Bank Energy Week 2006
CALENDAR
– United Nation Commission on Sustainable Development: Focus on Energy in 2006-2007
– World Bank Energy Week 2006
SPECIAL REPORT
GLOBAL VILLAGE ENERGY PARTNERSHIP (GVEP):
INCREASING ACCESS TO MODERN ENERGY SERVICES
– Brazil’s Light for All Program and GVEP Action Plan
– Journalists Participate in GVEP Partners’ Assembly and Media Training Workshop
– GVEP Action Program Fund (GAPfund) Launched
– Increasing Access to Microfinance for Energy Services
– Senegal GVEP Action Plan Wins Award
FEATURE ARTICLES
– Effects of Oil Prices on Electric Utilities
– Oil Prices Predicted to Stay High
NOTES FROM THE FIELD – PROJECT UPDATES
– Improving Access to Heat in Armenia
– South East Europe Energy Integration
NEWS & EVENTS
– New Global Development Alliance with International Copper Association
– New Eco Energy Alliance
– Long Term Energy Outlook
– Obituary: Matthew Buresch
– Mark Murray Joins PDAM
– Energy Team Reorganization
CALENDAR
– United Nation Commission on Sustainable Development: Focus on Energy in 2006-2007
– World Bank Energy Week 2006
SPECIAL REPORT
THE ROLE OF REGULATION IN EXPANDING ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY
– The Dominican Republic: A Test Case for Restructuring
– The Role of Regulation in Expanding Access to Electricity: Reform in the Philippines
– Improving Access to Electricity through Sound Public-Private Partnerships: Central America
– The Regulator’s Role in Promoting Electricity Access: Perspectives from NARUC
– An Examination of Pro-Poor Regulatory Design and Stakeholder Participation
– Donor Workshop on Electricity Access in Africa
FEATURE ARTICLE
– Building an Effective Regulator in Egypt
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
– Program updates from Zambia, South Asia, Africa, Bangladesh, and the Eastern Caribbean.
RECENT EVENTS
– USAID’s Weynand elected to GVEP Board of Directors.
SPECIAL REPORT
GOVERNANCE, TRANSPARENCY, RESOURCE FLOWS
– Resource Flows - Oil and Gas Revenues: Managing a Mixed Blessing
– Transparency
– Case Study 1: Trinidad & Tobago
– Case Study 2: Kazakhstan Must Find Cure for Dutch Disease
FEATURE ARTICLES
– EITI aims for proper accounting of revenues from extractive industries
– Extractive Industry Review: World Bank
– Bottom of the Barrel: Africa’s Oil Boom and the Poor
– How High Oil Prices Impact the Global Economy
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
– USAID Partners with BP to Develop Indonesia’s Energy Resources
– Angola to Improve Transparency in Oil and Gas Sector
RECENT EVENTS
– USAID’s Belt Addresses US Energy Association Annual Meeting
– New Program Manager for South Asia Regional Initiative/Energy
SPECIAL REPORT
AIR QUALITY
Three articles highlight USAID initiatives to mitigate the impacts of ambient and indoor-air pollution caused by rising vehicle usage and domestic fuel consumption in developing countries.
– Cleaning Up Diesel Emissions in Mexico City
– Nepal Pioneers Use of Electric Vehicles
– Developing Sustainable Air Management Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa
NOTES FROM THE FIELD
– Performance Contract to Save Water, Energy in South Africa
– Cooking Cleaner in Bangladesh, Peru
– USAID Facilitates Investment in Energy Conservation in India
– Philippines Hosts Pilot Area for Clean Cities Program
– Energy Efficiency Financing in the Europe & Eurasia Region
WHAT’S NEW
– New Task Order Supports Sustainable Municipal Energy Services
– New Global Development Alliance for Efficient Energy Use in the Developing World
– EPA and USAID Promote Grants to Promote Better Home Cooking, Heating Practices
RECENT EVENTS
World Bank’s Energy Week 2005: USAID’s Energy Team Reports Progress in Power Distribution Reform, Slum Electrification
PUBLICATIONS
– Nexus between Energy Sector Reform and Democracy and Governance
– Accelerating Power Distribution Reform
– Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Programs
– Innovative Approaches to Slum Electrification
CALENDAR
– Infrastructure and Economic Growth Course
FEATURE ARTICLE
INFRASTRUCTURE TO APPLICATION: USAID IN REGIONAL ENERGY INTEGRATION
– West Africa Gas Pipeline Project
– Energy Community for Southeast Europe (ECSEE)
– Promoting Standards through Harmonization - CLASP Incorporates as Stand-alone, Nonprofit Corporation
UPDATE FROM MISSIONS
– USAID/Nepal: Increasing Private Sector Investments in Hydropower Development
– Rwanda: Women Empowered Through Biomass Energy Production
RECENT EVENTS
– EGAT/Energy Team Sponsors Course on “Infrastructure Policy and Regulation”
– 2004 World Energy Outlook
– Message to Missions
FEATURE ARTICLES
– Shedding Light on Sustainability
– Ecological Equilibrium on the Mesoamerican Reef
– Luz Para Todos: Electricity for All by 2008
– USAID Awards Grant to Solar Light for Africa, Ltd.
– Methane to Markets International Partnership
– Caribbean Utility Regulators Annual Meeting
– Supporting Private Sector Development in Energy in Namibia
– Global Regulatory Network in the News
RECENT EVENTS
– Development Credit Guarantee Approved for Central American Renewable Energy and Cleaner Production Facility
– Energy and Development Handbook for Journalists
– Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Programs: International Experience and Best Practices
– Global Development Alliance Award for Chevron-Texaco and Non-Profit Partners
FEATURE ARTICLES
– USAID’S Experience in Institutional Reform in the Energy Sector
– Project Spotlight: Russia - Forest Resources and Technologies at Work
– Project Spotlight: India - Indian Village Uses Biofuel as Replacement for Diesel
– Clean Energy Initiative - Message from EGAT/EIT/Energy Team on OPIN Reporting
RECENT EVENTS
– World Energy Congress: Delivering Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for the Energy Industry
– Gordon Weynand Highlights U.S. Energy Partnership at 2004 World Energy Congress
– Seminar on Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance Programs – International Experience and Best Practice
– Second Annual Global Regulatory Network Conference
– Foundations Course in Utility Regulation in Africa
– South Asia Regional Initiative/Energy - Wind Mapping in Sri Lanka
ENERGY TEAM NEWS
– EGAT/EIT/Energy Team Announces New Awards
MAIN ARTICLE
– New Director for Office and Energy and Information Technology
PROJECTS SPOTLIGHT
– Uganda: EGAT/Energy Team Supports Solar Electrification of African Clinic where AIDS was Discovered
– India: Electrifying 230,000 Households in Ahmedabad
– India: Public Understanding and Participation – Safe and Legal Connections for Consumers in Slum Communities in New Delhi
– Mali: Feasibility Study for Agricultural Waste-to-Energy
– Southern Africa: Increasing Journalists’ Understanding of Energy & Environmental Issues
FEATURE ARTICLES
– Methane to Markets: New Bush Administration Initiative
– Southern Africa: Impact of HIV/AIDS on Energy Sector
– The Presidential Clean Energy Initiative
RECENT EVENTS
– Global Village Energy Partnership Announces New Host and Manager
– USEA, California, and Washington Distribution Companies Share Best Practices with Dhaka Electricity Supply Company of Bangladesh
NEW REPORTS
– Energy and Environment Training Program (EETP) Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC) Report
ENERGY TEAM NEWS
– New Energy Pages on Agency’s Website
– USAID Funds Eritrean Participants to Attend Geothermal Resources Council Annual Meeting
– Development Credit Authority (DCA) Review Board Approves Two Energy Activities
PROJECTS SPOTLIGHT
– Zambia: Public Health and Safety in Zambia Linked to Electricity Problems
– Honduras: La Esperanza Hydroelectric Plant
– Philippines: Alliance for Mindanao Off-Grid Renewable Energy (AMORE)
– West African Power Pool (WAPP)
RECENT EVENTS
– Workshop on Innovative Approaches to Slum Electrification
– International Energy Partnership Volunteers Honored
– USAID/Peru and EGAT/EIT Collaborate on Training Energy Service Companies on Market Opportunities for Energy Efficiency and Energy Project Structuring
– Clean Energy Initiative Showcased at 12th Session of the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development
UPCOMING EVENTS
– USEA/USAID Workshop on Southern African Trade: The Economic Development Benefits of Low Cost Electric Power and Electric Utility Strategies to Combat HIV/AIDS
THE PRESIDENTIAL CLEAN ENERGY INITIATIVE
– Fiscal 2004 First and Second Quarter Reporting on the Clean Energy Initiative
NEW TECHNICAL REPORTS
– Increasing Energy Access in Developing Countries: The Role of Distributed Generation
FEATURE ARTICLES
– Energy Team News
– Recent Events: Symposium on Public Understanding and Participation in Energy
– Outreach Products
– Technical Reports
THE PRESIDENTIAL CLEAN ENERGY INITIATIVE
– Guidance for Reporting on the Clean Energy Initiative
– Capacity Building Assistance for Zambia’s Participation in the Global Village Energy Partnership
– Update on Zambia’s Participation In the Global Village Energy Partnership
PROJECTS SPOTLIGHT
– EGAT/EIT/ Energy Team Assists the Private Sector in Nicaragua to Increase Energy Access
– USAID/Russia: Forest Resources and Technology Project
– USAID/Guatemala and EGAT/EIT Collaborate on Using Renewable Energy to Support Economic Growth in Rural Areas of Guatemala
IN THE NEWS
– USAID/Brazil featured in Frontlines Magazine
ENERGY TEAM NEWS
– Energy Team under New Leadership
– New Staff
– Patricia Flanagan new Rural Energy Services Program leader
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO MISSIONS (OCT 2003 – JAN 2004)
NEW CONTRACT MECHANISMS
– New Energy Technical Assistance Indefinite Quantity Contract Awards
– New People, Energy and Development (PED) IQC Awards
PROJECTS SPOTLIGHT
– Improving Electrical Access in Informal Urban Settlements in India
– Providing Access to Energy in Brazil’s Amazon for Telecenters
INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP
– Clean Energy Initiative (CEI)
– Clean Energy Initiative – FY 03 Results
OUTREACH EFFORTS
– Global Village Energy Partnership
– The Use of Modern Technology in Agricultural Practices for Sustainable Development of Desert Areas in Egypt
– Taking Power: Social Dynamics of the Energy Sector
UPCOMING EVENTS
– Symposium on Public Understanding and Participation in Energy
NEW TECHNICAL REPORTS
– United States Energy Association and USAID Energy Partnership Assessment
– “Angola Energy Sector Needs Assessment: Emergency Response Study,” and “Mid-Long Term Vision and Needs Assessment”
