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Energy Appliances for the Rwandan Humanitarian Context: Stakeholder Mapping and Consumer Insights

This research explores how efficient appliances, suitable for off-grid areas, can improve the lives of refugees in Rwanda.

20 Aug 2025

The Procurement Handbook for Off- and Weak-Grid Appliances

Practical procurement guidelines for energy appliances suitable for off- and weak-grid communities.

20 Aug 2025

Mepsy Methodology: Model and Approach for Climate Impact Analysis

Take a look behind the scenes and learn more about the calculations, data sources, and assumptions underlying Mepsy, our climate impact calculator.

11 Feb 2025

Bridging the Cooling Gap: Energy Efficiency as a Driver for Appliance Access

Improving cooling appliance efficiency can lower costs, expand access, and enhance climate resilience. By modeling the impacts of efficiency improvements, this paper offers critical insights into policies needed to accelerate adoption and achieve net zero goals.

27 Jan 2025

Leave No One Behind: Bridging the Energy Access Gap with Innovative Off-Grid Solar Solutions

This Efficiency for Access research spotlights the gap in access to life-changing, off-grid solar appliances for millions worldwide. The report highlights the opportunity and steps that governments, entrepreneurs, investors, and other stakeholders have to accelerate sector growth, and the potential business opportunities that can come from this.

24 Sep 2024

Market Assessment Report for Commercial Beverage Coolers in India

This report explores CLASP's market assessment and technical analyses conducted in India to support the development of energy efficiency standards for commercial beverage coolers, also known as visi coolers, under the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, India.

26 Jun 2024

Improving Public Health & Advancing Equity Goals with Appliance Energy Efficiency Standards

Key findings from a recent report estimating the distribution of public health benefits from appliance energy efficiency standards in disadvantaged communities in the United States.

29 Nov 2023

Net Zero Heroes: Scaling Efficient Appliances for Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation & Resilience

In this report, CLASP describes the critical role appliances must play in reaching net zero emissions and enabling a just energy transition.

16 Nov 2023

Keep it Cool: Harnessing Cold Storage to Reduce Food Loss & Support Sustainable Food Systems in Emerging Economies

This Efficiency for Access technology trend brief explores the role of cold storage in reducing food loss and enhancing food security, and highlights organizations that are pioneering these efforts.

11 Oct 2023

Getting Appliances Back on Track: Assessing Progress Towards Global Energy Efficiency Commitments

This report tracks the progress of 15 countries who signed onto the Appliance Efficiency Call to Action in 2021 at COP26 in Glasgow, which pledged to double the energy efficiency of four product categories by 2030.

05 Oct 2023

2023 Tech Trends in Energy Access

Up-to-date market insights for off-grid cooling, cooking and agricultural productive-use appliances, encompassing trends, opportunities, and targeted recommendations for scaling access to efficient technologies.

29 Sep 2023

Market Assessment Report for Chillers in India

This report examines the potential for GHG emissions reduction and energy consumption in India through the adoption of a mandatory efficiency labeling program for chillers in India. CLASP and Environmental Design Solutions provided technical assistance to the Bureau of Energy Efficiency to assess the market for chillers in India.

29 Aug 2023

Market Assessment for Deep Freezers in India

This report delves into the technical assistance provided by CLASP and PwC to India’s Bureau of Energy Efficiency to transition the efficiency policy for deep freezers to a mandatory stage.

12 Jul 2023

Building Resilience in Low-Income Communities – The Role of Off-Grid Appliances

This report examines community resilience in the context of climate change, focusing on the role of off-grid solar products and equipment in supporting low-income communities in sub-Saharan Africa.

12 Jun 2023

Evaluating Appliance Performance in the Field: Results from Appliance Testing

CLASP through Efficiency for Access conducted multi-country field testing to evaluate the technical performance of solar refrigerators, solar water pumps and solar milking machines.

19 Apr 2023

Energy Efficiency in the Favelas

New report reveals insights about the intersection of energy, poverty and efficiency in favelas across Rio de Janeiro.

18 Apr 2023

Water and Energy Justice in the Favelas

CLASP assisted Catalytic Communities in a youth-run research project aimed at training low-income favela residents in the full arc of research, including how to use data to address compounding water and energy crises in Rio.

07 Apr 2023

Key Cold Chain Infrastructure Markets

These reports evaluate the cold chain technology markets in India, Kenya and Nigeria. Each report identifies current trends, barriers and opportunities for market transformation, as well as strategies to accelerate the adoption of cold chain technologies for fresh food value chains at scale.

20 Mar 2023