Energy enables technology that can improve quality of life for the world’s poorest communities. Access to reliable energy supplies allows women to cook without having to inhale toxic smoke, permits life-saving vaccines to be kept cool and empowers farmers by increasing agricultural yields with irrigation systems.

'This book offers much needed insight into the development and implementation of energy provision. It necessarily goes beyond the technical details required for successful installation of energy infrastructure and draws attention, through useful case studies, to the wider issues of social acceptability, potential for future expansion and development, and environmental consequences. As such it provides an important prompt for any professionals involved in the contemporary energy for development sector.'

Heather Cruickshank, University Lecturer - Sustainable Development, Centre for Sustainable Development, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge