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Once any project supported by WISIONS is successfully completed it becomes part of our body of case studies. Here, we systematically reflect upon the outcomes and impacts on people’s livelihoods.

Lack of trust in and information about decentralized renewable energy solutions is still a main challenge to accelerating just energy transitions in contexts of the global south. WISIONS case studies provide practical illustrations of what works – and what doesn’t – for driving local sustainable development of people by improving access to clean energy.

With over 130 innovative energy projects completed since WISIONS founding in 2004, we built up a considerable amount of knowledge that is open to use for every researcher and practitioner.

Knowledge Exchanges

A special subtype of projects are knowledge exchanges. Their aim is to facilitate South-South knowledge exchange between practitioners, organisations and other stakeholders. We firmly believe that access to knowledge empowers individuals to become the drivers of their own energy transformations. That's why we have supported nearly 30 exchanges so far.

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Solar Food Processing (Phase II)

The Use of Solar Energy Applications in Sheep Breeding in Georgia

Providing Access to Modern Energy Services in Uganda\'s Rural Areas using Multi Functional Platforms

To provide modern energy services in rural communities through the installation of four multi functional platforms (MFPS) and improve thereby the living

Promotion of improved cooking/heating stoves in Paek District, Xienkhuang Province

To introduce improved stone technology and know-how to areas with wood fuel scarcity, resulting in better living conditions for the local population

Replacing firewood with biogas in Nakuru high schools, Kenya

To replace firewood with biogas technology for providing clean and sustainable energy at Kenyan Boarding Schools

Carbon Credits in Benefit of Andean Solar Villages

Using carbon credits to make solar applications affordable and therewith improve the standards of living in local villages

Cameroon Sustainable Sun Bakeries Program

To introduce the environmentally friendly concept of solar baking while providing opportunities for women to gain their own income

Energy enterprises for development in rural areas: the case of clean cooking fuel

To develop and operate a sustainable rural demonstration project: a community dairy biogas enterprise

Mainstreaming biogas power as an off-grid electricity generating source in Sri Lanka

To develop and establish procedures and mechanisms to make electricity generated from biogas a feasible option for rural off-grid communities in the Sri Lankan dry zone

Efficient Lighting for the University of Mexico

To demonstrate that the improvement of lighting efficiency in universities / public buildings can lead to major electricity and cost savings