Case Studies

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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Exchange: Survey of Suppliers and Practitioners: Load Controllers Available for Micro-Hydro Projects in South and Southeast Asia

The applicants propose a multi-lateral, output-based technical development knowledge exchange for a technical component, the load controller

Integrating Watershed Development and Conservation in the Ancestral Forests of Ulu Papar

In this project, Green Empowerment and Tonibung seek to improve the socioeconomic and environmental well being of the villages of Pongobonon, Lokogungan and Kalangaan in Malaysia.

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy for Food Drying Processing in Rural Agricultural Cooperatives

To strengthen the fruit exporting sector in Burkina Faso and Eritrea through the introduction of solar based energy efficiency measures and quality improvement technologies

Energy efficiency improvement of city street lighting in India

To demonstrate the energy saving potential which exists in city street lighting system by retrofitting a part of existing street lighting system

Combined pico-hydro and PV systems for the electrification of 10 communities in the Andes

To demonstrate the benefits of renewable energies for generating electricity in isolated areas in Peru