The Plat­form for Ener­gy Access Knowl­edge (PEAK) is a project part­ner­ship between RAEL and Pow­er for All,  a glob­al cam­paign to accel­er­ate the mar­ket-​​based growth of decen­tral­ized renew­ables as the key to achiev­ing uni­ver­sal ener­gy access. The cam­paign, estab­lished in 2014, serves as a col­lec­tive voice for busi­nesses and civ­il soci­ety focused on off-​​grid renew­able solu­tions. The research prod­ucts of this part­ner­ship will pro­vide crit­i­cal evi­dence need­ed to sup­port wide­spread adop­tion of dis­trib­uted technologies.

PEAK is an inter­ac­tive infor­ma­tion exchange plat­form designed to help aggre­gate and repack­age the best research and infor­ma­tion on ener­gy access into com­pelling data-​driv­en sto­ries for a range of tar­get audi­ences to ensure max­i­mum vis­i­bil­i­ty, usabil­i­ty and dis­cov­er­abil­i­ty of that infor­ma­tion by indi­vid­u­als, orga­ni­za­tions and com­mu­ni­ties work­ing to make ener­gy ser­vices acces­si­ble to all.

The Pow­er for All Cam­paign is direct­ed by Kristi­na Skier­ka. PEAK research is direct­ed by Dr. Rebekah Shirley, cur­rent Post­doc­tor­al Researcher at RAEL.

See PEAK’s Launch Press Release, March 2016

See PEAK prod­ucts here and look out for our web por­tal soon to come.

Recent­ly, PEAK con­duct­ed a quan­ti­ta­tive analy­sis that exam­ines the poli­cies of five high-growth mar­kets striv­ing to achieve uni­ver­sal ener­gy access — India and Bangladesh in Asia, and Kenya, Tan­za­nia and Ethiopia in Africa — and high­lights areas for pol­i­cy pri­or­i­ti­za­tion in Low Ener­gy Access coun­tries. Our research is cur­rent­ly under peer-review. See an unpub­lished, draft/​working ver­sion of our man­u­script and look out for more infor­ma­tion soon.