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PureSIG - The Special Interest Group on the Productive Use of Renewable Energy


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PureSIG
Established in March 2008, PureSIG connects all those engaged in the productive use of energy and renewable energy in developing countries.

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The role of energy in poverty reduction is generally considered to be positive. However, practise often defeats theory when energy projects have attemped to contribute to the Millennium Development Goal 1: The link between energy supply and increased opportunities for income generation for the poor. Not only does this topic recieve very little attention from national governments who tend to focus on large scale energy supply especially for energy intensive industry, but also from practitioners in the field of small scale energy supply. The term productive uses of energy is commonly used for income generation by selling energy or energy technologies, and sometimes in a broad sense, including energy services to schools and health services. Both uses of of the term "productive uses" divert attention away from the potentially huge, but in practice small, contribution of modern (renewable) energy to income generation in small enterprises by the poor themselves.

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PureSIG specifically aims to:
  • Connect people and organisations working on the productive use of renewable energy
  • Support high quality business, government and NGO networking
  • Connect people that know and people wanting to learn, promoting increased and more effective cooperation between stakeholders. Promote the building of innovative partnerships for knowledge creation and programme implementation.
  • Provide a framework to increase the profile and effectiveness of existing and future knowledge resources (websites, newsletters, projects, meetings etc.) of the stakeholders active in the Productive Use of Energy.

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  • PureSIG connects members from around the world through an email discussion list. Members have access to the list archives and other member resources

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  • PureSIG connects members from around the world through an email discussion list. Members have access to the list archives and other member resources

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There are currently 133 members in PureSIG. - See the Members page for the list of current members.

[top] [end]How to join

  1. Sign in to HEDON using your username and password here. If you are not already a member, Join the Network here.
  2. Under the usercentre, click on Subscribe for the PureSIG.
User:Wikus Kruger 22 February 2008

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