This book showcases how small-scale renewable energy technologies such as solar panels, cookstoves, biogas digesters, microhydro units, and wind turbines are helping Asia respond to a daunting set of energy governance challenges. Using extensive original research this book offers a compendium of the most interesting renewable energy case studies over the last ten years from one of the most diverse regions in the world.

Benjamin Sovacool and Ira Martina Drupady, both of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

1: Introduction; 2: The Benefits of Renewable Energy Access; 3: Grameen Shakti in Bangladesh; 4: The Renewable Energy Development Project in China; 5: The Rural Electrification Project in Laos; 6: The Rural Electricity Access Project in Mongolia; 7: The Rural Energy Development Project in Nepal; 8: The Energy Services Delivery Project in Sri Lanka; 9: The Village Energy Security Programme in India; 10: The Solar Home Systems Project in Indonesia; 11: The Small Renewable Energy Power Program in Malaysia; 12: The Teachers Solar Lighting Project in Papua New Guinea; 13: Lessons Learned; 14: Conclusion