Harnessing Energy From the Sun: Empowering Rooftop Owners

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This white paper prepared by IFC, Harnessing Energy from the Sun, is therefore a timely initiative. It addresses the growing interest of developing countries to use grid-connected rooftop solar PV initiatives to provide green power access to large numbers of people, and to review the use of private participation to support their dissemination.

Human Rights and Gender Equality in Health Sector Strategies - How to Assess Policy Coherence

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World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration between WHO, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), 2011

Utility Scale Solar Power Plants: A Guide for Developers and Investors

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This guidebook is a best practice manual for utility-scale solar power plants in India. It focuses primarily on ground mounted, fixed tilt projects and also covers solar tracking system technology.

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seminar on solar PPAs

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The webinar discusses Solar Power Purchase Agreements (SPPA). An SPPA is a financial arrangement in which a third-party developer owns, operates, and maintains a photovoltaic (PV) system and a host customer (i.e., a business, municipal government, or university) agrees to site the system on its roof or elsewhere on its property and purchase the system’s electric output for a pre-determined period (in English).

Solar Power Purchase Agreements: Identifying Risks for Municipalities in Massachusetts

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By Kaitlin Kelly, Ben Mendelson, and Takayuki Suzu, Tufts University, May 2012. This report explores the perceived risks of 18 municipalities in Massachusetts throughout the negotiation of solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with private-sector project developers.