Overview of renewable energy and energy efficiency - unido

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REGULATION AND POLICYMAKING TRAINING MANUALpage 1.28An enterprise that generates income up to a certain pre-defined limit.Renewable energyRenewable energytechnologies (RETs)Small and microenterprisesSmall hydroSolar collectorSolar thermaltechnologiesSolar water heatersSub-Saharan AfricaNon-fossil and non-nuclear energy sources, i.e. wind, solargeothermal, wave, tidal, hydropower, biomass, landfill gas,sewage treatment plant gas and biogases.Technologies using renewable energy.Small-scale power generating systems that harness the powerof falling water (1-15 MW).A device which is capable of absorbing solar radiation andconverting it into some other form of energy.Devices that use the sun as the primary source of energy forheat appliances, e.g. solar water heaters, solar dryers.Devices that use solar energy to heat water for domestic,institutional, commercial and industrial use.All African countries north of the Republic of South Africa andsouth of the North African countries (Algeria Egypt, LibyanArab Jamahiriya, Morocco, Tunisia).Sustainable energy General term encompassing both renewable energy andenergy efficiency.Traditional energyTraditional stovesWind pumps/millsWind turbinesWood stovesLow quality and inefficient sources of energy, predominantlybiomass in nature and not often traded (e.g. wood fuel, cropresidues and dung cakes).Inefficient heating and cooking devices that use firewood,charcoal and other biomass based fuels.Devices that use wind energy to lift water from undergroundsources.Devices used to generate electricity using kinetic energy fromwind.Heating and cooking devices that use firewood as the mainfuel.