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Why Off-Grid Energy Matters 2026

Our report built on interviews with 28,000+ energy customers from 30 countries, with the headline question: what actually turns energy access into impact?

60dB Energy Awards

Introducing the Social Impact Award winners of the Energy Indexes, the world’s largest body of customer feedback about the impact of off-grid energy.

Why Off-Grid Energy Matters

Explore three editions of global off-grid energy findings. Each edition highlights both where the sector is delivering meaningful impact and where further progress is needed to deepen and sustain it.

Powering Change: Women Entrepreneurs at the Heart of the Energy Transition

We spoke with 1,166 women entrepreneurs participating in ENERGIA’s Phase 7 Women’s Economic Empowerment Programme across Asia and Africa to understand how access to clean energy opportunities is shaping their businesses, households, and communities.

Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa (BGFA) Aggregate Report

60 Decibels conducted an assessment on the impact of BGFA-financed companies providing electricity access to rural users in Sub-Saharan Africa to assess impacts on end users’ quality of life. Here's what we found.

Powering Progress: The Impact of Mini-Grids in Sheder Refugee Camp

Humanitarian Energy’s mini-grid in Sheder Refugee Camp is enabling 99% of users to shift from traditional fuels, with 91% feeling safer as a result.

Webinar: Falling Behind – Defaulted Customers

With support from Good Energies Foundation, we ran a webinar digging into the insights of our latest report: Falling Behind: Defaulted Customers.

Falling Behind: Defaulted Customers

Explore 1,400+ customer voices across 5 countries on why customers default, their experiences, and how companies can respond.

Investors find child-lens impact through interviews with customers (ImpactAlpha)

Lindsay Smalling (60dB) and Erin Egan (UNICFEF USA's Impact Fund for Children) explore where impact on children is already apparent in three major sectors: off-grid energy, agriculture, and microfinance.

Improving livelihoods with ‘productive use appliances’ and other off-grid innovations

Though electrification rates are growing, growth remains uneven, particularly in Africa. At the 2024 Global Off-Grid Solar Forum in Nairobi, investors talked risk mitigation, blended finance and opportunities for growth.

Consumer Financing Brief 2024

In collaboration with GOGLA, this Brief provides a summary of consumer financing models and practices in the off-grid energy sector, with insights from 59 off-grid energy companies.

Drivers of Income: A study of three social enterprises and how they impact earning

Our latest report with Acumen investigates how specific products & services influence drivers of income for MSMEs. It highlights insights from customer surveys of 3 innovative companies in Acumen’s portfolio.

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Why Off-Grid Energy Matters 2026

60dB Energy Awards

Why Off-Grid Energy Matters

Powering Change: Women Entrepreneurs at the Heart of the Energy Transition

Beyond the Grid Fund for Africa (BGFA) Aggregate Report

Powering Progress: The Impact of Mini-Grids in Sheder Refugee Camp

Webinar: Falling Behind – Defaulted Customers

Falling Behind: Defaulted Customers

Investors find child-lens impact through interviews with customers (ImpactAlpha)

Improving livelihoods with ‘productive use appliances’ and other off-grid innovations

Consumer Financing Brief 2024

Drivers of Income: A study of three social enterprises and how they impact earning

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