Household Energy Policy Repository

The World Health Organization, in partnership with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), developed a Household Energy Policy Repository (“the Repository”) to serve as an online clearinghouse for national, regional and local policies, regulations and legislation affecting household energy use. The Repository summarizes policies targeting cooking, heating, and lighting using clean fuels and technologies including electricity, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), biogas, solar thermal and photovoltaic (PV), ethanol, as well as other options like biomass pellets. The Repository currently includes information on over 120 clean household energy policies or policy statements from more than 30 countries and the European Union (EU), representing all WHO regions. There are also links to more than 30 independent evaluations that assess the impacts of specific policies.