Page content Home Accelerator Labs Publication: Learn from Grassroots Energy Solutions Learning from grassroots energy solutions Menu Our mission PeoplePowered Energy Solutions Shamsina Liter of Light La Caja Verde (The Green Box) 500Rpm Zero Head Hydro Turbine Publication: Learn from Grassroots Energy Solutions Data visualizations: Explore our insights By Satoshi Ganeko By Paul Shapin By Sam Wu By Ellen O'Neill By Sarah Moore Publication Understanding the Transformative Potential of Grassroots Energy Solutions Access to energy remains a concerning challenge for many worldwide, and grassroots innovation presents a valid solution to this challenge. This document presents a comprehensive normative framework for analyzing bottom-up innovations, the Grassroots Thinking Approach. Through this approach, we aim to provide criteria for assessing the contextual factors in which grassroots solutions emerge and exist, the characteristics of the innovation and its goodness of fit or appropriateness within the system that it exists in, and elements for ‘success.’ Download our publication here