Restio Energy’s focus is on the improvement of clean energy service delivery to all (rural, off-grid and urban) communities. This activity covers the fields of renewable energy, liquid fuels, biomass and energy efficiency for both electric power and thermal energy. The company also has a strong interest in the area of climate change mitigation. Five areas of focus emerge:

• Clean Energy Delivery
• Energy Policy and Planning
• Productive Use of Energy
• Socio-economics of Energy Consumption
• Social Enterprises

We offer a range of services within the above areas including:

• Market development for social enterprises in the clean energy sector.  
• Rural energy service planning and implementation support.
• Technical design, development of technical solutions, and assessments of most appropriate technology/need fit.
• Project design, development and planning, feasibility studies, technical assistance to or review of implementation processes/evaluation.
• Socio-economic studies and analyses of impacts and implications for energy change and climate change.
• Policy research in rural energy and sustainable energy (including regional energy supply scenarios and carbon funding).
• Enterprise development services/productive use of energy.

Restio Energy also delivers a range of environmentally-friendly products that stand to benefit a broad range of consumers:

• Efficient biomass rocket stoves
• Hot Boxes
• The unplugged Slow Cooker
• Productive Use Containers
• These are shipping containers custom designed for customers' needs and fitted with renewable solar power. These containers can be placed literally anywhere and can be converted into business units, processing sites, community service centers etc.
• Micro-solar lighting- and cellphone charging devices.