Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) guidelines

Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) guidelines published in 2013 provide recommendations on the best practices to promote energy efficiency. The average climatic conditions across the entire country is temperate tropical highland where daily temperature ranges between 12°C (54°F) and 27°C (81°F) . This provides an opportunity to do away with the need for room air conditioning and employ natural ventilation, utilisation of shading and improvement in building technologies.