In spring 2024, the World Bank and the African Development Bank made a bold commitment: the two organizations are partnering to provide 300 million more people in Sub-Saharan Africa with electricity by...
From Sun to Roof to Grid: The Economics and Policy of Distributed Photovoltaics explores the benefits, challenges, and risks of DPV, with special attention to the economics of its deployment and its uses...
This report presents summary findings from an update of the UPBEAT database. UPBEAT was launched in 2020, presenting data analyzing the performance of Africa’s utilities to 2018. This update reflects new...
Rapid growth of distributed photovoltaics (DPV) has upended how engineers traditionally think about electric power systems. Consumers now increasingly generate their own power and feed it to the grid...
В данном отчете представлены результаты исследований и анализа состояния и тенденций отопления, проведенных в 2022-23 годах. Во время долгих холодных зим, которые бывают во многих странах региона Европы...
This report presents the results of research and analysis on the status and trends of space heating conducted in 2022-23. In the long, cold winters in many parts of the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region...
This report presents the results of research and analysis on the status and trends of space heating conducted in 2022-23. In the long, cold winters in many parts of the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region...
2023 marked ESMAP’s 40th anniversary. Founded in the early 1980s to turn recommendations of the World Bank’s Energy Sector Assessment Reports into concrete measures for implementation by oil-importing...
2023 marked ESMAP’s 40th anniversary. Founded in the early 1980s to turn recommendations of the World Bank’s Energy Sector Assessment Reports into concrete measures for implementation by oil-importing...
The three-prong crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and climate change impacts, created, in the short term, new obstacles to countries’ access to energy and decarbonization. These same developments...
The three-prong crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and climate change impacts, created, in the short term, new obstacles to countries’ access to energy and decarbonization. These same developments...
During this period, ESMAP focused its efforts on addressing three compounded challenges facing developing countries: the COVID crisis; the urgent need to decarbonize; and achieving universal access to...
Some 4 billion people still cook with traditional polluting fuels and technologies. The adverse development impacts from households continued use of polluting stove-and-fuel combinations are significant...
Energy is at the heart of development. It makes possible the investments, innovations, human capital development, and new industries that are the engines of jobs, inclusive growth, and shared prosperity...
Energy is at the heart of development. It makes possible the investments, innovations, human capital development, and new industries that are the engines of jobs, inclusive growth, and shared prosperity...
Cooking with electricity could make a significant contribution to achieving Sustainable Development Goal No.7 by simultaneously enabling cost-effective access to modern energy and clean cooking, and proposing...
Energy efficiency is among the cheapest, cleanest, and most widely available of energy resources. Improved energy efficiency provides opportunities to sustainably expand energy services and support development...
Cooking with electricity could make a significant contribution to achieving Sustainable Development Goal No.7 by simultaneously enabling cost-effective access to modern energy and clean cooking, and proposing...
Progress towards ensuring access to modern cooking solutions, a key component to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), has been slow. Today, 2.8 billion people globally still cook with traditional...
Progress towards ensuring access to modern cooking solutions, a key component to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), has been slow. Today, 2.8 billion people globally still cook with traditional...