The deep economic transformation of
India will be accompanied by rapid growth in passenger and
freight demand and require a transition to more sustainable
transport...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 172689Date: June 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
Understanding the location and potential
of renewable energy resources is a crucial pre-requisite to
their utilization, and to scaling up clean and secure
sources of...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 107219Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Knight,Oliver
As the world’s fastest-growing local
energy technology, distributed photovoltaics (DPV) has
upended the traditional paradigm of one-way power flow from
the grid to consumers....
Geographic information systems (GIS)
tools are used to identify areas suitable for the
development of solar photovoltaic (PV) plants. Once the
suitable areas have been...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 150477Date: October 5, 2021
Energy demand in Arab countries
continues to grow at a higher rate than economic growth.
Meeting national electricity demand and exploiting their
significant renewable...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 166033Date: October 1, 2021Author:
Deluque Curiel,Ilka Fabiana ;
Loksha,Victor B. ;
Alsuraih,Waleed Saleh I. ;
Huurdeman,Alexander Johannes ;
Py,Emmanuel ;
Qaradaghi,Mohammed ;
Chattopadhyay,Debabrata ;
Al-Shalabi,Abdulaziz ;
Bowman,Doug ;
Irving,John R. ;
Meier,Peter ;
Kazantseva,Alona
Offshore wind holds tremendous promise
for many emerging markets as a large-scale, clean, reliable
form of new electricity generation with the potential to
stimulate...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 164542Date: September 28, 2021Author:
World Bank
The operational data for utilities
covered by the data platform Utility Performance and
Behavior in Africa Today (UPBEAT) were less widely available
than the data on...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 162987Date: August 16, 2021
The methodical collection of data helps
in monitoring performance of management, staff, and board.
This means appropriate and supporting information systems
must be...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 162985Date: August 16, 2021
Over the 2016-2018 reporting period,
Utility Performance and Behavior in Africa Today (UPBEAT)
gathered data on utilities, both publicly and privately
owned, in countries...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 162988Date: August 16, 2021
For many utilities, the difference
between the recovery of operating costs and the recovery of
operating plus debt-service costs is small. This indicates
that debt-service...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 162986Date: August 16, 2021
Electric utilities are central to the
energy development agenda of Sub-Saharan Africa, as
expressed in Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), which
commits the international...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 162888Date: August 13, 2021Author:
Balabanyan,Ani ;
Semikolenova,Yadviga Viktorivna ;
Singh,Arun ;
A Lee, Min
Electric utilities are central to the
energy development agenda of Sub-Saharan Africa, as
expressed in Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), which
commits the international...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 162888Date: August 12, 2021Author:
Balabanyan,Ani ;
Semikolenova,Yadviga Viktorivna ;
Singh,Arun ;
Lee,Min A
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred
unprecedented economic disruption globally. The full scope
of the virus’s impact on human health and economic activity
remains to be...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 162889Date: August 12, 2021Author:
Balabanyan,Ani ;
Semikolenova,Yadviga Viktorivna ;
Hankinson,Denzel J. ;
Nash, Stephen ;
Parcels, Christopher
Robust corporate governance is vital if
power utilities are to perform well (Irwin and Yamamoto
2004; Foster and Rana 2020). Corporate governance has
internal and external...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 162891Date: August 12, 2021Author:
Semikolenova,Yadviga Viktorivna ;
Driscall,Ian ;
A Lee, Min
The level of performance of an electric
utility is determined by the soundness of its financial
situation, the efficiency of its technology, and the quality
of service...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 162890Date: August 12, 2021Author:
Balabanyan,Ani ;
Hankinson,Denzel J. ;
Nash, Stephen ;
Singh,Arun
The Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) has
been active in Bangladesh since 2012. In 2013, they convened
stakeholder consultations to develop and launch the
Bangladesh Country...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 161092Date: June 28, 2021Author:
Bhattacharjee,Tanuja ;
Bairiganjan,Sreyamsa
This document offers guidelines for the
preparation of feasibility studies for geothermal power
projects in accordance with best industry practices. A
geothermal feasibility...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 161953Date: June 18, 2021Author:
Hallgrimsdottir,Elin ;
De Wit,Joerie Frederik ;
Fridriksson,Thrainn ;
Ingimundarson, Ari ;
Axelsson, Gudni ;
Steingrimsson, Benedikt ;
Ingason, Ingi ;
Arnason, Olafur
The objective of this study is to
support the government of Armenia to identify the
constraints and develop a financing roadmap for mobilization
of private and commercial...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 160659Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Zalinyan,Emil ;
Kochnakyan,Artur
The paper presents the nine country
cases and draws lessons in the concluding section.
Indonesia, which is the only country in this paper that has
retained universal...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 161535Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Kojima,Masami
Recent household surveys from 52
developing economies that include questions about energy use
show that the most commonly cited primary energy for cooking
is wood, followed...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 161536Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Kojima,Masami
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