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
Coal plants worldwide are grappling with
low-capacity utilization levels and environmental issues;
and have not only become unprofitable to utilities, but also
uneconomical...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 163332Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Shrimali,Gireesh ;
Jindal,Abhinav
For those who prefer to cook with gas
but are not connected to a natural gas pipeline—and nearly
all rural households fall under this category, liquefied
petroleum gas...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 161537Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Kojima,Masami
Energy Sector Management Assistance
Program (ESMAP) support complemented the World Bank’s Energy
Sector Improvement Project to support Tunisia’s goal to
transition to...
Governments, automotive manufacturers,
energy companies, charging infrastructure operators,
mobility service providers, technology providers and
aggregators across the...
The World Bank initiated the poverty and
social impact assessment (PSIA) as part of the broader
technical and financial assessment of the Serbian district
heating (DH)...
Serbia has adopted extensive reform in
its energy sector over the past two decades as part of a
transition toward more competitive, market-based principles.
Serbian...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 159359Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Gassner,Katharina B. ;
Hofer,Kathrin
The World Bank initiated the poverty and
social impact assessment (PSIA) as part of the broader
technical and financial assessment of the Serbian district
heating (DH)...
Serbia has adopted extensive reform in
its energy sector over the past two decades as part of a
transition toward more competitive, market-based principles.
Serbian...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 159359Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Gassner,Katharina B.
Serbia has adopted extensive reform in
its energy sector over the past two decades as part of a
transition toward more competitive, market-based principles.
Serbian...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 159359Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Gassner,Katharina B. ;
Hofer,Kathrin
The objectives of the report are: to
establish a general understanding of climate change, its
causes, and adverse impacts to development and transport;
give an overview...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 157541Date: March 18, 2021Author:
Darido,Georges Bianco
The objective of the report is to
present the state of the underheating in Georgia and to
quantify the economic costs of underheating. It presents
estimates of the economic...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 157733Date: March 1, 2021Author:
Melitauri,Joseph ;
Pargal,Sheoli ;
Kochnakyan,Artur ;
Wilkinson,Paul Daryll ;
Cropper,Maureen L. ;
Moroshkina,Nino V. ;
Tuntivate,Voravate ;
Sivaram,Anusuya ;
Georgieva,Sophia V.
Cities are getting hotter as a result of
growing urbanization and global climate change. The negative
impacts of temperature increases are significant and touch
nearly...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 151018Date: February 19, 2021Author:
Shickman,Kurt
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...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 156842Date: February 19, 2021Author:
ESMAP
This diagnostic note identifies the
behavioral barriers inhibiting uptake and sustained use of
solar home systems (SHS) in Ethiopia. The target beneficiary
is off-grid,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 156916Date: February 2, 2021Author:
De Martino,Samantha Ashley
In 2019, the World Bank launched an
initiative to apply principles from behavioral economics to
clean energy access for increased uptake of off-grid
photovoltaic Solar...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 156906Date: February 1, 2021Author:
Sousa Lourenco,Joana Isabel ;
De Martino,Samantha Ashley ;
Kundu,Sayan ;
Coony,Jonathan D'Entremont
The present diagnostic examines the
behavioral barriers to uptake and sustained use of ethanol
cookstoves in Madagascar. The target beneficiaries are
households in rural,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 156917Date: February 1, 2021Author:
De Martino,Samantha Ashley ;
Sousa Lourenco,Joana Isabel ;
Coony,Jonathan D'Entremont ;
Elven,Sarah Elise
Households in refugee settlements in
Uganda continue to rely on kerosene, dry cell battery
torches, and firewood to meet their lighting and other
energy needs despite...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 156920Date: February 1, 2021Author:
De Martino,Samantha Ashley ;
Sousa Lourenco,Joana Isabel ;
Yagman,Ece ;
Coony,Jonathan D'Entremont
Households in rural Senegal continue to
rely on flashlights and candles for lighting despite the
availability of solar home system options in the market.
Multiple behavioral...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 156919Date: February 1, 2021Author:
Sousa Lourenco,Joana Isabel ;
De Martino,Samantha Ashley ;
Coony,Jonathan D'Entremont ;
Bijlani,Diksha
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