This Toolkit is intended to assist World Bank Energy and Safeguards teams with analyzing E&S risks in the off-grid solar sector and adopting appropriate safeguards. This Toolkit will help project teams...
In its Business Plan FY25-30, Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) aims to support client countries on three overarching objectives: (i) ensure universal access to affordable, reliable...
Pakistan is facing a large deficit in electricity supply. A report published by the Government of Pakistan (GoP) in 2013 showed that the electricity supply-demand gap has continuously grown over the past...
This report is prepared within phase one of the project renewable energy resource mapping for the Republic of the Maldives. This part of the project focuses on solar resource mapping and measurement services...
This model validation report presents results of preliminary validation of solar resource and meteorological modelled data, within phase one of the project renewable energy resource mapping for the Republic...
The objective of this study is to analyze the opportunities and strategic options available to the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB) to implement the hydropower projects included in its power master plan...
The study aims to present information about specific countries which have initiated gas distribution projects rather than suggestions. However, by drawing on the experience of a large number of countries...
The rise in oil prices and the associated increase in the prices of petroleum products that has occurred since the beginning of 2004 are having adverse effects on the users of petroleum products in all...
Este informe resume los procedimientos de la Conferencia Regional sobre Energía y Reducción de la Pobreza de la Alianza de Energía Comunal para América Latina y el Caribe (GVEP-LAC), cuyo objetivo es compartir...
This report presents a summary of current projects status and actions in the portfolio for the Joint UNDP/World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) for the period ending July - December...
This report presents findings on the ESMAP-funded Central America Gender and Sustainable Energy project. The project has provided support to the Mesoamerican Gender in Sustainable Energy (GENES) Network...
This report presents findings on the ESMAP-funded Central America Gender and Sustainable Energy project. The project has provided support to the Mesoamerican Gender in Sustainable Energy (GENES) Network...
This report presents the status of ongoing projects in the portfolio for the Joint UNDP/World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) for the six-month period ending June 30, 2004. Its...
This report reviews the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) activities in rural and renewable energy (RE) from 1997 to 2002 by addressing three questions: (1) what was done, (2) what was...
The study underlines the government's strategic role in promoting proactive gas development schemes, and the drive for change in gas flaring reduction, for better use of Nigeria's gas resources. It is...
Gaps in knowledge about the interface between energy and the environment, were identified sometime in the late 1990s, and a number of studies were then conceived to address this knowledge gap, and advance...
These are the proceedings from the South Asia Practitioners Workshop (SAPW), which presents emerging lessons, and practices from village energy programs, implemented in the region over the last two decades...
The summary reviews the Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) activities in energy efficiency (EE), from 1997 to 2002, and evaluates thematic impacts, and lessons of the ESMAP Energy Efficiency...
This report presents the results of a two-day workshop held April 23-24, 2003, in Berlin, Germany. The purpose of the workshop was threefold: (1) to determine whether the Global Village Energy Partnership...
This review argues that, following the 1997 crisis, the proposed reform plan was helped by some particularly conducive country factors: a tough, but not paralyzing challenge, a quick return to macroeconomic...