Documentos e informes
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Household Energy for Cooking : Project design principles (Inglés)
Reliance on solid fuels for cooking is an indicator of energy poverty. Access to modern energy services - including electricity and clean fuels - is important for achieving the Millennium Development Goals...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 90274 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2013 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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Carbon capture and storage in developing countries : a perspective on barriers to deployment (Inglés)
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) could have significant impact as a carbon mitigation technology in greenhouse gas- (GHG-) emitting industries. Given the nascence of CCS technology, with only eight large-scale...
Tipo de documento: Estudio sobre la energía Número del informe: 64543 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kulichenko,Nataliya,Ereira,Eleanor Charlotte
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Transmission expansion for renewable energy scale-up emerging lessons and recommendations (Inglés)
The report is structured in two parts. Part one focuses on describing why providing transmission services for renewable energy represents a new challenge, as well as reviewing some of the approaches different...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 69199 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Madrigal,Marcelino,Stoft,Steven E.
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Regulatory and financial incentives for scaling up concentrating solar power in developing countries (Inglés)
Concentrating solar thermal (CST) technologies have a clear potential for scaling up renewable energy at the utility level, thereby diversifying the generation portfolio mix, powering development, and...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 63670 Fecha del documento: 1 de junio de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kulichenko,Nataliya,Wirth,Jens
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Design and performance of policy instruments to promote the development of renewable energy : emerging experience in selected developing countries (Inglés)
In the early 1990s, developing countries started to introduce different incentives to promote renewable energy investments, especially feed-in tariff policies. Today, more than 30 developing countries...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 63214 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2011 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Elizondo Azuela,Gabriela,Barroso,Luiz Augusto Nobrega
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Impacts of transmission and distribution projects on greenhouse gas emissions (Inglés)
The Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change (SFDCC) approved in 2008 guides and supports the operational response of the World Bank Group (WBG) to new development challenges posed by climate...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 63215 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2010 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Madrigal,Marcelino,Spalding-Fecher,Dennis Randall
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Reforming power markets in developing countries : what have we learned? (Inglés)
This paper broadly follows the structure of the World Bank's Operational Guidance Note (OGN) for Public and Private Roles in the Supply of Electricity Services. Following the overview in chapter 1, the...
Tipo de documento: Estudio sobre la energía Número del informe: 38017 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Besant-Jones,John E.
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Electrification and regulation : principles and a model law (Inglés)
The paper presents one of the first systematic attempts at defining workable regulatory systems that will help rather than hinder electrification with emphasis on off-grid electrification. It does this...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 38328 Fecha del documento: 1 de julio de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Reiche,Kilian A.,Tenenbaum,Bernard W.,Torres de Mästle, Clemencia
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Energy policies and multi-topic household surveys : guidelines for questionnaire design in living standards measurement studies (Inglés)
This report begins by examining the characteristics and relative merits of living standards measurement studies (LSMS) and specialized household energy surveys. It then reviews the types of questions currently...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 37479 Fecha del documento: 1 de abril de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Barnes,Douglas French,O'Sullivan,Kyran
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World Bank framework for development of a power market in South East Europe (Inglés)
This Bank framework is motivated by the Athens memorandum and the Treaty whereby countries in South East Europe have agreed to form a regional power market in South East Europe. It outlines challenges...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 37477 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kennedy, David
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Centralized purchasing arrangements : international practices and lessons learned on variations to the single buyer model (Inglés)
By examining the broad range of variations in design and implementation of energy trading models around the world, our evaluation showed that sometimes the pure Single Buyer is actually the only alternative...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 37478 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2006 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Arizu De Jablonski,Beatriz,Gencer,Defne,Maurer,Luiz T. A.
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Lessons from the independent private power experience in Pakistan (Inglés)
The discussion paper recounts the background to the Independent Private Power (IPP) program, describes the "orderly framework" developed by the Bank Group for the IPP workout, and concludes with several...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 33770 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Fraser,Julia M.
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World Bank framework for development of regional energy trade in South East Europe (Inglés)
This Bank framework is motivated by the Athens Memorandum establishing a South East Europe Regional Energy Market (SEEREM). The aim is to outline challenges for successful SEEREM implementation, and to...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 30519 Fecha del documento: 1 de marzo de 2004 Autor: Besant-Jones,John E.,Kennedy, David
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Some options for improving the governance of state-owned electricity utilities (Inglés)
Most government-owned utilities in developing countries perform poorly when judged as providers of electricity, in part because politicians and officials use their power, not to encourage the utilities...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 30518 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2004 Autor: Irwin,Timothy C.,Yamamoto,Chiaki
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Pass through of power purchase costs : Regulatory challenges and international practices (Inglés)
An important, but often ignored, regulatory issue in developing and developed countries is the pass through of power purchase costs for distribution companies. It is important because power purchase costs...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 28082 Fecha del documento: 1 de febrero de 2004 Autor: Arizu De Jablonski,Beatriz,Tenenbaum,Bernard W.,Maurer,Luiz T. A.
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Foreign exchange risk mitigation for power and water projects in developing countries (Inglés)
The objective of this paper is to explain how foreign exchange risk affects power and water infrastructure projects, to analyze the effectiveness of mechanisms that have been used to mitigate foreign exchange...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 28094 Fecha del documento: 1 de diciembre de 2003 Autor: Matsukawa, Romoko,Sheppard,James Robert,Wright,Joseph Daniel
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What international investors look for when investing in developing countries : Results from a survey of international investors in the power sector (Inglés)
The survey results show that despite the decline in private investment in developing countries, international investors remain guardedly interested in these markets and would prefer to see adequate cash...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 28091 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2003 Autor: Saeed,Kazim M.,Lamech,Ranjit J.
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Regulation by contract : A new way to privatize electricity distribution? (Inglés)
In many developing countries, both governments and investors have expressed disappointment with the performance of recently privatized electricity distribution companies. Governments complain that tariffs...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 28092 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2003 Autor: Tenenbaum,Bernard W.,Woolf,Fiona,Bakovic,Tonci R.
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Mitigating regulatory risk for distribution privatization : The World Bank partial risk guarantee (Inglés)
This paper outlines how a World Bank Partial Risk Guarantee (PRG) may be used to promote private sector investment in electricity distribution utilities. The paper explains how a PRG could backstop a government...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 28090 Fecha del documento: 1 de noviembre de 2002 Autor: Mazhar,Farida,Wright,Joseph Daniel,Gupta,Pankaj,Lamech,Ranjit J.
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Economic development, climate change, and energy security : The World Bank's strategic perspective (Inglés)
This paper describes the World Bank Group's strategic perspective on three particularly important challenges related to the supply and use of energy in the new century: economic growth and poverty reduction;...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo (Serie Numerada) Número del informe: 28086 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2002 Autor: Feinstein,Charles M.