Energy efficiency upgrades to street
lighting systems are a simple way to improve public services
while generating long-term cost savings for municipalities.
Projects...
Population growth and economic
development, aggravated by climate change, will increase
pressure on energy and water resources. Integrated planning
can make the most...
Type: BriefReport#: 94655Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Delgado Martin,Anna ;
Rodriguez,Diego Juan ;
Sohns,Antonia Averill
In Myanmar, 70 percent of the population
and 84 percent of rural households lacked access to grid
electricity in 2014. Achieving the Myanmar Government’s goal
of un...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 100013Date: January 1, 2015
With an installed capacity greater than
137 gigawatts (GWs) worldwide and annual additions of about
40 GWs in recent years, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology
has become...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 99396Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Lumby, Ben
This note is a product of the
Public-Private Partnership Group of the World Bank, and the
Private Participation in Infrastructure Database (PPI
Database). Some of the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 124320Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Kasper,Henry Thomas ;
Saha,Deblina ;
Chao,Jenny Jing
Cogeneration, or Combined Heat and Power
(CHP), is a technology used to produce electricity and heat
from a single source. This allows for up to 90 percent total
efficiency,...
Rising energy costs can lead to higher
production and distribution costs for businesses, eroding
long-term competitiveness and profitability. SMEs are
particularly vulnerable...
Romania made significant progress in
opening its markets to competition and integrating its
economy with the European Union (EU)’s internal market. In
preparation for...
Type: PublicationReport#: 101554Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Aprahamian,Arabela Sena ;
Pop,Georgiana ;
Guanlao,Luisita I. ;
Miralles Murciego,Graciela ;
Popescu,Denisa ;
Reichenbach,Steven ;
Stanescu,Alexandru Cristian ;
Myers,Ronald E. ;
Banha Coelho,Goncalo Miguel ;
Chaparro Yedro,Cesar ;
Moldoveanu,George Alexandru
India - home to one of the world's
largest populations without electricity access - has set the
ambitious goal of achieving universal electrification by
2017. 311 million...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92648Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Mayer, Kristy ;
Banerjee, Sudeshna Ghosh ;
Trimble, Chris
The World Bank's initiatives of
social accountability and transparency over the past two
decades are increasingly founded on the notion that
transparency and social...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 93936Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Araya,Marjorie K. ;
Hassan,Fowzia ;
Penglis, Evangelos ;
Seferiadis, George N.
This is the January 2015 edition of The
World Bank in India newsletter. Topics included in this
edition include the following: jobs and migration key
drivers to reducing...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 95169Date: January 1, 2015
This brief will focus on enabling
regulations for mini-grids, providing an overview of key
issues, options, and good practices. While appropriate
regulations are not...
Roughly 60 percent of Africans lack
access to electricity, negatively impacting development
opportunities. Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have
started promoting...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 100259Date: January 1, 2015Author:
MacLean, Lauren M. ;
Brass, Jennifer N. ;
Carley, Sanya ;
El-Arini,Ashraf Bakry ;
Breen, Scott
This report provides a summary of World
Bank Group (WBG) activities in the extractives industries
(EI) sector in FY2014. The WBG’s objective in the extractive
sector...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 112707Date: January 1, 2015
This report explores the potential
financing mechanism options that can be employed to catalyze
more private sector investment in clean energy (renewable
energy and...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 100835Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Mason,Clive H.J.
Mexico ranks 12th in the world in terms
of total Green House Gas (GHG) emissions and is the second
largest emitter in Latin America. In its national strategy
for climate...
Type: BriefReport#: 81167Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Navarro-Martin,Miguel
Sustainable power supply is an important
precondition for the socio-economic development of
Bangladesh. At present, about 60 percent (including off-grid
renewable) population...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 98618Date: January 1, 2015
The needs of World Bank Group (WBG)
clients have been changing with the private sector
increasingly becoming the engine of growth, and the
governments attention...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 94977Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Kamezawa,Takatoshi ;
Ebiri,Kutlay
Access to energy and economic
development go hand in hand. Improving electricity supply
and distribution boosts economic growth, creates jobs, and
expands the reach...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 108069Date: January 1, 2015
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