Documents & Reports
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Gender, Social Inclusion, and Energy Access in the Horn of Africa Borderlands : A Vantage Point (English)
The objective of this assessment is to identify gender and social inclusion gaps with respect to equitable access to clean and modern energy in the Horn of Africa (HoA) borderlands, specifically in Djibouti...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 197638 Document Date: March 5, 2025 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fowzia Hassan
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Mini Grids for Half a Billion People : Market Outlook and Handbook for Decision Makers (English)
This book is packed with actionable information for decision-makers, and it is the World Bank’s most comprehensive and authoritative publication on mini grids to date. The objective of this comprehensive...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 176319 Document Date: March 17, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Assessing and Mapping Renewable Energy Resources : Second Edition (English)
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 electricity generation such as biomass...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 107219 Document Date: December 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Knight,Oliver
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Understanding Market-Based Solutions and Access to Finance Options for Clean-Cooking Technologies in Bangladesh (English)
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 Action Plan for Clean Cookstoves...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 161092 Document Date: June 28, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bhattacharjee,Tanuja,Bairiganjan,Sreyamsa
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Republic of Armenia : Maximizing Finance for Development in the Power Sector (English)
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 financing in electricity generation...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 160659 Document Date: June 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Zalinyan,Emil,Kochnakyan,Artur
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Setting Tunisia on an Ambitious Pathway for a Sustainable Energy Future (English)
Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) support complemented the World Bank’s Energy Sector Improvement Project to support Tunisia’s goal to transition to a secure, viable, and sustainable...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 159594 Document Date: May 1, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Primer for Cool Cities : Reducing Excessive Urban Heat with a Focus on Passive Measures (English)
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 every aspect of urban life. Protecting...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 151018 Document Date: February 19, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Shickman,Kurt
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What Drives the Transition to Modern Energy Cooking Services? : A Systematic Review of the Evidence (English)
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 combinations are significant...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 156842 Document Date: February 19, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: ESMAP
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Assessing and Measuring the Performance of Energy Efficiency Projects (English)
This report seeks to make a contribution to scaling up energy efficiency through improved planning and design of energy efficiency interventions in the developing countries by starting with the basic management...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 155209 Document Date: December 17, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Cooking with Electricity : A Cost Perspective (Vol. 2 of 2) : Report Summary (English)
Cooking with electricity could make a significant contribution to achieving Sustainable Development Goal No.7 by simultaneously enabling cost-effective access to modern energy and clean cooking, and proposing...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 153151 Document Date: November 18, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: ESMAP
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Integrating Behavior Change in Energy Efficiency Programs in Developing Countries : A Practitioner’s Guide (English)
Energy efficiency is among the cheapest, cleanest, and most widely available of energy resources. Improved energy efficiency provides opportunities to sustainably expand energy services and support development...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 154123 Document Date: November 3, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: ESMAP
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Cooking with Electricity : A Cost Perspective (Vol. 1 of 2) (English)
Cooking with electricity could make a significant contribution to achieving Sustainable Development Goal No.7 by simultaneously enabling cost-effective access to modern energy and clean cooking, and proposing...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 153151 Document Date: September 21, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: ESMAP
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12-Month Site Measurement Report : ESMAP Solar Measurements in Nepal (English)
One complete year of meteorological measurement data was collected at the measurement site in Dharan between July 2018 and June 2019. This report summarizes the station operation during the reported measurement...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 153155 Document Date: September 20, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kraas, Birk,Affolter, Roman
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Global Photovoltaic Power Potential by Country (English)
Solar radiation is essentially a free resource available anywhere on Earth, to a greater or lesser extent. Solar PV power plants convert solar radiation into electricity. In the current era of global climate...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 149846 Document Date: June 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Suri,Marcel,Betak,Juraj,Rosina,Konstantin,Chrkavy,Daniel,Suriova,Nada,Cebecauer,Tomas,Caltik,Marek,Erdelyi,Branislav
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Gender Equality in the Energy Sector Calendar (2020 - 21) (English)
ESMAP/The World Bank presents the Gender Equality in The Energy Sector Calendar (2020-21) to raise awareness on key gender-equality issues in the energy sector and stimulate innovative action across all...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 146661 Document Date: March 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Funding the Sun : New Paradigms for Financing Off-Grid Solar Companies (English)
This report elucidates the role of financial innovation in the off-grid solar sector and provides a roadmap for practitioners, financiers, and entrepreneurs navigating capital raises for companies active...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 146089 Document Date: February 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cogan,Davinia Jane Glendenning,Coony,Jonathan D'Entremont,Hazoury,Alex,Rysankova,Dana,Cosgrove-Davies,Malcolm,Rauchs,Michael,Kludovacz,Tibor,Ziegler,Tania,Zhang,Bryan,Wardrop,Robert,Garvey,Kieran,Rau,Raghavendra,Recanatini,Martino,Rostand,Francois
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Pathways to Power : South Asia Region Baseline Assessment for Women Engineers in the Power Sector (English)
The World Bank is planning to establish a regional network for women practitioners in the power and energy sectors in South Asia (WePOWER) to help expand opportunities for women in energy projects and...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 145541 Document Date: January 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Energy Storage Partnership (ESP) - Fact Sheet (English)
Energy transitions are underway in many countries, with a significant global increase in the use of wind and solar power playing a key role. To integrate renewable resources into grids, energy storage...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 151216 Document Date: January 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Reuse and Recycling : Environmental Sustainability of Lithium-Ion Battery Energy Storage Systems (English)
The call for urgent action to address climate change and develop more sustainable modes of energy delivery is generally recognized. It is also apparent that batteries, both in the transportation and the...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 152864 Document Date: January 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Keskes,Tarek,Drexhage,John Richard,Hund,Kirsten Lori
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Energy Vulnerability in Female-headed Households : Findings from the Listening to Citizens of Uzbekistan Survey (Russian)
Uzbekistan has the second-most-energy-intensive economy in Europe and Central Asia as measured according to energy intensity per unit of gross domestic product. This study assesses the sex-disaggregated...
Document Type: ESMAP Paper Report No.: 145648 Document Date: December 1, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sacks,Audrey,Casabonne,Ursula,Faria,Maria Manuela