ESMAP focused its efforts on addressing three compounded challenges facing developing countries: the COVID crisis; the urgent need to decarbonize; and achieving universal access to electricity during the FY2021 annual report period.
The Energy Storage Academy (ESA) was designed as a space for knowledge-sharing and discussions among government officials from developing countries, energy storage experts, and World Bank staff …
This webinar presented solar cooking applications at the household, institutional, and the displacement settings and brought together perspectives from various stakeholders to discuss types of interventions, lessons learned from past…
Energy-efficient and climate friendly cold storage technologies have the potential to transform the agri-food system, and some World Bank-financed operations – many with ESMAP support - have been supporting counterparts to mainstream these…
In a “first” for a major climate agreement, the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) made explicit references to fossil fuels in the Glasgow Climate Pact and called for accelerated action to phase out inefficient fossil fuel…
Anders Pedersen leads ESMAP’s cybersecurity initiative, which delivers capacity building, technical assistance, and grant support to more than two dozen countries. He also provides global analytics on grid digitalization, energy…
