In the Arab world, there are great potential benefits from increasing electricity trade beyond its current, very low level. The potential shared value of trade in electricity in 2020–2030 is estimated at $12 billion.
In Bangladesh, exposure to indoor air pollution from using traditional cookstoves results in nearly 107,000 deaths every year, mostly women and children. The country’s Improved Cookstoves Program is changing the lives of millions, and…
Floating solar technologies are creating major new opportunities to scale up solar energy around the world, particularly in countries with high population density and competing uses for available land.
ESMAP has supported a World Bank project to improve Pakistan’s energy security, scale up solar power capacity, and reach 200,000 low access households with solar home systems.
