With solar and wind power uptake accelerating in Africa, at-scale battery storage solutions is critical to help clean energy resources achieve their full potential in the region.
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.
Solar measurement data, regional least-cost planning, and pre-feasibility analyses supported by ESMAP have laid the groundwork for a large World Bank investment in West Africa to mobilize private sector financing in solar energy.
