Electricity reaches less than one-quarter of Haiti’s population, stalling economic and social development. Renewable energy sources such as solar, hydropower, wind, and biomass have enormous potential to bridge the energy access gap.
The Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo, a three-day event where 600+ key industry stakeholders are gathering to take stock of progress and discuss future trends in…
ESMAP's support to the Power to the Poor program helped provide interest-free loans to female-headed households, enabling 83,000 of them to get an electricity connection.
ESMAP’s work in off-grid electrification in Kenya gets off the ground with a new $150 million World Bank investment project to provide electricity to 1.3 million people through mini grids, individual solar systems and cookstoves.
A new ESMAP-supported brief describes big data analytics techniques to facilitate their use in the energy sector and promotes a new open platform for energy data.
