Session Two presented examples of successful (often public-private) business models for the most important offgrid market segments: (i) solar home systems and battery charging for dispersed households, and (ii) diesel and hydro power for…
The hallmark of the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program, or ESMAP, is the promotion and support of innovation and forward thinking in the energy sector. In these times, finding new solutions to energy challenges has become even…
This paper is one of the first studies to examine the welfare impacts of households’ rural electrification based on panel surveys conducted in 2002 and 2005 for some 1,100 households in rural Vietnam,. The findings indicate that…
The note is prepared by the World Bank’s project management team for the China Second Energy Conservation Project, drawing on major national surveys completed for 2005 and 2007 by the Energy Conservation Service Committee of…
The main purpose of the consultancy, was to view the applications and interact with those eople and organisations that are using this technology and technologies that are related to it and to see how this could be integrated into the…
The proposed study constitutes Phase 1 of a two-phase activity. In this phase we concentrate on the assessment of energy demand and resources, and identification of potentials for energy integration in Mashreq countries. Phase 2…
