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 EVENT: ESMAP and GOGLA Held The 8th Global Off-Grid Solar Forum and Expo | Nairobi, Kenya The Forum, known as the off-grid sector’s leading meeting place, welcomed more than 1,500 attendees, 90 exhibitors, 100+ policymakers, and hundreds of investors and development actors from around the world. 🎥Watch the video PUBLICATION: Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report (MTR) 2024 The Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2024 warns that a 6-fold increase over current investment levels - or $21 billion - is required to realize off-grid solar’s potential to contribute to universal energy access in 2030. 📚Download the Report EVENT: The 8th Mini Grid Action Learning Event | Lusaka, Zambia Hosted by ESMAP, Africa Mini grid Developers Association (AMDA), and COMESA Secretariat, this event brought together more than 300 government leaders, developers, financiers, and energy stakeholders to accelerate decentralized renewable energy solutions. 🎥Watch the Video PUBLICATION: Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report 2025 The 2025 Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report finds that 666 million people remain unconnected, 85% of whom live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Distributed renewable energy – solar home systems and solar mini grids – offer flexible solutions to reach the remaining populations but require significant additional investments. 📰Read the Press Release | 📚Download the Report PUBLICATION: Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE) 2024: The Time is Now The new ESMAP RISE Report finds that many countries’ RISE scores have increased - meaning that their electricity and clean cooking policy and regulatory frameworks have improved - but this has not translated into significant electrification gains. 📚Download the Report
STUDY TOUR: Smart Energy Infrastructure, South Korea The Study Tour, Oct 30 to Nov 6, co-organized by the Korea Green Growth Trust Fund covered Korea’s experience with smart grid deployment, grid modernization and renewable energy integration, change management and skilling.
STUDY TOUR: ESMAP Energy Cybersecurity, Paris, France The cybersecurity study tour aimed to help aid Transmission System Operator (TSO), Distribution System Operators (DSO), and Ministries of Energy reduce grid vulnerabilities, strengthen operational technology (OT) and improve cyber resilience policies.
ANNUAL MEETINGS EVENT: Knowledge Café – Reforming Energy Subsidies: Challenges and Opportunities This Knowledge Café offered a candid discussion about challenges, opportunities and lessons from real-world experiences in reforming energy subsidies in developing countries, at the critical junction of energy, climate and macroeconomic policy domains. 🎥Watch the Replay
PUBLICATION: Energy Subsidy Reform in Action | From Ambition to Action: Practical Insights on Energy Subsidy Reforms Reforming energy subsidies is challenging but necessary. This report offers a framework and steps for effective reform, including understanding subsidies' impacts, developing reform options, and strategic communication. 📚Download the Report
DATA PLATFORM: Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) Atlas The Distributed Renewable Energy (DRE) Atlas provides comprehensive data on settlements in 58 countries, offering detailed insights into communities suitable for the deployment of mini grid and off-grid solar systems. The DRE Atlas supports initiatives like Mission 300 to accelerate energy access. The platform is a joint ESMAP/IFC product. 🔎Explore
IMMERSIVE STORY: Meet the Women Powering the Islands This immersive story sheds light on how greater women participation can enhance the impact of clean energy technologies on energy security and affordability in small islands. Meet Shurpal, Hamna, and Audilia—women from Saint Lucia, the Maldives, and Cabo Verde who are transforming the energy sector. With the World Bank's support via ESMAP and partners, these women are overcoming barriers to education and employment in STEM fields and advancing renewable energy solutions. 🌍Immerse Yourself in their Story
PUBLICATION: Gender, Social Inclusion, and Energy Access in The Horn of Africa Borderlands: A Vantage Point This assessment identifies gender and social inclusion gaps with respect to equitable access to clean and modern energy in the Horn of Africa (HoA) borderlands, specifically in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Sudan. It examines the differences in the constraints that women, girls, men, and boys face about equitable access to energy in the HoA borderlands and the potential benefits and impacts of equitable access to energy. 📚Download the Report
SPRING MEETINGS EVENT: Knowledge Cafe Unlocking Job Opportunities in the Clean Energy Sector What is the potential for new and better jobs in the clean energy sector? What targeted training programs are needed to build the necessary capacity? How can women be part of this new workforce? This was the focus of this ESMAP Knowledge Café session during the recent World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings. The event featured Iffath Sharif, Global Director for Social Protection and Jobs at the World Bank, Patrick Walsh, Co-Founder and CEO of Sun King, and Demetrios Papathanasiou, Global Director for Energy and Extractives. 🎥Watch the Video
PUBLICATION: Power More with Less: Scaling Up Energy Efficiency for Growth and Energy Security The report provides a roadmap to harness the vast, untapped potential of energy efficiency in developing countries. It showcases successful examples of low- and middle-income countries that have prioritized energy efficiency in their energy sector policies, targets, and programs. 📚Download the Report INITIATIVE: COP29 in Baku: Consensus on the Hydrogen 10GW Lighthouse Initiative The effort to drive climate action took a bold step forward on November 14, 2024, during #COP29’s Finance, Investment and Trade Day, when 12 Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) pledged their support for the 10 GW Lighthouse Initiative. The pledge is a collective commitment to bring renewable hydrogen projects of 100 MW to 1 GW to Final Investment Decision (FID) by 2030 in Emerging Markets and Developing Countries. 🔎Learn More PUBLICATION: Leveraging De-Risking Instruments and International Coordination to Catalyze Investment in Clean Hydrogen The report helps understand risk mitigation strategies to unlock and mobilize private capital for clean hydrogen in emerging markets and developing countries. It also highlights how de-risking instruments can address key barriers faced by investors in clean hydrogen projects. The report is a collaboration between ESMAP, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and other partners. 📚Download the Report PUBLICATION: Making Offshore Wind Work | Key Factors for Successful Development of Offshore Wind in Emerging Markets This comprehensive guide helps countries with planning and inclusion of offshore wind at scale in their energy mix. The guide will assist governments with favorable offshore wind resources in establishing the policies, processes, and regulatory frameworks that best suit their local, national, and regional contexts.📚Download the Report TRAINING: Effective Renewable Energy Tendering | Cape Town, South Africa In November 2024, ESMAP carried out in Cape Town the first workshop of a 10-month training on Effective Renewable Energy Tendering. The capacity building program – an initiative of ESMAP, Sustainable Renewables Risk Mitigation Initiative & GET.transform – is designed to ensure that governments are equipped with the tools and expertise necessary to successfully procure clean and affordable renewable energy through private Independent Power Producers (IPPs). It brought 62 delegates from 12 African nations together.
EVENT: Energy Storage Partnership (ESP) Stakeholders Forum and Partners Meetings | November 4 - 7, 2024, in Marrakech, Morocco This year, we celebrated the 5th anniversary of ESP's continuous collaboration, innovation, and progress in the energy storage sector. 🎥Watch the Video
Ghana: World Bank Supports Policy Reform of Ghana’s Energy Sector and Access to Clean Cooking An energy subsidy and tariff review study funded by an ESMAP grant informed the design of the ESRP. 📰Read the Press Release West Africa: West Africa Regional Electricity Market Program (WA-REMP) ESMAP played a pivotal role in supporting the development of the regional power market and transmission infrastructure in the West African Power Pool APP since 2017 through grants, including contributions to the preparation of WA-REMP, and the Interconnection project. 📰Read the Press Release Malawi: Addressing Energy Deficits: Transformative Impact of the Mpatamanga Hydropower Storage Project in Malawi ESMAP's Hydropower Development Facility supported Malawi's Mpatamanga Hydropower Storage Project by assessing its macro-economic impacts, including GDP growth, inflation, debt sustainability, and foreign exchange reserves. This analysis led to a USD$350 million grant from the International Development Association (IDA) to transform Malawi's energy landscape and economic development. 📰Read the Press Release El Salvador: El Salvador Geothermal Energy for Sustainable and Inclusive Development Project The identification, preparation, and analytical underpinnings of the project were supported by ESMAP. 📰 Read the Press Release: English | Spanish Caribbean: Caribbean Efficient and Green-Energy Buildings Project The US$131.87 million project, supported by ESMAP, will partner with the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States and the Caribbean Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency to reduce the countries’ dependence on imported fossil fuels while focusing on reducing energy consumption in public buildings and increasing the adoption of renewable energy systems. 📰Read the Press Release Caribbean: Boosting Energy Resilience in the Caribbean with a New Facility ESMAP played a pivotal role in supporting the identification, preparation, and analytical foundations of the Caribbean Resilient Renewable Energy Infrastructure Investment Facility for Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, while ensuring its alignment with regional energy resilience goals. 📰Read the Press Release Saint Lucia: Empowering Saint Lucia: Advancing Clean Energy through Geothermal Viability and Investment Facilitation The preparation of this US$12.754 million loan which includes US$8.5million in IDA credit, US$1.754 million in ESMAP grant (from the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet), and US$2.5 million in Canada Clean Energy Forest Carbon Facility (CCEFCF) concessional loan, was supported by ESMAP.🔎Learn more Indonesia: World Bank Approves Investments to Boost Indonesia’s Economic Growth and Access to Clean Energy ESMAP's Sustainable Renewables Risk Mitigation Initiative (SRMI) provided US$6 million grant funding (with direct contribution from the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) to co-finance a US$1.5 billion new investment, the Indonesia Sustainable Least-Cost Electrification-2 (ISLE-2) operation that was approved June 12 by the World Bank Board.📰Read the Press Release Uzbekistan: Uzbekistan Receives $7.5 Million in Carbon Credits for Enabling Half a Million Tons of Emissions Reduction The preparation of the Innovative Carbon Resource Application for Energy Transition (iCRAFT) was supported by an ESMAP grant which included analytical work on energy sector tariffs and subsidies, distributional impact analyses, and communications. 📰 Read the Press Release |