ESMAP Newsletter | September 2024
HIGHLIGHTS
ESMAP will participate at UNGA 79th and NYC Climate Week.
ESMAP Business Plan FY2025-30
Under the new proposed ESMAP objectives, we aim to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy services by 2030; accelerate the transition towards a sustainable, just, and decarbonized energy system; and ensure the resilience and adaptation of the energy sector to the growing impacts of climate change and other shocks.
DATA
Global Electrification Platform (GEP) 3.0
The Global Electrification Platform (GEP), an initiative by the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), aims to standardize and simplify the use of geospatial tools to create least-cost electrification plans.
PUBLICATIONS
REPORT: Offshore Wind Development Program: Scenarios for Offshore Wind Development in Brazil
This report outlines the technical, commercial, economic, environmental and social challenges and opportunities associated with the types of offshore wind development.
REPORT: Transmission Pricing Methodologies for use in the Pan-Arab Electricity Market
This report provides information on what constitutes mainstream regulatory practice for transmission tariff design. It aims to inform and guide the Pan-Arab Advisory and Regulatory Committee (ARC), the Arab Transmission System Operators (TSOs) Committee, and PAEM stakeholders.
REPORT SERIES: From Sun to Roof to Grid
The series shows how to leverage the benefits of roof-top solar, a low-cost, easy-to-install modular technology, whether in large, stable power systems or in small systems like those found on islands or in conflict regions.
LIVEWIRE: Adapting Spatial Frameworks to Guide Energy Access Interventions in Urbanizing Africa
The extension of electricity into rural areas has been the focus of efforts to achieve universal access to reliable, affordable, and modern energy by 2030. On the African continent and elsewhere, however, rapid urbanization has produced new patterns of human settlement that blur the distinction between rural and urban.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Global Off-Grid Solar (GOGLA) Forum & Expo
ESMAP is co-organizing this Global Off-Grid Solar Forum edition. Join our sessions and visit our booth from October 8-10, 2024, at the Kenyatta International Conference Center in Nairobi, Kenya.
ESP Stakeholders Forum and Partners Meetings | November 4 - 7, 2024 in Marrakech, Morocco
This year, we celebrate the 5th anniversary of ESP's continuous collaboration, innovation, and progress in the energy storage sector.
ESMAP Webinar: From Sun to Roof to Grid: Distributed Solar Solutions for Development Challenges | September 26 @ 8:30 AM (EDT)
You will hear directly from the World Bank team behind the three reports series as they present key findings, followed by a panel discussion featuring private, public, and independent stakeholders sharing their perspectives.
» Register
Report Launch: Unveiling Socioeconomic Benefits of Hydropower Energy | September 25, 2024 @9am (EDT)
Unveiling the Socioeconomic Benefits report outlines key findings and strategies to harness these benefits through policy and planning.
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EVENTS WITH AVAILABLE MATERIALS
Our Hydrogen for Development Partnership H4D webinar delved into the results of the pilot auction using the H2Global mechanism in which government grants offset the difference between the buying and the selling price for a certain period.
Our Hydrogen for Development Partnership H4D webinar explored how establishing Green Iron Trade Corridors could serve as a scaling vector for green hydrogen trade.
The launch addressed efficient and clean cooling in rural off-grid areas, its nexus with electricity access, and its impact on multiple sectors, including safety and comfort, agriculture, fisheries and food security, and healthcare.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
