Across ECA, focus groups show that users are still skeptical that energy subsidy and tariff reforms will result in improved services. In a previous blog we discussed how households cope with the increasing cost of energy. Here we…
ESMAP’s Practitioner Exchange Series shares valuable knowledge about ESMAP’s work in energy subsidy reform. It brings practitioner and expert perspectives from their experience with energy subsidy reform programs around the world…
This spring, Lighting Africa demonstrated the transformative power of off-grid lighting and energy products to hundreds of World Bank staff and visitors. To do so, black-out tents were set out in the atrium of the World Bank…
Harnessing the full potential of renewable sources requires addressing different policy, regulatory, and technical planning aspects which currently inhibit the expansion of the transmission system.
At the just concluded World Bank/IMF annual meetings, the World Bank hailed several development partners for their support to IDA's energy program. It said, “The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) has helped IDA countries…
