About 84 percent of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) population has no access to electricity, among the lowest in Sub-Saharan Africa. The few households and businesses with an electricity connection receive unreliable service.
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District heating plays a critical role in meeting basic heating needs in Ukraine, but the sector faces serious challenges that must be resolved to avoid collapse. A recent ESMAP report looks at heat metering and consumption-based billing…
While the interest of policy makers in the nexus between electrification, productive electricity usage and development impacts has been increasing steadily over the last decade, there still remains a lack of robust evidence on the…
Over 250 World Bank Group staff and selected participants from World Bank partners have now taken part in a comprehensive renewable energy training program developed by ESMAP, in partnership with the IFC. Modules have been conducted…
There is tremendous market potential for efficient cookstoves in Central America, according to a new ESMAP-supported report. At the same time, only 10 percent of the 20 million people in the region who depend on firewood for cooking use an…
As part of its work on energy and climate adaptation, ESMAP helped support and participated in the First International Conference on Energy and Meteorology (ICEM), “Weather and Climate for the Energy Industry," organized by Australia’s…
