This Business Plan sets out ESMAP’s objectives, priorities, strategies, and resource requirements for FY2014‐16 (i.e., July 2013 to June 2016). It draws on experience gained in implementing the previous Business Plan (ESMAP Strategic…
This report highlights some of the most important challenges for small-scale hydropower development in Vietnam, based on case studies of six river basins in northern Vietnam. It is the result of collaboration between the World Bank and the…
The key findings and results of the project’s first phase, as summarized in this report, were presented in June 2013 at a regional workshop in Vienna at which stakeholder delegations from all six Western Balkan countries were represented…
Beijing and Xi’an, China, June 27, 2014 – China has successfully decoupled energy consumption and emissions from economic growth. From 1980 to 2010, while China’s economy increased 18-fold, energy consumption increased only 5-…
With demand for energy in the Western Balkans expected to increase by as much as 70% in the coming two decades, policymakers are faced with the daunting challenge of meeting this demand in an affordable and sustainable manner. The World…
Two decades after the liberalization of India's economy and a decade after the passage of the Electricity Act of 2003, what is the state of India's power sector? A new ESMAP-supported report assesses progress in implementing the…
