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ANNUAL REPORT 2020
ESMAP and the World Bank
Energy is at the heart of development. It makes possible the investments, innovations, and new industries that are the engines of jobs, inclusive growth, and shared prosperity for entire economies.
The World Bank Group (WBG) and ESMAP are at the frontier of the global energy sector transformation, helping developing countries to take advantage of technological, financial and policy innovations and implement approaches that best suit their needs to address energy poverty in an equitable way. Through World Bank country programs, ESMAP is supporting energy sector reforms that maximize finance for development and accelerate the energy transition required to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all.
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ESMAP worked with the World Bank’s Water Global Practice to produce the guidance note Mainstreaming Energy Efficiency Investments in Urban Water and Wastewater Utilities, a website, a screening mechanism to flag upcoming water operations for their energy efficiency potential while they are still in early design phases, dissemination events, and dissemination material. Through the new screening process, water operations with potential to include energy efficiency measures in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Eswatini, Indonesia, Kiribati, Mexico, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Uruguay, and Yemen.
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ESMAP provides the vital analytical basis to support the quality and relevance of World Bank energy sector operations during a period of profound technological change in the global energy system.
Demetrios Papathanasiou
Global Director, Energy and Extractives Global Practice, World Bank
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ESMAP's technical expertise, grant funding and project advisory are supporting the World Bank and many other development partners to collectively achieve universal energy access by 2030 and fulfill one of the most critical UN Sustainable Development Goals. ESMAP contributed to the evolution of the World Bank's energy portfolio, mainstreaming off-grid and mini grid solutions for expanding energy access, and supporting a lending portfolio that represents 25% of global mini grid investment.
Makhtar Diop
Vice President for Infrastructure, World Bank
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5
Million
beneficiaries expected to be reached by World Bank development financing
19.5
Gigawatts
of renewable energy expected to be installed
541
Million
metric tons of CO2 emissions expected
to be reduced
27
MILLION MWH
projected
lifetime energy and fuel savings to be achieved
Climate
Change
8.2
BILLION USD
World Bank development financing informed
2
BILLION USD
external financing mobilized, including private sector
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Health and Energy Platform of Action
Energy Access
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Clean Cooking in Uganda
Energy Access
Results
Location: Uganda
About 95 percent of Ugandans still use solid biomass fuels for cooking their meals. According to the Tracking SDG7 2020 report, Uganda ranked in the top 10 largest clean cooking access deficit countries (by proportion of people) and third largest by overall population size deficit.
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This project led to 53,754 tons of CO2 reduction each year from the stoves currently in operation (a 30% emission reduction compared to the baseline); a savings of 20,740 tons of charcoal per year (about a 36% average monthly fuel consumption reduction at the household level and associated financial savings); and 30- to 90 minutes per day time savings for women.
Approved in FY20, the Uganda Energy Access Scale-Up Project will also include clean cooking objectives in its $30 to $50 million access-to-finance facility to provide credit guarantees for on-lending by participating financing institutions to clean cooking fuel and technology companies (as well as off-grid solar companies).
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Clean Cooking Panels and Workshops
Energy Access
Convening Event
Location: Nairobi
In November 2019, ESMAP co-hosted a panel discussion with the UK Modern Energy Cooking Services Program (MECS) at the Clean Cooking Forum in Nairobi with almost 200 attendees. In April and May 2020, ESMAP hosted two workshops with donors during the Africa Energy Retreat and the Clean Cooking Deep Dive at the annual ESMAP Consultative Group Meetings.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Ethiopia Off-Grid Electrification Forum
Energy Access
Convening Event
Location: Ethiopia
The GFMG holds annual Action Learning Events to discuss issues such as geospatial-based planning, workable regulations, access to finance, and better integration of demand side aspects. In February 2020, the government of Ethiopia, with the support of ESMAP and the UK Department for International Development (DFID, now the FCDO), welcomed over 150 participants at the Ethiopia National Off-Grid Electrification Forum.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Nigeria Mini Grids
Energy Access
Results
Location: Nigeria
In December 2019, the Federal Government of Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency (REA) facilitated the commissioning of a solar hybrid mini grid power plant in Rokota Community, Edati Local Government Area, Niger State. It will provide clean, safe, and reliable electricity to an expected 3,000 people in the community, including for the local clinic. The project is the first to be commissioned under the World Bank-supported Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP) Mini Grids component, which represents a World Bank investment commitment of $150 million for 850 mini grids by 2024, with ESMAP providing comprehensive support to Nigeria to help scale up mini grids. To date, more than 120 mini grids are under preparation and the project is expected to provide more than 1.5 million people with access to electricity.
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By the end of June 2020, a key milestone of the overall NEP project was achieved by providing electricity to 250,000 people through solar mini grids as well as solar standalone systems. The milestone represents a confirmation of the interest by the private sector to develop mini grid projects and to sell high quality, Lighting Global-certified, standalone solar systems on commercial basis under NEP.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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GIZ & Mini Grids
Energy Access
PARTNERSHIPS
Location: Germany
ESMAP and GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), the German international development agency, have engaged in successful cooperation to enhance the mini grid sector in Nigeria and Myanmar. GIZ provides technical assistance to link the private and public sector in these countries, where ESMAP is financing the scale-up of the sector. In Nigeria, the GIZ Nigerian Energy Support Program provided technical assistance to the Nigerian government in implementing the framework for an open mini grid market. Based on this framework, the World Bank provided a loan to the government that it in turn distributes grants to private mini grid developers.
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The GFMG collaborates with a large number of stakeholders, including mini grid developers, government officials, financiers, technology providers, researchers, project implementation partners, development partners, and recognized experts. Beyond GIZ, exceptionally productive collaborations have taken place with AMDA, Castalia, HOMER, IEEE, INENSUS, NREL, Odyssey, RMI, Rockefeller Foundation, TTA, and Village Infrastructure Angels.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Lighting Global in Myanmar
Energy Access
Location: Myanmar
In Myanmar, Lighting Global has been instrumental in developing sustainable public- and private-led off-grid business models as part of the National Electrification Project (NEP). ESMAP helped to develop and implement a “management of information system” to provide the government with an efficient way to track household system-size choices and installation progress through the provision of several layers of data—household surveys, installation, verification, and payment. This system is a first of its kind, ensuring timely reporting and decision making, and can be replicated in other electrification programs. Solar home system installations for clinics, schools, religious facilities, and streetlights have further extended the benefits to entire communities, reaching almost 7,400 off-grid villages in Myanmar, to date.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Lighting Africa in Ethiopia
Energy Access
Location: Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, the ESMAP-supported Lighting Africa program designed the Market Development for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficient Product Credit Line, which is a revolving fund providing loans to private sector enterprises and microfinance institutions to expand the local renewable energy market and increase affordability of renewable energy products for households under the Electricity Network Reinforcement and Expansion Project (ENREP). Twenty-six private sector businesses are currently using the credit line, importing and selling solar products that meet Lighting Global Quality Standards, and 14 microfinance institutions are currently providing energy financing options to households using funds accessed through the credit line.
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The credit facility has a remarkable zero percent rate of default. The first of its kind, the credit facility is now being replicated in almost 20 countries across Africa. To date, the credit line has successfully supported the purchase of 1.2 million solar products and provided loans through microfinance institutions to more than 211,000 rural households, 60 percent of which are female headed.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Lighting Global Partnerships for Off-Grid Solar
Energy Access
PARTNERSHIPS
Location: Africa
Lighting Global has developed strong partnerships with governments, the private sector, development agencies, and other stakeholders to build thriving off-grid markets. Lighting Global works closely with and through organizations supporting universal electrification, such as Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA), Shell Foundation, USAID/Power Africa, DFID (now FCDO), ACE, and SEforAll as part of the Community of Champions group. Lighting Global regularly collaborates with other sectors to ensure the appropriateness and sustainability of electrification efforts for schools (education), farmers (agriculture), and medical centers (health). Existing partnerships with health professionals are proving particularly valuable in rapidly scaling up energy access efforts for health clinics in light of the COVID-19 crisis.
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In addition, Lighting Global has helped to establish new entities to provide core functionalities. In FY20, this includes VeraSol (2020) which was established to carry out quality assurance activities previously led by Lighting Global in collaboration with the Schatz Energy Research Center and CLASP.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Rohingya Refugee Solar
Energy Access
Location: Bangladesh
In FY20, ESMAP supported the preparation of a $5 million energy subcomponent of the Emergency Multisector Rohingya Crisis Response Project (EMRCRP) and an assessment of energy service needs for Rohingya communities in refugee camps in the Cox Bazaar region of Bangladesh. The EMRCRP subcomponent will finance approximately 100 solar nano-grids in the camp area to increase access to clean and sustainable electricity to energy-poor households and shared facilities like health centers and learning centers.
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The ESMAP fund so far has been used for energy need assessment, camp survey for potential sites for the nano-grids, consultations with stakeholders, rapid assessment of energy needs in medical facilities for refugee and host communities, and ongoing work for detailed site identification and design for the first set of nano-grids to be installed on the rooftops of multipurpose service centers, also funded by the EMRCRP.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Access for Host Communities & Refugees
Energy Access
Location: ?
Notable collaboration has taken place with the Sahel Alliance working in areas impacted by violence and Boko Haram activity, as well as with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and across World Bank activities (including Lighting Global and the Global Facility on Mini-Grids).
In December 2019, ESMAP was represented at the Global Refugee Forum to raise awareness of energy access issues in those contexts.
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The Host-Communities and Refugees initiative will continue to actively engage with other international organizations like Practical Action or the Global Plan for Action, and expand its existing collaborations with, for example UNHCR’ s data and energy units.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Rehabilitating the Energy Sector in Yemen
Energy Access
Location: Yemen
Most of the local energy infrastructure in Yemen was damaged or destroyed during the ongoing armed conflict, leaving the electricity access as a major development challenge for the country. ESMAP is supporting local authorities with the aim to improve access to electricity in rural and peri-urban areas. An ESMAP-financed activity has informed the Yemen Emergency Electricity Access Project’s (YEEAP) approach to engaging the private sector. It also has enabled the project to achieve substantial results in FY20 by developing the analytical foundation to restore and expand energy access through the rehabilitation of the energy sector. The outputs from this exercise informed both YEEAP and the Integrated Urban Services Emergency Project, with a total commitment amount of $200 million.
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As of mid-July 2020, 132,000 people had benefited from new or improved electricity access as a result of purchases of subsidized solar kits from the participating multilateral financial institutions, including 18 percent female buyers/borrowers.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Barrio 31 Settlement in Buenos Aires
Energy Access
Location: Argentina
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, ESMAP helped to promote social and urban integration of the Barrio 31 settlement, under the $170 million WBG Metropolitan Buenos Aires Urban Transformation project. The project included the installation of a new electricity grid and improved street lighting. LED lights were installed throughout the Barrio 31 neighborhood and recommendations on the design of sustainable sidewalks were incorporated into planning. In Barrio 31, new housing has been designed incorporating energy and water efficiency measures, such as insulation of roofs and external walls, double-glazed windows, solar thermal water heaters, solar panels, and low-flow showerheads.
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ESMAP technical assistance supported greater energy efficiency of public buildings (e.g., with a green building certification system), and the government staff capacity in solar thermal and photovoltaic was increased through dedicated training.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Resource Mapping in Pakistan
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Results
Location: Pakistan
Engagement in Pakistan started with resource mapping activities which were the first comprehensive country-wide efforts to identify the energy generation potential from biomass, solar, and wind resources. The solar mapping was completed at a point when private developer interest in solar generation is strong and growing and the dataset has become one of the most downloaded datasets from Energydata.info. The wind mapping has identified new, previously unknown, corridors of high wind power potential, for example, in Balochistan. This activity was the first non-hydropower renewable energy engagement by the World Bank in Pakistan and has paved the way for much stronger engagement by the WBG in this growing subsector.
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Subsequent ESMAP-funded grant supported the Government in its energy sector reform agenda by strengthening the capacity of key agencies to plan for the cost-effective deployment of renewable energy and its integration into the national grid. Results of the Variable Renewable Energy Integration and Planning Study have already informed the targets of the government’s Alternative & Renewable Energy Policy 2020, and also improved the capacity of the National Transmission & Despatch Company to develop a least-cost generation plan using modern tools and equipment to facilitate increased penetration of renewable energy.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Nnergix Solar Forecast Data Flow
RENEWABLE ENERGY
PARTNERSHIPS
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ESMAP developed an online software tool that would be able to provide a stable solar energy forecast data flow, for power plants located in emerging countries. Addressing mainly grid operators and power producers, this tool for solar PV forecasting will help them to integrate solar power onto the grid.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Solar & Storage in Maldives
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Location: Maldives
ESMAP has supported the Maldives’ path to decarbonization on several fronts. A two-year solar resource data collection venture, included the first use of light detection and ranging (LIDAR) installations for wind measurements under the ESMAP’s global resource mapping program and helped formulate the country’s renewable energy strategy. The Sustainable Renewables Risk Mitigation Initiative (SRMI) approach, and knowledge built through the Energy Storage Partnership, informed the World Bank-supported Accelerating Sustainable Private Investment in Renewable Energy (ASPIRE) project through prefeasibility studies. The small island nation was able to mobilize private sector investors for projects totaling 6.5 MW, and bring in revolutionary tariffs through best practices highlighted in the four components of SRMI.
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The Government of the Maldives has been engaged with the World Bank under the Accelerating Renewable Energy Integration and Sustainable Energy (ARISE) program to implement 21 MW of large scale solar PV (including 10 MW of floating solar), battery deployment and grid modernization to enable VRE integration and provide technical assistance for institutional capacity building and pipeline development. The work cuts across the energy sector in the Maldives and will serve as best practice for other Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to replicate.
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In a September 2020 interview, the Environment Minister Hussain Rasheed Hassan highlighted the impact of ASPIRE and ARISE in expanding investment in grids and renewable generation, partly by increasing the confidence of renewable energy investors through the provision of payment guarantees.
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Energy security in Tuvalu
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Location: Tuvalu
A $2.1 million grant through ESMAP’s Small Island Developing States (SIDS) DOCK Support Program is playing a key role in helping Tuvalu achieve energy security by reducing its dependence on imported fuel to generate power, and by improving the efficiency and sustainability of its electricity system by providing the support for a solar photovoltaics (PV) facility (750kW solar PV and 2 MWh battery energy storage system, BESS). The project will more than double Tuvalu’s use of solar from 8% to 20% and marks the first commercial-scale largest installation of solar PV and first BESS system in Tuvalu/Micronesia.
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On the regional scale, the comprehensive support from ESMAP and the SIDS DOCK Support Program funded a variable renewable energy (VRE) grid integration study for all the Pacific Island country utilities, including a $3.5 million grant funding a regional activity capacity focusing on capacity building and the development of the technical and institutional capacity of the Pacific Island Utilities (PICs). This collective effort has helped the utilities get more familiar with solar PV and battery storage generation assets, and has led to the successful procurement in Tuvalu, and also the successful procurement for a 4 MW solar and 1 MWh BESS in the Marshall Islands.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Sustainable Energy in Pakistan
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Location: Pakistan
In Pakistan, high power costs from imported fuels and expensive power purchasing agreements prompted the government to begin realigning power generation costs and accelerating renewable energy deployments. ESMAP is engaged in strengthening the energy transition with market development of off-grid access, supporting energy efficiency, improving transmission and distribution, and enabling new renewable energy supply to the national grid. ESMAP’s resource mapping activities were the first comprehensive country-wide efforts to identify the energy generation potential from biomass, solar, and wind resources, and was the first non-hydropower renewable energy engagement by the World Bank in Pakistan.
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Results of “Variable Renewable Energy (VRE) Integration and Planning Study" commissioned under the grant indicate that a combined capacity of less than 30 percent from solar and wind power is possible and desirable in Pakistan, with multiple benefits, including cost savings through reduced fuel consumption, improved energy security, and reduced carbon intensity. The results of this study have already informed the targets of the government’s Alternative & Renewable Energy Policy 2020. An ESMAP grant is also supporting development of a roadmap for scaling-up of renewable energy in Khyber, Paktunkhwa.
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The Pakistan power sector was hit hard by COVID-19, with electricity demand plunging for commercial users by 75 percent and for industrial users by 60 percent in March 2020, when revenues fell 61 percent below expectations. The crisis underscored the need to rapidly transition the energy sector, further motivating the government move forward with this cooperation.
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Solar Irrigation in India
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Location: India
ESMAP’s support to scaling up solar often impacts cross-cutting sectoral issues, such as the energy-water-agriculture nexus in India. Following the dissemination in December 2019 of a key report on this topic prepared by the World Bank’s Water Global Practice and buttressed by the Energy and Agriculture Global Practices, ESMAP-funded technical assistance supported the preparation of a pilot for grid connected solar irrigation systems on two electricity feeders identified by Rajasthan. The project yielded a standard package of documents for solar irrigation systems, including farmer due diligence documents, financial analysis reports, standard procurement documents, and customized power purchase agreements between farmers and the utility.
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The impact of this ESMAP funded activity will go beyond Rajasthan. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) intends to use these documents to inform its national scheme to provide support to Indian states in implementing solar irrigation systems. Addressing nexus issues requires a collaborative and well-coordinated team effort by the World Bank among its global practices to provide clients with innovative and contextually appropriate solutions.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Geothermal Direct Use and Gender
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Location: El Salvador
Under the Global Geothermal Development Plan (GGDP), ESMAP continued to support gender equality by working closely with regional specialists and following up on the suggestions identified in the report Gender Equality in the Geothermal Sector – Road to Sustainability published in April 2019. During FY20, ESMAP worked with the World Bank team preparing the geothermal project in El Salvador to address gender biases in corporate culture. This activity was based on a pilot implemented by WING (New Zealand) and is referred to as WINGmen Special Taskforce: Train the Trainee. A workshop was organized and held in December 2020 in El Salvador in partnership with the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), WING, and LaGEo. The workshop participants came from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, and Costa Rica.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Geothermal in Turkey
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Location: Turkey
To support Turkey’s shift towards renewable energy, ESMAP’s Global Geothermal Development Plan (GGDP) helped leverage a $350 million project to scale up private sector investment for geothermal development by reducing the risks taken on by investors during early-stage drilling. This has been done through a Risk Sharing Mechanism (RSM) and by providing access to long-term financing. Turkish citizens benefit from new economic and employment opportunities created, and the global community benefits from the lessons learned through the use of the risk-sharing facility in designing similar mechanisms to stimulate geothermal exploration in other markets.
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GGDP activities supported 42 MW of geothermal power capacity coming online in Turkey in FY20, and an additional 12 MW in August 2020, for a total capacity of 253 MW across the country.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Icelandic Support for Geothermal
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Location: Iceland
ESMAP Global Geothermal Development Plan (GGDP) benefitted greatly from in-kind services provided by experts hired and provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iceland. In addition to the in-kind services, the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs funded two full scholarships for women from the Caribbean at the 6-month United Nations University Geothermal Training Program, which has the mandate to assist low- and middle-income countries to establish local specialists in geothermal exploration and development.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Building Back Better with Hydropower
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The expertise and convening power of ESMAP are key assets in developing sustainable hydropower projects. On 24-25 June 2020, ESMAP convened a seminar on “Building Back Better and Greener with Sustainable Hydropower,” which underlined the vital role that hydropower will continue to play in meeting climate change targets through the clean energy transition, as well as in achieving key Sustainable Development Goals, including the provision of universal electricity access by 2030.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Gender Capacity Building in the Middle East
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Location: Amman
In January 2020, the regional gender program for MENA organized a “Workshop on Achieving Sustainable, Low-Carbon Energy Transitions through Citizen Engagement and Gender” in Amman, Jordan. The workshop included 42 participants from across the region and provided an opportunity to deepen the dialogue on energy transitions, low-carbon growth, and the role gender can play in the sector to ensure success.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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WePOWER in South Asia
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Location: India
In India, the South Asia Gender and Energy Facility (SAGE) supported Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) to improve their human resources practices and policies to target, attract and recruit more women in the sector. These improvements were carried out in alignment with the methodology and ‘pillars’ of the Women in Power Sector Network in South Asia (WePOWER).
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WePOWER has been expanding its local chapters in the region thanks to the support of stakeholders including the Asian Development Bank (ADB). WePOWER pillars are now being implemented in Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and possibly Nepal. These local chapters will partially assume the interim-secretariat's responsibilities and help in engagement with WePOWER partners. During 2020, the Regional Conference was attended by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the French Development Agency, contributing to knowledge exchange among the participants. During this regional conference, EESL presented their gender assessment under the WePOWER methodology.
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Thanks to this partnership, other World Bank projects in India and Pakistan are interested in implementing similar actions for deep-dive gender support that integrate the WePOWER pillars to foster female labor force participation.
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Closing Gaps in Women’s Employment in Ethiopia and Kenya
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Location: Ethiopia and Kenya
Through the Energy and Economic Growth (EEG) joint research program administered by ESMAP and DFID (now FCDO), a program dedicated to Closing Gaps in Women’s Employment in the Energy Sector, was established for South Asia and Africa, and is focused on establishing baseline data and stakeholder engagement and providing knowledge and advisory support to operational teams and clients.
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In Ethiopia, supported by the World Bank Group, ESMAP Africa Gender and Energy Program and the State and Peacebuilding Fund Gender-Based Violence grant, the Ethiopia Electric Utility (EEU) allocated $4.5 million to closing gender gaps and citizen engagement. EEU’s approach started with developing a pipeline of future workers. It signed a unique partnership agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and 12 Ethiopian universities to provide courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Improved STEM instruction is essential to upskill the existing female staff footprint so that they match male employees in education attainments and can advance their careers the energy sector.
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In Kenya, support was focused on designing a women’s scholarship component of the proposed Kenya Electricity Sector Improvement Project with Kenya Power and Lighting Co. Ltd. The program conducted interviews with key faculty and administration of the Institute for Energy Studies and Research (the utility’s training center), as well as focus groups with current female students. Key issues to be resolved were identified and recommendations were developed for the scholarships. A virtual briefing was conducted with the utility’s Manager of Learning and Development to review the findings and best practices for scholarship programs.
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Geothermal in Turkey
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Location: Turkey
To support Turkey’s shift towards renewable energy, ESMAP’s Global Geothermal Development Plan (GGDP) helped leverage a $350 million project to scale up private sector investment for geothermal development by reducing the risks taken on by investors during early-stage drilling. This has been done through a Risk Sharing Mechanism (RSM) and by providing access to long-term financing. Turkish citizens benefit from new economic and employment opportunities created, and the global community benefits from the lessons learned through the use of the risk-sharing facility in designing similar mechanisms to stimulate geothermal exploration in other markets.
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GGDP activities supported 42 MW of geothermal power capacity coming online in Turkey in FY20, and an additional 12 MW in August 2020, for a total capacity of 253 MW across the country.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Energy Efficiency in Uzbekistan’s Water Utilities
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Location: Uzbekistan
In Uzbekistan, a World Bank grant supported the design of an energy efficiency financing facility for cost-effective investments in the Suvokovas (water utilities). This work included the analysis of incentives and constraints of the credit facility for water utilities and participating financial institutions (PFIs); gaps in the legal and regulatory framework; and the definition of key on-lending terms, conditions, and rules for the credit facility between the Ministry of Finance and PFIs and between PFIs and the borrowing water utilities. These terms and conditions included the eligibility criteria for water utilities, credit line thresholds, currency of the loan and currency of repayment, a method to calculate the interest charged on the principal amount, among other things, as well as potential eligible investments.
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Finally, it included the determination of capacity building and training requirements for the PFIs to support a successful implementation of the financing facility and an action plan to support the transition towards increasing commercial finance within the water supply and sanitation sector.
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ESMAP also supported this wider project with energy efficiency audits and a pre-feasibility study for the Namangan water utility as a pilot demonstration project, and the preparation of a sector reform roadmap, including energy efficiency actions; policy advice for mid-term planning and tariff setting, which details specific provisions for incentivizing and capturing energy efficiency gains; and a series of training and capacity building activities for utility staff at the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services.
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Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP)
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The collaboration between ESMAP and K-CEP goes beyond the seed funding to establish the Efficient Clean Cooling program. The funding has indeed been critical to support important TA activities across the WBG to essentially help develop a new sustainable cooling business line at the Bank with the aim of scaling and mainstreaming “cooling-informed” operations. It also facilitated linking ESMAP’s Efficient, Clean Cooling program to the broader cooling community and helped leverage knowledge and expertise to better inform ESMAP-supported cooling activities. The support was key to help ESMAP raise the profile and awareness around cooling within the WBG. In fact, ESMAP’s contribution to greater “institutionalization” of cooling within ESMAP and at the Bank was recognized at the K-CEP Annual Meeting in February 2020.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Designing Sustainable Financing Mechanisms
Energy Efficiency
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Location: Kosovo
In the Western Balkans, ESMAP supported the identification of options for energy efficiency investments in the public sector, including the structuring of revolving financing mechanisms. As a result of these activities, the Government of Kosovo established the Kosovo Energy Efficiency Fund as an independent, autonomous, and sustainable entity. With funding and cooperation from the European Commission, the World Bank supported the capitalization and operationalization of the Fund, which identifies, finances, and implements municipal energy efficiency projects through energy service agreements (ESAs).
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Energy service agreements allow the Fund to finance the energy efficiency investments in municipal buildings or facilities, such as building energy efficiency renovations or street lighting retrofits, and to recover the investment and the Fund’s operation costs through collecting payments from the municipalities based on the energy cost savings achieved by the investments. Generally, leveraging funds with partners (such as the European Union) and strengthening institutions proved to be a particularly effective approach. Building local capacity to implement projects introduces a more sustainable financing structure to efficiency programs and facilitates replication in other sectors, such as public buildings or the water sector.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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West African Power Pool
Location: West Africa
Over the past decade, member countries of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) have been working through the West Africa Power Pool (WAPP) towards a fully integrated power market. The West Africa Power Pool has done the fundamental work of interconnecting national grids, but policy coordination is necessary to realize the full strength of the regional power market. Coordinated policies paired with effective institutions and regulatory frameworks will help improve trust in the electricity trade and usher in a new era of affordable and reliable energy in West Africa.
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The goal is to facilitate trade of cleaner, low-cost electricity generated from gas, hydropower, and renewable energy across borders, and to replace more expensive electricity generated from inefficient, small-scale oil-fired and diesel generation, and to improve the reliability of electricity services.
ESMAP’s analytical work on policy reform underpinned a Directive adopted by the Heads of State of ECOWAS to implement coordinated reform programs in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, and Sierra Leone. In July 2020, World Bank approved a total of $300 million in credits and grants to support reforms that will help promote electricity trade in West Africa.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Energy Sector Reform in Uzbekistan
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Location: Uzbekstan
The West Africa Regional Energy Trade Development Policy Financing Program seeks to remove barriers to electricity trade, which will lower electricity costs for consumers, support the competitiveness of firms, and improve resilience and reliability of supply.
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Reform objectives of the government include: addressing inadequate financial and operational performance; modernizing infrastructure and improving energy service delivery; strengthening the institutional and market structure; commercialization of the energy utilities; and development of an enabling policy and regulatory framework in the energy sector. In August 2019, the government adopted the Electricity Sector Reform Implementation Plan (ESRIP), which is currently being executed by the ministries and sector utilities.
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ESMAP’s PASA support has encouraged the development of renewable energy in Uzbekistan and provided support in sustainable financing to scale up demand-side energy efficiency. Finally, it has provided policy, advisory, analytical, technical, and coordination support, and capacity building to implement the comprehensive energy sector reforms that are now underway.
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Ethiopia Off-Grid Electrification Forum
Nigeria Mini Grids
GIZ & Mini Grids
Lighting Global in Myanmar
Lighting Africa in Ethiopia
Lighting Global for Off-Grid Solar
Rohingya Refugee Solar
Access for Host Communities & Refugees
Rehabilitating the Energy Sector in Yemen
Barrio 31 Settlement in Buenos Aires
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Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE)
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RISE is a set of indicators to help compare national policy and regulatory frameworks for sustainable energy. It assesses countries’ policy and regulatory support for each of the three pillars of sustainable energy—access to modern energy, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. RISE is built on a wealth of empirical evidence which shows that policies and regulations matter when countries are seeking to attract investment in sustainable energy.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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The Multi-Tier Framework
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The concept and measurement of energy access has gained significant interests from governments and development agencies. The Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative launched by the Secretary General of the United Nations in 2011 aims to achieve universal access to modern energy services by 2030. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) number 7 aims at having universal access to affordable, reliable and sustainable modern energy by 2030. In order to monitor the progress towards these goals, the World Bank/ESMAP and the International Energy Agency have led a consortium of 23 international agencies to establish the SE4All Global Tracking Framework (GTF) which describe how to measure baseline and progress towards the SE4All goals by gathering energy data regularly.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Tracking SDG7: Energy Progress Report
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The Energy Progress Report aims to provide the international community with a global dashboard to register progress on energy access, energy efficiency, renewable energy and international cooperation to advance SDG 7. It assesses the progress made by each country on these four pillars and provides a snapshot of how far we are from achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) targets.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Since 2016, the World Bank provided funding for a $2.2 million pilot project in Uganda which applied a results-based financing grants mechanism and put in place market incentives to help establish eight new manufacturer-distributor partnerships, and introduce five new high-efficiency, quality-assured biomass stoves. As of June 2020, there have been 64,097 stove sales supported by this program, used on average twice a day.
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Designing Sustainable Financing Mechanisms
Energy Efficiency
Geothermal
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Gender
Energy Sector Reform in Uzbekistan
Governance, Markets & Planning
Resource Mapping in Pakistan
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Tracking SDG7: Energy Progress Report
Knowledge Hub
GIZ & Mini Grids
Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP)
Energy Efficiency in Uzbekistan’s Water Utilities
Closing Gaps in Women’s Employment in Ethiopia and Kenya
WePOWER in South Asia
Gender Capacity Building in the Middle East
West African Power Pool
Nnergix Solar Forecast Data Flow
Solar + Storage in Maldives
Energy Security in Tuvalu
Sustainable Energy in Pakistan
Solar Irrigation in India
Geothermal Direct Use and Gender
Geothermal in Turkey
Icelandic Support for Geothermal
Building Back Better with Hydropower
The Multi-Tier Framework
Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy
Lighting Global Partnerships for Off-Grid Solar
Access for Host Communities & Refugees
Health & Energy Platform of Action
Nnergix Solar Forecast Data Flow
Icelandic Support for Geothermal
Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program
WePOWER in South Asia
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GIS Mapping of Offshore Wind Resources
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ESMAP has used geospatial data to produce GIS mapping of offshore wind resources across 48 WBG countries and regions which have offshore wind resource and has identified 15.6 TW of total technical fixed and floating offshore resource potential across these markets. The Global Wind Atlas is a free, web-based application developed to help policymakers, planners, and investors identify high-wind areas for wind power generation virtually anywhere in the world, and then perform preliminary calculations.
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Expanding Offshore Wind to Emerging Markets
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In October 2019, ESMAP released Going Global: Expanding Offshore Wind To Emerging Markets. This report presents eight case studies on the technical potential for offshore wind in Brazil, India, Morocco, the Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and Vietnam. Considering offshore areas within 200 km of the coast, it found that these eight countries have a total technical potential of approximately 3.1 TW, including 1,016 GW of fixed capacity and 2,066 GW of floating capacity. The conclusion is the resource is massive and developing countries are well placed to benefit from the offshore wind sector.
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Floating Solar
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In June 2019 ESMAP released Floating Solar Market Report, from Where Sun Meets Water series. Floating solar photovoltaic (FPV) installations open new opportunities for scaling up solar generating capacity, especially in countries with high population density and competing uses for available land. Advantages of floating solar over land-based systems include higher energy yield, reduced evaporation, and improved water quality, among others. In FY20, it followed up that work with a Floating Solar Handbook for Practitioners focusing on technical aspects relating to developing and operating FPV projects, with considerations on environmental and social aspects of FPV projects. The series Where Sun Meets Water informs several ESMAP grants in Bangladesh, Myanmar, and West Africa, as well as World Bank operations in India and Maldives.
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Energy Storage Partnership Reports
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Over the course of the Energy Storage Program’s (ESP) first year of operation in FY20, ESMAP published a series of seminal reports on battery storage in developing countries exploring: warranties for battery storage systems, policy and regulatory considerations for deploying storage for power systems, and reusing and recycling of lithium-ion batteries. It also completed a working paper on Scaling Up Sustainable Energy Storage in Developing Countries and guidelines for cost-benefit analysis.
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Clean Cooking Behavioral Diagnostic
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In November 2019, ESMAP released the Uganda Clean Cooking Behavioral Diagnostic, integrating primary and secondary research with a decision-making theoretical framework for understanding and affecting behavioral change and consumer decisions around the use of efficient biomass stoves. The interventions were implemented as a result of the study. Recommendations included use of market activations, radio announcements, digital marketing, and social media outreach. These interventions became crucial in raising awareness about the set of products supported by the program and provided a medium through which users could explore different models and decide which product is right for them.
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Replicating Slum Electrification
Products
In December 2019, the program released a LiveWire issue on the challenge of bringing utilities, governments, and local stakeholders together to reverse the downward spiral of poor service, lack of investment, and electricity theft, and to extend regularized electrification within slums.
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Off-Grid Solar Market Trends
Products
In March 2020, ESMAP released the Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2020, which was prepared jointly with the IFC and the Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA). It found that the sector would need an additional boost of up to $11 billion in financing to meet SDG7. Specifically, the off-grid sector would need to grow at an accelerated rate of 13 percent, with up to $7.7 billion in external investment to companies and up to $3.4 billion of public funding to bridge the affordability gap.
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Funding the Sun
Products
In February 2020, ESMAP released Funding the Sun, a report which elucidates the role of financial innovation in the off-grid solar sector. It provides a roadmap for practitioners, financiers, and entrepreneurs navigating capital raises for companies active in the sector. It examines a full range of established and frontier financing options, and it illustrates that some technology-enabled financial innovations, such as peer-to-peer business lending, are already playing an important role in the sector.
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Productive
Uses Leveraging Solar Energy
Products
Having already led to hundreds of millions of people benefitting from off-grid solar products ranging from lanterns to solar home systems (SHS), products are now developing along the sector’s newest frontier—productive uses leveraging solar energy (PULSE). These can provide livelihoods for off-grid households and microenterprises across the agricultural, industrial, commercial, and public sectors. In September 2019, Lighting Global released The Market Opportunity for Productive Use Leveraging Solar Energy in Sub-Saharan Africa that explored the market for these new applications, and later a blog that highlighted the importance of such applications (including electrical irrigation systems and refrigeration) for empowering African farmers.
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Responding to Crisis
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Responding to Crisis
Introduction
While the world faces the existential challenge of global climate change, this year an additional global existential crisis arrived in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic. As the World Bank pivoted to deliver emergency response to others while engulfed in its own state of emergency, the challenge for its energy sector activity has been to support the delivery of critical energy services while laying the groundwork for economic recovery and long-term growth trajectory.
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Adapting the Nigeria Mini Grids Program
With the onset of the pandemic in Nigeria, the mini grids component of the National Electrification Project (NEP) was expanded to include emergency response to provide reliable power to 500 COVID-19 related health facilities (including 100 isolation centers and 400 primary healthcare centers) with an expected 300 sites turning to solar mini grids. The proposed direct procurement of solar hybrid power solutions, with an estimated budget of $71.4 million, focuses on modular systems for fast mobilization that can provide instant basic services for emergency operations and adequate power for equipment used for testing and treating COVID-19 related cases, as well as steady water supply where needed.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of reliable energy services for powering healthcare facilities, supplying clean water for essential hygiene, and providing cold-chains for the distribution of medicines and an eventual vaccine. The mini grid and off-grid sectors, which played such an important and role in narrowing the access gap in the past decade, have also become increasingly responsible for electrifying rural health centers, schools and other public institutions with major impacts on human capital, as highlighted in a May 2020 issue of LiveWire.
COVID-19 hit off-grid companies particularly hard. Often start-ups, these vulnerable companies were unable to subscribe new customers due to lockdown; they faced defaults from existing customers; and supply chain disruptions affected importation, inventory, and in-country logistics.
Keeping Off-grid Solar Viable
An April 2020 SEforALL questionnaire found that solar-home-system companies expected a 27 percent decline in revenues due to the crisis, mini grid companies expected a 40 percent decline, and most had less than two months of OPEX available. Without sufficient liquidity to bridge the crisis, off-grid start-ups and SMEs were struggling to survive.
ESMAP supported the World Bank’s rapid response by helping to identify projects where rapid deployment of off-grid systems could provide immediate energy services to critical services, and also provide liquidity to off-grid companies in need of bridge financing. It developed a COVID 19 Strategy Note and sample terms of reference to guide energy professionals (internal and external) designing projects electrifying health centers at forefront of fighting COVID 19; a catalog (Powering Health Care) of diverse private sector solar solutions to electrify health centers in response to COVID 19 (jointly with Sustainable
Keeping Off-grid Solar Viable
Keeping Off-grid Solar Viable
Energy for All); and technical guidance for sustaining cold chains that are essential for COVID testing and vaccine delivery (Energy Requirements for COVID 19 Testing). Together with GOGLA and other partners, ESMAP produced “Off-grid Solar: An Essential Service in the Fight against COVID-19”, providing information to Governments and other stakeholders on how off-grid solar sector can be leveraged in addressing COVID-19. ESMAP also contributed to the design and implementation of the COVID-19 Energy Access Industry Barometer survey, assessing impact
of COVID-19 on mini grid, off-grid solar and clean cooking companies (led by EnDev).
ESMAP also rallied its convening power in the COVID response to energy access. Together with GOGLA and other partners it co-organized the COVID-19 Energy Access Summit, which brought together energy access practitioners to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on mini grid and off-grid companies and design strategies for their mitigation and inclusive recovery.
It also co-organized with SEforALL and Ashden a COVID-19 Energy Access Donor Roundtable to discuss impacts of COVID-19 on energy access and how donors can support the sector.
Lighting Global has banded together with partners and industry stakeholders to address the most pressing issues, including working to designate off-grid as an essential service in energy-deficit countries and to develop important early interventions to support the industry through the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Supporting the delivery of off-grid energy services to health centers, and testing sites, has also taken center-stage to aid in the fight against COVID, and will likely shape Lighting Global’s activities for months, and perhaps years, to come.
Keeping Off-grid Solar Viable
As electricity access for critical health services became a major priority, in June 2020, ESMAP launched a tool to help solve electricity shortages for health care facilities responding to COVID-19 in an affordable, resilient manner. The HOMER Powering Health Tool is intended for project managers, engineers and financiers working with hospitals and clinics in developing countries where grid electricity is unavailable or unreliable.
HOMER
Cooking is an essential daily activity, and the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the interlinkages between traditional cooking, gender, health, and environment. People who lack access to clean cooking and exposed to household air pollution are more vulnerable to contracting the virus. Furthermore, due to the global economic disruption of the pandemic, the risks of slowing down the uptake or regressing the progress of clean cooking is high. It is possible that more people will go back to traditional biomass (firewood and charcoal) for cooking with significant health, social, and environment impacts. ESMAP has been working with the governments and development partners to highlight those linkages and advocate for clean cooking fuels to protect lives and livelihoods as part of the pandemic emergency response and recovery plans.
Clean
Cooking
One of the tangential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic was a major collapse in fossil fuel prices in early 2020. Typically, periods of low fossil fuel prices are when there is the greatest political opportunity for removing subsidies. However, the price collapse also coincided with an economic crisis that already reduced the ability of rate-payers to meet obligations, and removing state support in such a crisis is difficult. Subsidy removal, which disproportionately impacts the poor, also requires simultaneous compensation and mitigating support.
A Good Time for Subsidy Reform?
For governments facing multiple crises and also hit by macroeconomic shocks (particularly among fossil fuel exporters), the fiscal space and implementation capacity may be insufficient to provide the necessary mitigating support.
However, governments today can start introducing measures that prepare the country for future subsidy removal, like working on social safety nets. ESMAP and the World Bank have focused support on building more resilient and sensitive social safety nets to protect those hit by crisis now, while also creating a more conducive environment to subsidy removal in the future.
A Good Time for Subsidy Reform?
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WePOWER in South Asia
GENDER
PARTNERSHIPS
Location: India
In India, the South Asia Gender and Energy Facility (SAGE) supported Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) to improve their human resources practices and policies to target, attract and recruit more women in the sector. These improvements were carried out in alignment with the methodology and ‘pillars’ of the Women in Power Sector Network in South Asia (WePOWER).
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WePOWER has been expanding its local chapters in the region thanks to the support of stakeholders including the Asian Development Bank (ADB). WePOWER pillars are now being implemented in Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and possibly Nepal. These local chapters will partially assume the interim-secretariat's responsibilities and help in engagement with WePOWER partners. During 2020, the Regional Conference was attended by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the French Development Agency, contributing to knowledge exchange among the participants. During this regional conference, EESL presented their gender assessment under the WePOWER methodology.
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Thanks to this partnership, other World Bank projects in India and Pakistan are interested in implementing similar actions for deep-dive gender support that integrate the WePOWER pillars to foster female labor force participation.
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Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (K-CEP)
Energy Efficiency
PARTNERSHIPS
Location: ?
The collaboration between ESMAP and K-CEP goes beyond the seed funding to establish the Efficient Clean Cooling program. The funding has indeed been critical to support important TA activities across the WBG to essentially help develop a new sustainable cooling business line at the Bank with the aim of scaling and mainstreaming “cooling-informed” operations. It also facilitated linking ESMAP’s Efficient, Clean Cooling program to the broader cooling community and helped leverage knowledge and expertise to better inform ESMAP-supported cooling activities. The support was key to help ESMAP raise the profile and awareness around cooling within the WBG. In fact, ESMAP’s contribution to greater “institutionalization” of cooling within ESMAP and at the Bank was recognized at the K-CEP Annual Meeting in February 2020.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Icelandic Support for Geothermal
RENEWABLE ENERGY
PARTNERSHIPS
Location: Iceland
ESMAP Global Geothermal Development Plan (GGDP) benefitted greatly from in-kind services provided by experts hired and provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iceland. In addition to the in-kind services, the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs funded two full scholarships for women from the Caribbean at the 6-month United Nations University Geothermal Training Program, which has the mandate to assist low- and middle-income countries to establish local specialists in geothermal exploration and development.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Nnergix Solar Forecast Data Flow
RENEWABLE ENERGY
PARTNERSHIPS
Location: ?
ESMAP developed an online software tool that would be able to provide a stable solar energy forecast data flow, for power plants located in emerging countries. Addressing mainly grid operators and power producers, this tool for solar PV forecasting will help them to integrate solar power onto the grid.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Health and Energy Platform of Action
Energy Access
PARTNERSHIPS
Location: ?
In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Access for Host Communities & Refugees
Energy Access
PARTNERSHIPS
Location: ?
Notable collaboration has taken place with the Sahel Alliance working in areas impacted by violence and Boko Haram activity, as well as with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and across World Bank activities (including Lighting Global and the Global Facility on Mini-Grids).
In December 2019, ESMAP was represented at the Global Refugee Forum to raise awareness of energy access issues in those contexts.
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The Host-Communities and Refugees initiative will continue to actively engage with other international organizations like Practical Action or the Global Plan for Action, and expand its existing collaborations with, for example UNHCR’ s data and energy units.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Lighting Global Partnerships for Off-Grid Solar
Energy Access
PARTNERSHIPS
Location: Africa
Lighting Global has developed strong partnerships with governments, the private sector, development agencies, and other stakeholders to build thriving off-grid markets. Lighting Global works closely with and through organizations supporting universal electrification, such as Global Off-Grid Lighting Association (GOGLA), Shell Foundation, USAID/Power Africa, DFID (now FCDO), ACE, and SEforAll as part of the Community of Champions group. Lighting Global regularly collaborates with other sectors to ensure the appropriateness and sustainability of electrification efforts for schools (education), farmers (agriculture), and medical centers (health). Existing partnerships with health professionals are proving particularly valuable in rapidly scaling up energy access efforts for health clinics in light of the COVID-19 crisis.
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In addition, Lighting Global has helped to establish new entities to provide core functionalities. In FY20, this includes VeraSol (2020) which was established to carry out quality assurance activities previously led by Lighting Global in collaboration with the Schatz Energy Research Center and CLASP.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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GIZ & Mini Grids
Energy Access
PARTNERSHIPS
Location: Germany
ESMAP and GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), the German international development agency, have engaged in successful cooperation to enhance the mini grid sector in Nigeria and Myanmar. GIZ provides technical assistance to link the private and public sector in these countries, where ESMAP is financing the scale-up of the sector. In Nigeria, the GIZ Nigerian Energy Support Program provided technical assistance to the Nigerian government in implementing the framework for an open mini grid market. Based on this framework, the World Bank provided a loan to the government that it in turn distributes grants to private mini grid developers.
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The GFMG collaborates with a large number of stakeholders, including mini grid developers, government officials, financiers, technology providers, researchers, project implementation partners, development partners, and recognized experts. Beyond GIZ, exceptionally productive collaborations have taken place with AMDA, Castalia, HOMER, IEEE, INENSUS, NREL, Odyssey, RMI, Rockefeller Foundation, TTA, and Village Infrastructure Angels.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Subsidy Reform
Energy Subsidy Reform Facility
Results
Location: Global
Policies and regulatory changes recommended by the ESMAP Energy Subsidy Reform Facility in FY20 contributed to significant achievements in energy subsidy reforms globally:
Ethiopia | The government announced the implementation of a second electricity tariff increase under the multi-year electricity tariff increase framework.
Ecuador | The government appointed a commission to set up fuel prices and increase transparency in price setting, aiming to reduce fuel subsidies as a share of gross domestic product (GDP).
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Angola | The government issued a decision to initiate electricity tariff revision, as part of the utilities pricing and subsidies reform.
Mali | The government increased medium voltage and public lighting tariffs to align them with the consumer price index; removed connection cost subsidies for medium voltage users.
Togo | To strengthen the financial viability of the power sector, the government issued an inter-ministerial arrêté authorizing the Regulation Authority to determine the periodic adjustment of the revenue requirement for the national utility (CEET) to reach financial equilibrium.
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Tunisia | The government issued a circular to establish a mechanism for the payment of bill to state-owned enterprises in core public services to reduce receivables and cash-flow challenges and ensure quality services particularly during COVID-19 recovery.
Uzbekistan | The government adopted a tariff methodology consistent with principles of full cost-recovery for the provision of electricity.
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ESMAP AND THE WORLD BANK
INTRODUCTION
RESPONDING TO CRISIS
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The World Bank Group (WBG) is one of the world’s largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries.
INTRODUCTION
A Good Time for
Subsidy Reform?
For governments facing multiple crises and also hit by macroeconomic shocks (particularly among fossil fuel exporters), the fiscal space and implementation capacity may be insufficient to provide the necessary mitigating support.
However, governments today can start introducing measures that prepare the country for future subsidy removal, like working on social safety nets. ESMAP and the World Bank have focused support on building more resilient and sensitive social safety nets to protect those hit by crisis now, while also creating a more conducive environment to subsidy removal in the future.
A Good Time for
Subsidy Reform?
One of the tangential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic was a major collapse in fossil fuel prices in early 2020. Typically, periods of low fossil fuel prices are when there is the greatest political opportunity for removing subsidies. However, the price collapse also coincided with an economic crisis that already reduced the ability of rate-payers to meet obligations, and removing state support in such a crisis is difficult. Subsidy removal, which disproportionately impacts the poor, also requires simultaneous compensation and mitigating support.
Clean
Cooking
Cooking is an essential daily activity, and the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the interlinkages between traditional cooking, gender, health, and environment. People who lack access to clean cooking and exposed to household air pollution are more vulnerable to contracting the virus. Furthermore, due to the global economic disruption of the pandemic, the risks of slowing down the uptake or regressing the progress of clean cooking is high. It is possible that more people will go back to traditional biomass (firewood and charcoal) for cooking with significant health, social, and environment impacts. ESMAP has been working with the governments and development partners to highlight those linkages and advocate for clean cooking fuels to protect lives and livelihoods as part of the pandemic emergency response and recovery plans.
HOMER
As electricity access for critical health services became a major priority, in June 2020, ESMAP launched a tool to help solve electricity shortages for health care facilities responding to COVID-19 in an affordable, resilient manner. The HOMER Powering Health Tool is intended for project managers, engineers and financiers working with hospitals and clinics in developing countries where grid electricity is unavailable or unreliable.
Learn more
Keeping Off-grid Solar Viable
It also co-organized with SEforALL and Ashden a COVID-19 Energy Access Donor Roundtable to discuss impacts of COVID-19 on energy access and how donors can support the sector.
Lighting Global has banded together with partners and industry stakeholders to address the most pressing issues, including working to designate off-grid as an essential service in energy-deficit countries and to develop important early interventions to support the industry through the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Supporting the delivery of off-grid energy services to health centers, and testing sites, has also taken center-stage to aid in the fight against COVID, and will likely shape Lighting Global’s activities for months, and perhaps years, to come.
Keeping Off-grid Solar Viable
Energy for All); and technical guidance for sustaining cold chains that are essential for COVID testing and vaccine delivery (Energy Requirements for COVID 19 Testing). Together with GOGLA and other partners, ESMAP produced “Off-grid Solar: An Essential Service in the Fight against COVID-19”, providing information to Governments and other stakeholders on how off-grid solar sector can be leveraged in addressing COVID-19. ESMAP also contributed to the design and implementation of the COVID-19 Energy Access Industry Barometer survey, assessing impact of COVID-19 on mini grid, off-grid solar and clean cooking companies (led by EnDev). ESMAP also rallied its convening power in the COVID response to energy access. Together with GOGLA and other partners it co-organized the COVID-19 Energy Access Summit, which brought together energy access practitioners to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on mini grid and off-grid companies and design strategies for their mitigation and inclusive recovery.
Keeping Off-grid Solar Viable
An April 2020 SEforALL questionnaire found that solar-home-system companies expected a 27 percent decline in revenues due to the crisis, mini grid companies expected a 40 percent decline, and most had less than two months of OPEX available. Without sufficient liquidity to bridge the crisis, off-grid start-ups and SMEs were struggling to survive.
ESMAP supported the World Bank’s rapid response by helping to identify projects where rapid deployment of off-grid systems could provide immediate energy services to critical services, and also provide liquidity to off-grid companies in need of bridge financing. It developed a COVID 19 Strategy Note and sample terms of reference to guide energy professionals (internal and external) designing projects electrifying health centers at forefront of fighting COVID 19; a catalog (Powering Health Care) of diverse private sector solar solutions to electrify health centers in response to COVID 19 (jointly with Sustainable
Keeping Off-grid Solar Viable
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of reliable energy services for powering healthcare facilities, supplying clean water for essential hygiene, and providing cold-chains for the distribution of medicines and an eventual vaccine. The mini grid and off-grid sectors, which played such an important and role in narrowing the access gap in the past decade, have also become increasingly responsible for electrifying rural health centers, schools and other public institutions with major impacts on human capital, as highlighted in a May 2020 issue of LiveWire.
COVID-19 hit off-grid companies particularly hard. Often start-ups, these vulnerable companies were unable to subscribe new customers due to lockdown; they faced defaults from existing customers; and supply chain disruptions affected importation, inventory, and in-country logistics.
Adapting the Nigeria Mini
Grids Program
With the onset of the pandemic in Nigeria, the mini grids component of the National Electrification Project (NEP) was expanded to include emergency response to provide reliable power to 500 COVID-19 related health facilities (including 100 isolation centers and 400 primary healthcare centers) with an expected 300 sites turning to solar mini grids. The proposed direct procurement of solar hybrid power solutions, with an estimated budget of $71.4 million, focuses on modular systems for fast mobilization that can provide instant basic services for emergency operations and adequate power for equipment used for testing and treating COVID-19 related cases, as well as steady water supply where needed.
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Nigeria Mini Grids
Energy Access
Results
Location: Nigeria
In December 2019, the Federal Government of Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency (REA) facilitated the commissioning of a solar hybrid mini grid power plant in Rokota Community, Edati Local Government Area, Niger State. It will provide clean, safe, and reliable electricity to an expected 3,000 people in the community, including for the local clinic. The project is the first to be commissioned under the World Bank-supported Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP) Mini Grids component, which represents a World Bank investment commitment of $150 million for 850 mini grids by 2024, with ESMAP providing comprehensive support to Nigeria to help scale up mini grids. To date, more than 120 mini grids are under preparation and the project is expected to provide more than 1.5 million people with access to electricity.
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By the end of June 2020, a key milestone of the overall NEP project was achieved by providing electricity to 250,000 people through solar mini grids as well as solar standalone systems. The milestone represents a confirmation of the interest by the private sector to develop mini grid projects and to sell high quality, Lighting Global-certified, standalone solar systems on commercial basis under NEP.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Lighting Global in Myanmar
Energy Access
Results
Location: Myanmar
In Myanmar, Lighting Global has been instrumental in developing sustainable public- and private-led off-grid business models as part of the National Electrification Project (NEP). ESMAP helped to develop and implement a “management of information system” to provide the government with an efficient way to track household system-size choices and installation progress through the provision of several layers of data—household surveys, installation, verification, and payment. This system is a first of its kind, ensuring timely reporting and decision making, and can be replicated in other electrification programs. Solar home system installations for clinics, schools, religious facilities, and streetlights have further extended the benefits to entire communities, reaching almost 7,400 off-grid villages in Myanmar, to date.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Lighting Africa in Ethiopia
Energy Access
Results
Location: Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, the ESMAP-supported Lighting Africa program designed the Market Development for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficient Product Credit Line, which is a revolving fund providing loans to private sector enterprises and microfinance institutions to expand the local renewable energy market and increase affordability of renewable energy products for households under the Electricity Network Reinforcement and Expansion Project (ENREP). Twenty-six private sector businesses are currently using the credit line, importing and selling solar products that meet Lighting Global Quality Standards, and 14 microfinance institutions are currently providing energy financing options to households using funds accessed through the credit line.
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The credit facility has a remarkable zero percent rate of default. The first of its kind, the credit facility is now being replicated in almost 20 countries across Africa. To date, the credit line has successfully supported the purchase of 1.2 million solar products and provided loans through microfinance institutions to more than 211,000 rural households, 60 percent of which are female headed.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Rohingya Refugee Solar
Energy Access
Results
Location: Bangladesh
In FY20, ESMAP supported the preparation of a $5 million energy subcomponent of the Emergency Multisector Rohingya Crisis Response Project (EMRCRP) and an assessment of energy service needs for Rohingya communities in refugee camps in the Cox Bazaar region of Bangladesh. The EMRCRP subcomponent will finance approximately 100 solar nano-grids in the camp area to increase access to clean and sustainable electricity to energy-poor households and shared facilities like health centers and learning centers.
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The ESMAP fund so far has been used for energy need assessment, camp survey for potential sites for the nano-grids, consultations with stakeholders, rapid assessment of energy needs in medical facilities for refugee and host communities, and ongoing work for detailed site identification and design for the first set of nano-grids to be installed on the rooftops of multipurpose service centers, also funded by the EMRCRP.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Resource Mapping in Pakistan
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Results
Location: Pakistan
Engagement in Pakistan started with resource mapping activities which were the first comprehensive country-wide efforts to identify the energy generation potential from biomass, solar, and wind resources. The solar mapping was completed at a point when private developer interest in solar generation is strong and growing and the dataset has become one of the most downloaded datasets from Energydata.info. The wind mapping has identified new, previously unknown, corridors of high wind power potential, for example, in Balochistan. This activity was the first non-hydropower renewable energy engagement by the World Bank in Pakistan and has paved the way for much stronger engagement by the WBG in this growing subsector.
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Subsequent ESMAP-funded grant supported the Government in its energy sector reform agenda by strengthening the capacity of key agencies to plan for the cost-effective deployment of renewable energy and its integration into the national grid. Results of the Variable Renewable Energy Integration and Planning Study have already informed the targets of the government’s Alternative & Renewable Energy Policy 2020, and also improved the capacity of the National Transmission & Despatch Company to develop a least-cost generation plan using modern tools and equipment to facilitate increased penetration of renewable energy.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Solar & Storage in Maldives
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Results
Location: Maldives
ESMAP has supported the Maldives’ path to decarbonization on several fronts. A two-year solar resource data collection venture, included the first use of light detection and ranging (LIDAR) installations for wind measurements under the ESMAP’s global resource mapping program and helped formulate the country’s renewable energy strategy. The Sustainable Renewables Risk Mitigation Initiative (SRMI) approach, and knowledge built through the Energy Storage Partnership, informed the World Bank-supported Accelerating Sustainable Private Investment in Renewable Energy (ASPIRE) project through prefeasibility studies. The small island nation was able to mobilize private sector investors for projects totaling 6.5 MW, and bring in revolutionary tariffs through best practices highlighted in the four components of SRMI.
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The Government of the Maldives has been engaged with the World Bank under the Accelerating Renewable Energy Integration and Sustainable Energy (ARISE) program to implement 21 MW of large scale solar PV (including 10 MW of floating solar), battery deployment and grid modernization to enable VRE integration and provide technical assistance for institutional capacity building and pipeline development. The work cuts across the energy sector in the Maldives and will serve as best practice for other Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to replicate.
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In a September 2020 interview, the Environment Minister Hussain Rasheed Hassan highlighted the impact of ASPIRE and ARISE in expanding investment in grids and renewable generation, partly by increasing the confidence of renewable energy investors through the provision of payment guarantees.
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Energy security in Tuvalu
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Results
Location: Tuvalu
A $2.1 million grant through ESMAP’s Small Island Developing States (SIDS) DOCK Support Program is playing a key role in helping Tuvalu achieve energy security by reducing its dependence on imported fuel to generate power, and by improving the efficiency and sustainability of its electricity system by providing the support for a solar photovoltaics (PV) facility (750kW solar PV and 2 MWh battery energy storage system, BESS). The project will more than double Tuvalu’s use of solar from 8% to 20% and marks the first commercial-scale largest installation of solar PV and first BESS system in Tuvalu/Micronesia.
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On the regional scale, the comprehensive support from ESMAP and the SIDS DOCK Support Program funded a variable renewable energy (VRE) grid integration study for all the Pacific Island country utilities, including a $3.5 million grant funding a regional activity capacity focusing on capacity building and the development of the technical and institutional capacity of the Pacific Island Utilities (PICs). This collective effort has helped the utilities get more familiar with solar PV and battery storage generation assets, and has led to the successful procurement in Tuvalu, and also the successful procurement for a 4 MW solar and 1 MWh BESS in the Marshall Islands.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Sustainable Energy in Pakistan
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Results
Location: Pakistan
In Pakistan, high power costs from imported fuels and expensive power purchasing agreements prompted the government to begin realigning power generation costs and accelerating renewable energy deployments. ESMAP is engaged in strengthening the energy transition with market development of off-grid access, supporting energy efficiency, improving transmission and distribution, and enabling new renewable energy supply to the national grid. ESMAP’s resource mapping activities were the first comprehensive country-wide efforts to identify the energy generation potential from biomass, solar, and wind resources, and was the first non-hydropower renewable energy engagement by the World Bank in Pakistan.
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Results of “Variable Renewable Energy (VRE) Integration and Planning Study" commissioned under the grant indicate that a combined capacity of less than 30 percent from solar and wind power is possible and desirable in Pakistan, with multiple benefits, including cost savings through reduced fuel consumption, improved energy security, and reduced carbon intensity. The results of this study have already informed the targets of the government’s Alternative & Renewable Energy Policy 2020. An ESMAP grant is also supporting development of a roadmap for scaling-up of renewable energy in Khyber, Paktunkhwa.
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The Pakistan power sector was hit hard by COVID-19, with electricity demand plunging for commercial users by 75 percent and for industrial users by 60 percent in March 2020, when revenues fell 61 percent below expectations. The crisis underscored the need to rapidly transition the energy sector, further motivating the government move forward with this cooperation.
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Solar Irrigation in India
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Results
Location: India
ESMAP’s support to scaling up solar often impacts cross-cutting sectoral issues, such as the energy-water-agriculture nexus in India. Following the dissemination in December 2019 of a key report on this topic prepared by the World Bank’s Water Global Practice and buttressed by the Energy and Agriculture Global Practices, ESMAP-funded technical assistance supported the preparation of a pilot for grid connected solar irrigation systems on two electricity feeders identified by Rajasthan. The project yielded a standard package of documents for solar irrigation systems, including farmer due diligence documents, financial analysis reports, standard procurement documents, and customized power purchase agreements between farmers and the utility.
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The impact of this ESMAP funded activity will go beyond Rajasthan. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) intends to use these documents to inform its national scheme to provide support to Indian states in implementing solar irrigation systems. Addressing nexus issues requires a collaborative and well-coordinated team effort by the World Bank among its global practices to provide clients with innovative and contextually appropriate solutions.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Geothermal Direct Use and Gender
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Results
Location: El Salvador
Under the Global Geothermal Development Plan (GGDP), ESMAP continued to support gender equality by working closely with regional specialists and following up on the suggestions identified in the report Gender Equality in the Geothermal Sector – Road to Sustainability published in April 2019. During FY20, ESMAP worked with the World Bank team preparing the geothermal project in El Salvador to address gender biases in corporate culture. This activity was based on a pilot implemented by WING (New Zealand) and is referred to as WINGmen Special Taskforce: Train the Trainee. A workshop was organized and held in December 2020 in El Salvador in partnership with the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), WING, and LaGEo. The workshop participants came from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, and Costa Rica.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Geothermal in Turkey
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Results
Location: Turkey
To support Turkey’s shift towards renewable energy, ESMAP’s Global Geothermal Development Plan (GGDP) helped leverage a $350 million project to scale up private sector investment for geothermal development by reducing the risks taken on by investors during early-stage drilling. This has been done through a Risk Sharing Mechanism (RSM) and by providing access to long-term financing. Turkish citizens benefit from new economic and employment opportunities created, and the global community benefits from the lessons learned through the use of the risk-sharing facility in designing similar mechanisms to stimulate geothermal exploration in other markets.
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GGDP activities supported 42 MW of geothermal power capacity coming online in Turkey in FY20, and an additional 12 MW in August 2020, for a total capacity of 253 MW across the country.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Designing Sustainable Financing Mechanisms
Energy Efficiency
Results
Location: Kosovo
In the Western Balkans, ESMAP supported the identification of options for energy efficiency investments in the public sector, including the structuring of revolving financing mechanisms. As a result of these activities, the Government of Kosovo established the Kosovo Energy Efficiency Fund as an independent, autonomous, and sustainable entity. With funding and cooperation from the European Commission, the World Bank supported the capitalization and operationalization of the Fund, which identifies, finances, and implements municipal energy efficiency projects through energy service agreements (ESAs).
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Energy service agreements allow the Fund to finance the energy efficiency investments in municipal buildings or facilities, such as building energy efficiency renovations or street lighting retrofits, and to recover the investment and the Fund’s operation costs through collecting payments from the municipalities based on the energy cost savings achieved by the investments. Generally, leveraging funds with partners (such as the European Union) and strengthening institutions proved to be a particularly effective approach. Building local capacity to implement projects introduces a more sustainable financing structure to efficiency programs and facilitates replication in other sectors, such as public buildings or the water sector.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Energy Efficiency in Uzbekistan’s Water Utilities
Energy Efficiency
Results
Location: Uzbekistan
In Uzbekistan, a World Bank grant supported the design of an energy efficiency financing facility for cost-effective investments in the Suvokovas (water utilities). This work included the analysis of incentives and constraints of the credit facility for water utilities and participating financial institutions (PFIs); gaps in the legal and regulatory framework; and the definition of key on-lending terms, conditions, and rules for the credit facility between the Ministry of Finance and PFIs and between PFIs and the borrowing water utilities. These terms and conditions included the eligibility criteria for water utilities, credit line thresholds, currency of the loan and currency of repayment, a method to calculate the interest charged on the principal amount, among other things, as well as potential eligible investments.
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Finally, it included the determination of capacity building and training requirements for the PFIs to support a successful implementation of the financing facility and an action plan to support the transition towards increasing commercial finance within the water supply and sanitation sector.
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ESMAP also supported this wider project with energy efficiency audits and a pre-feasibility study for the Namangan water utility as a pilot demonstration project, and the preparation of a sector reform roadmap, including energy efficiency actions; policy advice for mid-term planning and tariff setting, which details specific provisions for incentivizing and capturing energy efficiency gains; and a series of training and capacity building activities for utility staff at the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services.
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Closing Gaps in Women’s Employment in Ethiopia and Kenya
GENDER
Results
Location: Ethiopia and Kenya
Through the Energy and Economic Growth (EEG) joint research program administered by ESMAP and DFID (now FCDO), a program dedicated to Closing Gaps in Women’s Employment in the Energy Sector, was established for South Asia and Africa, and is focused on establishing baseline data and stakeholder engagement and providing knowledge and advisory support to operational teams and clients.
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In Ethiopia, supported by the World Bank Group, ESMAP Africa Gender and Energy Program and the State and Peacebuilding Fund Gender-Based Violence grant, the Ethiopia Electric Utility (EEU) allocated $4.5 million to closing gender gaps and citizen engagement. EEU’s approach started with developing a pipeline of future workers. It signed a unique partnership agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and 12 Ethiopian universities to provide courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Improved STEM instruction is essential to upskill the existing female staff footprint so that they match male employees in education attainments and can advance their careers the energy sector.
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In Kenya, support was focused on designing a women’s scholarship component of the proposed Kenya Electricity Sector Improvement Project with Kenya Power and Lighting Co. Ltd. The program conducted interviews with key faculty and administration of the Institute for Energy Studies and Research (the utility’s training center), as well as focus groups with current female students. Key issues to be resolved were identified and recommendations were developed for the scholarships. A virtual briefing was conducted with the utility’s Manager of Learning and Development to review the findings and best practices for scholarship programs.
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Energy Sector Reform in Uzbekistan
GOVERNANCE, MARKETS, & PLANNING
Results
Location: Uzbekstan
The West Africa Regional Energy Trade Development Policy Financing Program seeks to remove barriers to electricity trade, which will lower electricity costs for consumers, support the competitiveness of firms, and improve resilience and reliability of supply.
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Reform objectives of the government include: addressing inadequate financial and operational performance; modernizing infrastructure and improving energy service delivery; strengthening the institutional and market structure; commercialization of the energy utilities; and development of an enabling policy and regulatory framework in the energy sector. In August 2019, the government adopted the Electricity Sector Reform Implementation Plan (ESRIP), which is currently being executed by the ministries and sector utilities.
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ESMAP’s PASA support has encouraged the development of renewable energy in Uzbekistan and provided support in sustainable financing to scale up demand-side energy efficiency. Finally, it has provided policy, advisory, analytical, technical, and coordination support, and capacity building to implement the comprehensive energy sector reforms that are now underway.
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West African Power Pool
GOVERNANCE, MARKETS, & PLANNING
Results
Location: West Africa
Over the past decade, member countries of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) have been working through the West Africa Power Pool (WAPP) towards a fully integrated power market. The West Africa Power Pool has done the fundamental work of interconnecting national grids, but policy coordination is necessary to realize the full strength of the regional power market. Coordinated policies paired with effective institutions and regulatory frameworks will help improve trust in the electricity trade and usher in a new era of affordable and reliable energy in West Africa.
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The goal is to facilitate trade of cleaner, low-cost electricity generated from gas, hydropower, and renewable energy across borders, and to replace more expensive electricity generated from inefficient, small-scale oil-fired and diesel generation, and to improve the reliability of electricity services.
ESMAP’s analytical work on policy reform underpinned a Directive adopted by the Heads of State of ECOWAS to implement coordinated reform programs in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, and Sierra Leone. In July 2020, World Bank approved a total of $300 million in credits and grants to support reforms that will help promote electricity trade in West Africa.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Subsidy Reform
Energy Subsidy Reform Facility
Results
Location: Global
Policies and regulatory changes recommended by the ESMAP Energy Subsidy Reform Facility in FY20 contributed to significant achievements in energy subsidy reforms globally:
Ethiopia | The government announced the implementation of a second electricity tariff increase under the multi-year electricity tariff increase framework.
Ecuador | The government appointed a commission to set up fuel prices and increase transparency in price setting, aiming to reduce fuel subsidies as a share of gross domestic product (GDP).
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Angola | The government issued a decision to initiate electricity tariff revision, as part of the utilities pricing and subsidies reform.
Mali | The government increased medium voltage and public lighting tariffs to align them with the consumer price index; removed connection cost subsidies for medium voltage users.
Togo | To strengthen the financial viability of the power sector, the government issued an inter-ministerial arrêté authorizing the Regulation Authority to determine the periodic adjustment of the revenue requirement for the national utility (CEET) to reach financial equilibrium.
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Tunisia | The government issued a circular to establish a mechanism for the payment of bill to state-owned enterprises in core public services to reduce receivables and cash-flow challenges and ensure quality services particularly during COVID-19 recovery.
Uzbekistan | The government adopted a tariff methodology consistent with principles of full cost-recovery for the provision of electricity.
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Rehabilitating the Energy Sector in Yemen
Energy Access
Results
Location: Yemen
Most of the local energy infrastructure in Yemen was damaged or destroyed during the ongoing armed conflict, leaving the electricity access as a major development challenge for the country. ESMAP is supporting local authorities with the aim to improve access to electricity in rural and peri-urban areas. An ESMAP-financed activity has informed the Yemen Emergency Electricity Access Project’s (YEEAP) approach to engaging the private sector. It also has enabled the project to achieve substantial results in FY20 by developing the analytical foundation to restore and expand energy access through the rehabilitation of the energy sector. The outputs from this exercise informed both YEEAP and the Integrated Urban Services Emergency Project, with a total commitment amount of $200 million.
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As of mid-July 2020, 132,000 people had benefited from new or improved electricity access as a result of purchases of subsidized solar kits from the participating multilateral financial institutions, including 18 percent female buyers/borrowers.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Barrio 31 Settlement in Buenos Aires
Energy Access
Results
Location: Argentina
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, ESMAP helped to promote social and urban integration of the Barrio 31 settlement, under the $170 million WBG Metropolitan Buenos Aires Urban Transformation project. The project included the installation of a new electricity grid and improved street lighting. LED lights were installed throughout the Barrio 31 neighborhood and recommendations on the design of sustainable sidewalks were incorporated into planning. In Barrio 31, new housing has been designed incorporating energy and water efficiency measures, such as insulation of roofs and external walls, double-glazed windows, solar thermal water heaters, solar panels, and low-flow showerheads.
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ESMAP technical assistance supported greater energy efficiency of public buildings (e.g., with a green building certification system), and the government staff capacity in solar thermal and photovoltaic was increased through dedicated training.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Clean Cooking in Uganda
Energy Access
Results
Location: Uganda
About 95 percent of Ugandans still use solid biomass fuels for cooking their meals. According to the Tracking SDG7 2020 report, Uganda ranked in the top 10 largest clean cooking access deficit countries (by proportion of people) and third largest by overall population size deficit.
Since 2016, the World Bank provided funding for a $2.2 million pilot project in Uganda which applied a results-based financing grants mechanism and put in place market incentives to help establish eight new manufacturer-distributor partnerships, and introduce five new high-efficiency, quality-assured biomass stoves. As of June 2020, there have been 64,097 stove sales supported by this program, used on average twice a day.
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This project led to 53,754 tons of CO2 reduction each year from the stoves currently in operation (a 30% emission reduction compared to the baseline); a savings of 20,740 tons of charcoal per year (about a 36% average monthly fuel consumption reduction at the household level and associated financial savings); and 30- to 90 minutes per day time savings for women.
Approved in FY20, the Uganda Energy Access Scale-Up Project will also include clean cooking objectives in its $30 to $50 million access-to-finance facility to provide credit guarantees for on-lending by participating financing institutions to clean cooking fuel and technology companies (as well as off-grid solar companies).
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Ethiopia Off-Grid Electrification Forum
Energy Access
Convening Event
Location: Ethiopia
The GFMG holds annual Action Learning Events to discuss issues such as geospatial-based planning, workable regulations, access to finance, and better integration of demand side aspects. In February 2020, the government of Ethiopia, with the support of ESMAP and the UK Department for International Development (DFID, now the FCDO), welcomed over 150 participants at the Ethiopia National Off-Grid Electrification Forum.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Clean Cooking Panels and Workshops
Energy Access
Convening Event
Location: Nairobi
In November 2019, ESMAP co-hosted a panel discussion with the UK Modern Energy Cooking Services Program (MECS) at the Clean Cooking Forum in Nairobi with almost 200 attendees. In April and May 2020, ESMAP hosted two workshops with donors during the Africa Energy Retreat and the Clean Cooking Deep Dive at the annual ESMAP Consultative Group Meetings.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Building Back Better with Hydropower
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The expertise and convening power of ESMAP are key assets in developing sustainable hydropower projects. On 24-25 June 2020, ESMAP convened a seminar on “Building Back Better and Greener with Sustainable Hydropower,” which underlined the vital role that hydropower will continue to play in meeting climate change targets through the clean energy transition, as well as in achieving key Sustainable Development Goals, including the provision of universal electricity access by 2030.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Gender Capacity Building in the Middle East
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In January 2020, the regional gender program for MENA organized a “Workshop on Achieving Sustainable, Low-Carbon Energy Transitions through Citizen Engagement and Gender” in Amman, Jordan. The workshop included 42 participants from across the region and provided an opportunity to deepen the dialogue on energy transitions, low-carbon growth, and the role gender can play in the sector to ensure success.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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During a year marked by the pandemic and economic crisis, ESMAP's knowledge and agility enabled the World Bank to rapidly respond to the COVID-19 global health emergency while laying the groundwork for a more sustainable economic recovery. In Financial Year 2020, in the midst of crisis response, ESMAP closed out a successful 4-year business plan that saw over 85 million people gain access to electricity and more than 37 gigawatts of renewable generation installed through World Bank operations.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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This project led to 53,754 tons of CO2 reduction each year from the stoves currently in operation (a 30% emission reduction compared to the baseline); a savings of 20,740 tons of charcoal per year (about a 36% average monthly fuel consumption reduction at the household level and associated financial savings); and 30- to 90 minutes per day time savings for women.
Approved in FY20, the Uganda Energy Access Scale-Up Project will also include clean cooking objectives in its $30 to $50 million access-to-finance facility to provide credit guarantees for on-lending by participating financing institutions to clean cooking fuel and technology companies (as well as off-grid solar companies).
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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ESMAP technical assistance supported greater energy efficiency of public buildings (e.g., with a green building certification system), and the government staff capacity in solar thermal and photovoltaic was increased through dedicated training.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Nigeria Mini Grids
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Location: Nigeria
In December 2019, the Federal Government of Nigeria’s Rural Electrification Agency (REA) facilitated the commissioning of a solar hybrid mini grid power plant in Rokota Community, Edati Local Government Area, Niger State. It will provide clean, safe, and reliable electricity to an expected 3,000 people in the community, including for the local clinic. The project is the first to be commissioned under the World Bank-supported Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP) Mini Grids component, which represents a World Bank investment commitment of $150 million for 850 mini grids by 2024, with ESMAP providing comprehensive support to Nigeria to help scale up mini grids. To date, more than 120 mini grids are under preparation and the project is expected to provide more than 1.5 million people with access to electricity.
By the end of June 2020, a key milestone of the overall NEP project was achieved by providing electricity to 250,000 people through solar mini grids as well as solar standalone systems. The milestone represents a confirmation of the interest by the private sector to develop mini grid projects and to sell high quality, Lighting Global-certified, standalone solar systems on commercial basis under NEP.
Lighting Global in Myanmar
Location: Myanmar
In Myanmar, Lighting Global has been instrumental in developing sustainable public- and private-led off-grid business models as part of the National Electrification Project (NEP). ESMAP helped to develop and implement a “management of information system” to provide the government with an efficient way to track household system-size choices and installation progress through the provision of several layers of data—household surveys, installation, verification, and payment. This system is a first of its kind, ensuring timely reporting and decision making, and can be replicated in other electrification programs. Solar home system installations for clinics, schools, religious facilities, and streetlights have further extended the benefits to entire communities, reaching almost 7,400 off-grid villages in Myanmar, to date.
Lighting Africa in Ethiopia
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Location: Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, the ESMAP-supported Lighting Africa program designed the Market Development for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficient Product Credit Line, which is a revolving fund providing loans to private sector enterprises and microfinance institutions to expand the local renewable energy market and increase affordability of renewable energy products for households under the Electricity Network Reinforcement and Expansion Project (ENREP). Twenty-six private sector businesses are currently using the credit line, importing and selling solar products that meet Lighting Global Quality Standards, and 14 microfinance institutions are currently providing energy financing options to households using funds accessed through the credit line.
The credit facility has a remarkable zero percent rate of default. The first of its kind, the credit facility is now being replicated in almost 20 countries across Africa. To date, the credit line has successfully supported the purchase of 1.2 million solar products and provided loans through microfinance institutions to more than 211,000 rural households, 60 percent of which are female headed.
Rohingya Refugee Solar
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Location: Bangladesh
In FY20, ESMAP supported the preparation of a $5 million energy subcomponent of the Emergency Multisector Rohingya Crisis Response Project (EMRCRP) and an assessment of energy service needs for Rohingya communities in refugee camps in the Cox Bazaar region of Bangladesh. The EMRCRP subcomponent will finance approximately 100 solar nano-grids in the camp area to increase access to clean and sustainable electricity to energy-poor households and shared facilities like health centers and learning centers.
The ESMAP fund so far has been used for energy need assessment, camp survey for potential sites for the nano-grids, consultations with stakeholders, rapid assessment of energy needs in medical facilities for refugee and host communities, and ongoing work for detailed site identification and design for the first set of nano-grids to be installed on the rooftops of multipurpose service centers, also funded by the EMRCRP.
Rehabilitating the Energy Sector in Yemen
Location: Yemen
Most of the local energy infrastructure in Yemen was damaged or destroyed during the ongoing armed conflict, leaving the electricity access as a major development challenge for the country. ESMAP is supporting local authorities with the aim to improve access to electricity in rural and peri-urban areas. An ESMAP-financed activity has informed the Yemen Emergency Electricity Access Project’s (YEEAP) approach to engaging the private sector. It also has enabled the project to achieve substantial results in FY20 by developing the analytical foundation to restore and expand energy access through the rehabilitation of the energy sector. The outputs from this exercise informed both YEEAP and the Integrated Urban Services Emergency Project, with a total commitment amount of $200 million.
As of mid-July 2020, 132,000 people had benefited from new or improved electricity access as a result of purchases of subsidized solar kits from the participating multilateral financial institutions, including 18 percent female buyers/borrowers.
Barrio 31 Settlement in Buenos Aires
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Location: Argentina
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, ESMAP helped to promote social and urban integration of the Barrio 31 settlement, under the $170 million WBG Metropolitan Buenos Aires Urban Transformation project. The project included the installation of a new electricity grid and improved street lighting. LED lights were installed throughout the Barrio 31 neighborhood and recommendations on the design of sustainable sidewalks were incorporated into planning. In Barrio 31, new housing has been designed incorporating energy and water efficiency measures, such as insulation of roofs and external walls, double-glazed windows, solar thermal water heaters, solar panels, and low-flow showerheads.
ESMAP technical assistance supported greater energy efficiency of public buildings (e.g., with a green building certification system), and the government staff capacity in solar thermal and photovoltaic was increased through dedicated training.
Clean Cooking in Uganda
Location: Uganda
About 95 percent of Ugandans still use solid biomass fuels for cooking their meals. According to the Tracking SDG7 2020 report, Uganda ranked in the top 10 largest clean cooking access deficit countries (by proportion of people) and third largest by overall population size deficit.
Since 2016, the World Bank provided funding for a $2.2 million pilot project in Uganda which applied a results-based financing grants mechanism and put in place market incentives to help establish eight new manufacturer-distributor partnerships, and introduce five new high-efficiency, quality-assured biomass stoves. As of June 2020, there have been 64,097 stove sales supported by this program, used on average twice a day.
This project led to 53,754 tons of CO2 reduction each year from the stoves currently in operation (a 30% emission reduction compared to the baseline); a savings of 20,740 tons of charcoal per year (about a 36% average monthly fuel consumption reduction at the household level and associated financial savings); and 30- to 90 minutes per day time savings for women.
Approved in FY20, the Uganda Energy Access Scale-Up Project will also include clean cooking objectives in its $30 to $50 million access-to-finance facility to provide credit guarantees for on-lending by participating financing institutions to clean cooking fuel and technology companies (as well as off-grid solar companies).
Resource Mapping in Pakistan
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Location: Pakistan
Engagement in Pakistan started with resource mapping activities which were the first comprehensive country-wide efforts to identify the energy generation potential from biomass, solar, and wind resources. The solar mapping was completed at a point when private developer interest in solar generation is strong and growing and the dataset has become one of the most downloaded datasets from Energydata.info. The wind mapping has identified new, previously unknown, corridors of high wind power potential, for example, in Balochistan. This activity was the first non-hydropower renewable energy engagement by the World Bank in Pakistan and has paved the way for much stronger engagement by the WBG in this growing subsector.
Subsequent ESMAP-funded grant supported the Government in its energy sector reform agenda by strengthening the capacity of key agencies to plan for the cost-effective deployment of renewable energy and its integration into the national grid. Results of the Variable Renewable Energy Integration and Planning Study have already informed the targets of the government’s Alternative & Renewable Energy Policy 2020, and also improved the capacity of the National Transmission & Despatch Company to develop a least-cost generation plan using modern tools and equipment to facilitate increased penetration of renewable energy.
Solar & Storage in Maldives
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Location: Maldives
ESMAP has supported the Maldives’ path to decarbonization on several fronts. A two-year solar resource data collection venture, included the first use of light detection and ranging (LIDAR) installations for wind measurements under the ESMAP’s global resource mapping program and helped formulate the country’s renewable energy strategy. The Sustainable Renewables Risk Mitigation Initiative (SRMI) approach, and knowledge built through the Energy Storage Partnership, informed the World Bank-supported Accelerating Sustainable Private Investment in Renewable Energy (ASPIRE) project through prefeasibility studies. The small island nation was able to mobilize private sector investors for projects totaling 6.5 MW, and bring in revolutionary tariffs through best practices highlighted in the four components of SRMI.
ESMAP has supported the Maldives’ path to decarbonization on several fronts. A two-year solar resource data collection venture, included the first use of light detection and ranging (LIDAR) installations for wind measurements under the ESMAP’s global resource mapping program and helped formulate the country’s renewable energy strategy. The Sustainable Renewables Risk Mitigation Initiative (SRMI) approach, and knowledge built through the Energy Storage Partnership, informed the World Bank-supported Accelerating Sustainable Private Investment in Renewable Energy (ASPIRE) project through prefeasibility studies. The small island nation was able to mobilize private sector investors for projects totaling 6.5 MW, and bring in revolutionary tariffs through best practices highlighted in the four components of SRMI.
In a September 2020 interview, the Environment Minister Hussain Rasheed Hassan highlighted the impact of ASPIRE and ARISE in expanding investment in grids and renewable generation, partly by increasing the confidence of renewable energy investors through the provision of payment guarantees.
Energy security in Tuvalu
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Location: Tuvalu
A $2.1 million grant through ESMAP’s Small Island Developing States (SIDS) DOCK Support Program is playing a key role in helping Tuvalu achieve energy security by reducing its dependence on imported fuel to generate power, and by improving the efficiency and sustainability of its electricity system by providing the support for a solar photovoltaics (PV) facility (750kW solar PV and 2 MWh battery energy storage system, BESS). The project will more than double Tuvalu’s use of solar from 8% to 20% and marks the first commercial-scale largest installation of solar PV and first BESS system in Tuvalu/Micronesia.
On the regional scale, the comprehensive support from ESMAP and the SIDS DOCK Support Program funded a variable renewable energy (VRE) grid integration study for all the Pacific Island country utilities, including a $3.5 million grant funding a regional activity capacity focusing on capacity building and the development of the technical and institutional capacity of the Pacific Island Utilities (PICs). This collective effort has helped the utilities get more familiar with solar PV and battery storage generation assets, and has led to the successful procurement in Tuvalu, and also the successful procurement for a 4 MW solar and 1 MWh BESS in the Marshall Islands.
Sustainable Energy in Pakistan
RENEWABLE ENERGY
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Location: Pakistan
In Pakistan, high power costs from imported fuels and expensive power purchasing agreements prompted the government to begin realigning power generation costs and accelerating renewable energy deployments. ESMAP is engaged in strengthening the energy transition with market development of off-grid access, supporting energy efficiency, improving transmission and distribution, and enabling new renewable energy supply to the national grid. ESMAP’s resource mapping activities were the first comprehensive country-wide efforts to identify the energy generation potential from biomass, solar, and wind resources, and was the first non-hydropower renewable energy engagement by the World Bank in Pakistan.
Results of “Variable Renewable Energy (VRE) Integration and Planning Study" commissioned under the grant indicate that a combined capacity of less than 30 percent from solar and wind power is possible and desirable in Pakistan, with multiple benefits, including cost savings through reduced fuel consumption, improved energy security, and reduced carbon intensity. The results of this study have already informed the targets of the government’s Alternative & Renewable Energy Policy 2020. An ESMAP grant is also supporting development of a roadmap for scaling-up of renewable energy in Khyber, Paktunkhwa.
The Pakistan power sector was hit hard by COVID-19, with electricity demand plunging for commercial users by 75 percent and for industrial users by 60 percent in March 2020, when revenues fell 61 percent below expectations. The crisis underscored the need to rapidly transition the energy sector, further motivating the government move forward with this cooperation.
Solar Irrigation in India
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Location: India
ESMAP’s support to scaling up solar often impacts cross-cutting sectoral issues, such as the energy-water-agriculture nexus in India. Following the dissemination in December 2019 of a key report on this topic prepared by the World Bank’s Water Global Practice and buttressed by the Energy and Agriculture Global Practices, ESMAP-funded technical assistance supported the preparation of a pilot for grid connected solar irrigation systems on two electricity feeders identified by Rajasthan. The project yielded a standard package of documents for solar irrigation systems, including farmer due diligence documents, financial analysis reports, standard procurement documents, and customized power purchase agreements between farmers and the utility.
The impact of this ESMAP funded activity will go beyond Rajasthan. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) intends to use these documents to inform its national scheme to provide support to Indian states in implementing solar irrigation systems. Addressing nexus issues requires a collaborative and well-coordinated team effort by the World Bank among its global practices to provide clients with innovative and contextually appropriate solutions.
Geothermal Direct Use and Gender
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Location: El Salvador
Under the Global Geothermal Development Plan (GGDP), ESMAP continued to support gender equality by working closely with regional specialists and following up on the suggestions identified in the report Gender Equality in the Geothermal Sector – Road to Sustainability published in April 2019. During FY20, ESMAP worked with the World Bank team preparing the geothermal project in El Salvador to address gender biases in corporate culture. This activity was based on a pilot implemented by WING (New Zealand) and is referred to as WINGmen Special Taskforce: Train the Trainee. A workshop was organized and held in December 2020 in El Salvador in partnership with the German Corporation for International Cooperation (GIZ), WING, and LaGEo. The workshop participants came from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, and Costa Rica.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
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Geothermal in Turkey
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Location: Turkey
To support Turkey’s shift towards renewable energy, ESMAP’s Global Geothermal Development Plan (GGDP) helped leverage a $350 million project to scale up private sector investment for geothermal development by reducing the risks taken on by investors during early-stage drilling. This has been done through a Risk Sharing Mechanism (RSM) and by providing access to long-term financing. Turkish citizens benefit from new economic and employment opportunities created, and the global community benefits from the lessons learned through the use of the risk-sharing facility in designing similar mechanisms to stimulate geothermal exploration in other markets.
GGDP activities supported 42 MW of geothermal power capacity coming online in Turkey in FY20, and an additional 12 MW in August 2020, for a total capacity of 253 MW across the country.
Designing Sustainable Financing Mechanisms
Energy Efficiency
Location: Kosovo
In the Western Balkans, ESMAP supported the identification of options for energy efficiency investments in the public sector, including the structuring of revolving financing mechanisms. As a result of these activities, the Government of Kosovo established the Kosovo Energy Efficiency Fund as an independent, autonomous, and sustainable entity. With funding and cooperation from the European Commission, the World Bank supported the capitalization and operationalization of the Fund, which identifies, finances, and implements municipal energy efficiency projects through energy service agreements (ESAs).
Energy service agreements allow the Fund to finance the energy efficiency investments in municipal buildings or facilities, such as building energy efficiency renovations or street lighting retrofits, and to recover the investment and the Fund’s operation costs through collecting payments from the municipalities based on the energy cost savings achieved by the investments. Generally, leveraging funds with partners (such as the European Union) and strengthening institutions proved to be a particularly effective approach. Building local capacity to implement projects introduces a more sustainable financing structure to efficiency programs and facilitates replication in other sectors, such as public buildings or the water sector.
Energy Efficiency in Uzbekistan’s Water Utilities
Energy Efficiency
Location: Uzbekistan
In Uzbekistan, a World Bank grant supported the design of an energy efficiency financing facility for cost-effective investments in the Suvokovas (water utilities). This work included the analysis of incentives and constraints of the credit facility for water utilities and participating financial institutions (PFIs); gaps in the legal and regulatory framework; and the definition of key on-lending terms, conditions, and rules for the credit facility between the Ministry of Finance and PFIs and between PFIs and the borrowing water utilities. These terms and conditions included the eligibility criteria for water utilities, credit line thresholds, currency of the loan and currency of repayment, a method to calculate the interest charged on the principal amount, among other things, as well as potential eligible investments.
Finally, it included the determination of capacity building and training requirements for the PFIs to support a successful implementation of the financing facility and an action plan to support the transition towards increasing commercial finance within the water supply and sanitation sector.
ESMAP also supported this wider project with energy efficiency audits and a pre-feasibility study for the Namangan water utility as a pilot demonstration project, and the preparation of a sector reform roadmap, including energy efficiency actions; policy advice for mid-term planning and tariff setting, which details specific provisions for incentivizing and capturing energy efficiency gains; and a series of training and capacity building activities for utility staff at the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services.
Closing Gaps in Women’s Employment in Ethiopia and Kenya
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Location: Ethiopia and Kenya
Through the Energy and Economic Growth (EEG) joint research program administered by ESMAP and DFID (now FCDO), a program dedicated to Closing Gaps in Women’s Employment in the Energy Sector, was established for South Asia and Africa, and is focused on establishing baseline data and stakeholder engagement and providing knowledge and advisory support to operational teams and clients.
In Ethiopia, supported by the World Bank Group, ESMAP Africa Gender and Energy Program and the State and Peacebuilding Fund Gender-Based Violence grant, the Ethiopia Electric Utility (EEU) allocated $4.5 million to closing gender gaps and citizen engagement. EEU’s approach started with developing a pipeline of future workers. It signed a unique partnership agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and 12 Ethiopian universities to provide courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Improved STEM instruction is essential to upskill the existing female staff footprint so that they match male employees in education attainments and can advance their careers the energy sector.
In Kenya, support was focused on designing a women’s scholarship component of the proposed Kenya Electricity Sector Improvement Project with Kenya Power and Lighting Co. Ltd. The program conducted interviews with key faculty and administration of the Institute for Energy Studies and Research (the utility’s training center), as well as focus groups with current female students. Key issues to be resolved were identified and recommendations were developed for the scholarships. A virtual briefing was conducted with the utility’s Manager of Learning and Development to review the findings and best practices for scholarship programs.
Energy Sector Reform in Uzbekistan
GOVERNANCE, MARKETS, & PLANNING
Location: Uzbekstan
The West Africa Regional Energy Trade Development Policy Financing Program seeks to remove barriers to electricity trade, which will lower electricity costs for consumers, support the competitiveness of firms, and improve resilience and reliability of supply.
Reform objectives of the government include: addressing inadequate financial and operational performance; modernizing infrastructure and improving energy service delivery; strengthening the institutional and market structure; commercialization of the energy utilities; and development of an enabling policy and regulatory framework in the energy sector. In August 2019, the government adopted the Electricity Sector Reform Implementation Plan (ESRIP), which is currently being executed by the ministries and sector utilities.
ESMAP’s PASA support has encouraged the development of renewable energy in Uzbekistan and provided support in sustainable financing to scale up demand-side energy efficiency. Finally, it has provided policy, advisory, analytical, technical, and coordination support, and capacity building to implement the comprehensive energy sector reforms that are now underway.
West African Power Pool
GOVERNANCE, MARKETS, & PLANNING
Location: West Africa
Over the past decade, member countries of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) have been working through the West Africa Power Pool (WAPP) towards a fully integrated power market. The West Africa Power Pool has done the fundamental work of interconnecting national grids, but policy coordination is necessary to realize the full strength of the regional power market. Coordinated policies paired with effective institutions and regulatory frameworks will help improve trust in the electricity trade and usher in a new era of affordable and reliable energy in West Africa.
The goal is to facilitate trade of cleaner, low-cost electricity generated from gas, hydropower, and renewable energy across borders, and to replace more expensive electricity generated from inefficient, small-scale oil-fired and diesel generation, and to improve the reliability of electricity services.
ESMAP’s analytical work on policy reform underpinned a Directive adopted by the Heads of State of ECOWAS to implement coordinated reform programs in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, and Sierra Leone. In July 2020, World Bank approved a total of $300 million in credits and grants to support reforms that will help promote electricity trade in West Africa.
In addition to the Clean Cooking Fund, in September 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank launched the Health and Energy Platform of Action (HEPA), which aims to help countries strengthen cypolicy and technical cooperation between the health and energy sectors. A priority action of HEPA, which is hosted by WHO, isto convene the High-Level Coalition of Leaders for Clean Cooking, Energy and Health. ESMAP also collaborated closely with the WHO on the SDG7 Tracking Energy Progress Report and an MTF for cooking and data collection methods.
Subsidy Reform
Energy Subsidy Reform Facility
Location: Global
Policies and regulatory changes recommended by the ESMAP Energy Subsidy Reform Facility in FY20 contributed to significant achievements in energy subsidy reforms globally:
Ethiopia | The government announced the implementation of a second electricity tariff increase under the multi-year electricity tariff increase framework.
Ecuador | The government appointed a commission to set up fuel prices and increase transparency in price setting, aiming to reduce fuel subsidies as a share of gross domestic product (GDP).
Angola | The government issued a decision to initiate electricity tariff revision, as part of the utilities pricing and subsidies reform.
Mali | The government increased medium voltage and public lighting tariffs to align them with the consumer price index; removed connection cost subsidies for medium voltage users.
Togo | To strengthen the financial viability of the power sector, the government issued an inter-ministerial arrêté authorizing the Regulation Authority to determine the periodic adjustment of the revenue requirement for the national utility (CEET) to reach financial equilibrium.
Tunisia | The government issued a circular to establish a mechanism for the payment of bill to state-owned enterprises in core public services to reduce receivables and cash-flow challenges and ensure quality services particularly during COVID-19 recovery.
Uzbekistan | The government adopted a tariff methodology consistent with principles of full cost-recovery for the provision of electricity.