Kenya Power has expanded electricity in slum areas from 5,000 households to over 150,000 in just one year, through a community-based approach supported by the World Bank and ESMAP.
After years of struggle, Kenya's national utility has found a way to bring electricity to the country's poorest neighborhoods. Using a community-based approach, Kenya Power has gone from 5,000 households connected under its informal…
Often as part of a broader market oriented reform program, governments have resorted to PSP in transmission and distribution (T&D) for a variety of reasons, including to (i) offset years of under investment and poor operating…
A delegation of senior Indian power sector officials recently visited Brazil on a joint ASTAE/ESMAP-supported study tour to learn from the Brazilian experience of scaling up renewable energy in the power system.
A large share of the electricity and transportation in small island states continues to be fueled by imported petroleum products while energy infrastructure tends to be small and isolated. Representatives from 13 of these small island…