Africa is set to become the world’s largest market for clean off-grid lamps, with up to 140 million people having access to better lighting by 2015. This is one of the main findings of a new market research report released by the ESMAP-…
Water is critical for producing power, and vice versa. Almost all energy generation processes require significant amounts of water, and the treatment and transport of water requires energy, mainly in the form of electricity. Even though…
Over the past two years, ESMAP has supported the development of a Sourcebook on Strategic Development of Industrial Energy Efficiency for Uzbekistan. That study informed the creation in mid-July of a US$100 million facility for…
As part of the SIDS DOCK Support Program, ESMAP has supported a new series of awards for innovators and entrepreneurs from small island states who have helped their countries boost energy…
A new global ESMAP program aims to fill a gap that has held back renewable energy expansion in developing countries: a lack of detailed geographic data on sites with the greatest potential to generate power from solar, wind, biomass and…
