The Renewable Energy Project Resource Center is designed to help WBG teams, clients and practitioners design, finance and implement renewable energy projects around the world.
Renewable energy is making rapid inroads in World Bank Group client countries, with developing countries accounting for $112 billion in renewable energy investment in 2012, or 46 percent of the global total. The Bank Group’s own operations in this area have grown rapidly, totaling $11.6 billion in financing from 2008-2013, representing the largest category in the WBG’s overall energy portfolio during that period.
Yet even with this growth in activity, client governments, private investors and World Bank teams still lack easy access to practical information resources to support the design and implementation of renewable energy projects.
To fill this gap, the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) has developed the Renewable Energy Project Resource Center in partnership with Energypedia, an independent non-profit energy information provider originally set up by GIZ.
The RE Project Resource Center brings together working level project documents such as:
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sample terms of reference (TOR)
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sample legal documents
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sample surveys and questionnaires
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examples of economic and financial analysis
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project case studies
Having such documents readily available can reduce transaction costs such as those associated with having to create new TOR or contract templates from scratch.
The RE Project Resource Center is hosted on Energypedia’s open wiki-based platform, allowing registered users to add new resources, comment and contribute to the shared body of knowledge. Documents are tagged to specific technologies (e.g. hydroelectricity, wind, geothermal, storage, etc.), connection types (e.g. grid connected, off-grid, small island systems, etc.), language, and region/country.
Now we need your help. Please register to use the site, review the resources, and most importantly for Bank Group staff, send us resources on renewable energy that you believe will be useful to your peers and clients. WBG documents can be sent directly to Almudena Mateos Merino or Barbara Ungari.
All WBG documents added to the Project Resource Center are first reviewed to ensure they are in line with the Bank’s Access to Information and Information Classification Control policies.
Going forward, information will be updated and added, building on the growing experience of the WBG as well as its partners and other development agencies. Current partners include the Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure Resource Center (PPPIRC), GIZ, the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP), and Open EI.org.
The Renewable Energy Project Resource Center can be accessed at:
https://energypedia.info/wiki/Renewable_Energy_Project_Resource_Center
For more information, please contact Almudena Mateos Merino.