Government spending and other forms of actual support to renewable energy is a blind spot at the international level. To help address the knowledge gap, IISD developed an inventory of public financial support for renewable energy generation and integration by G20 governments. It shows that G20 governments provided over $168 billion in public financial support […]
Despite strong calls for energy subsidy reforms, governments around the world still spend billions subsidising fossil fuel consumption each year. This report investigates how reforms can be designed that work in practice, drawing on over a decade of World Bank experience supporting these processes.
This is an example of an energy transition roadmap for Uganda. It explores different renewable energy scenarios and identifies the actions, investments and policies that are required to make these reality.
This publication aims to provide policymakers with a comprehensive understanding of the diverse policy options to support the development of renewables across sectors, technologies, country contexts, energy market structures, and policy objectives.
This report explores how the energy policy landscape has evolved in 2023-2024, looking at 50 types of policies across more than 60 countries to identify trends.
This report explores the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in Latin America’s energy transition. It provides insights on the ways in which the outlook for the region and the biggest global energy trends are deeply intertwined – as well as recommendations on policies that could allow Latin America and the Caribbean to take full […]
This report aims to assess: the scale of the need for reskilling and upskilling to realize the employment potential of the transition to environmental sustainability (the “green transition”); changes in occupations, skills gaps and skills shortages in meeting the skills demand of the green transition; progress made since 2011 in the countries surveyed then in […]
This website contains a range of learning resources on Integrated Resource Planning (a methodology for least-cost planning by public utilities), including load forecasting, tariff policies, amd demand side management. It also includes exercises and case studies.
This report explores ways to identify and mitigate energy transition investment risks in the low- and middle-income countries, pointing out 1) that better energy planning can attract greater investment in renewable energy, 2) that sustainable fuels will play an important role in delivering the energy transition, and 3) that the social dimensions of the transition […]
This report identifies and analyses key risks and barriers to private-sector investment in interconnected mini-grids in Nigeria, and evaluates policy and financial instruments designed to address them.