This guidance note outlines the advantages and risks of pumped storage hydropower projects, and provides advice for how projects can be structured and funded.
Wind farms tend to be large projects built in relatively remote areas, and in the past, they have often generated more disturbance than benefits for local communities. This World Bank report discusses models that allow host communities of wind energy projects to benefit more from those projects.
This report presents the lessons learned from a series of small hydropower projects in Guatemala, implemented by the Fundación Solar.
This article describes the origins and provides examples of community-owned small hydropower projects in Guatemala.