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 report highlights the importance of sector coupling as a key source of flexibility that cities can explore to stabilise power grid operations when integrating high shares of variable renewable energy sources. It presents a range of sector coupling opportunities available for use in cities, including self-consumption of variable RE sources, the role of thermal […]
This report investigates different models for the deployment of e-bike fleets and charging/swapping infrastructures in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the potential advantages of battery swapping for riders, highlights emerging best practice for Batteries as a Service, and provides recommendations on policy, regulation and financing to support uptake of e-motorcycles and the growth of BaaS in […]
A course on energy subsidies, their costs, and the design of a successful reform based on country case studies.
This chapter provides an overview of energy tax and subsidy patterns in the 71 countries covered in the report and estimates the net effect of energy taxes and subsidies on public finances.
This edition of the Investment Policy Monitor assesses the global landscape of fossil fuel subsidies and promotion of investment in the energy transition.
This paper investigates the role of carbon taxes in the energy transition, with case studies from Chile, Ghana, Indonesia and Jamaica.
This report highlights the economic, social and environmental benefits that energy and transport sector-coupling and a transition towards EV- and RE-based, efficient systems can create in small island settings, and provides tools for the planning of such a transition.
This guide provides insights on planning and implementing RBF projects to advance energy access that consider various LNOB aspects, including gender.