This report discusses how distributed energy resources can improve energy systems, and how energy systems must change to accommodate them.
This webpage provides an introduction to smart grids, an overview of recent progress and recommendations for governments and utilities.
This report by the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) shares opportunities, challenges and good practices related to advancing gender equality in electricity infrastructure projects.
This very recent IEA report explains the need to invest more in grid infrastructure. Read the Executive Summary on pages 7-10 for a brief overview of challenges related to quickly rising demand for transformers and cables, which have led to increased waiting times and higher prices.
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 […]
Climate mitigation finance strategy to promote higher-efficiency distribution transformers in Zambia
This report investigates efforts to enhance investment in efficient distribution transformers in Zambia, and provides recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of these efforts
This memo summarises the methodology and results of a study of the climate vulnerabilities of Latin American energy systems, and highlights some adaptation measures.
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 article explores how the energy system of a region of Denmark will have to develop to accommodate high shares of distributed renewable energy generation.
This report takes stock of the status of electricity grids around the world and examines the upgrades required to physical infrastructure and grid planning to facilitate the energy transition.