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 … Continue reading “Public Financial Support for Renewable Power Generation and Integration in the G20 Countries”
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 webpage provides an introduction to smart grids, an overview of recent progress and recommendations for governments and utilities.
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 … Continue reading “Sector Coupling in Facilitating Integration of Variable Renewable Energy in Cities”
Institutions all over the world are setting up microcredentials in responses to calls from governments and industry: short courses, usually offered online by accredited institutions, with an emphasis on the needs of the workplace. They are also often used for retraining and upskilling. This book explains how to start offering microcredentials as an academic institution.
This guide aims to accelerate the flexibility and responsiveness of learning systems by providing guidance on the design, issue and recognition of micro-credentials.
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.