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.
This slide deck provides a quick overview of the process for the development of energy projects by indigenous groups, including tips on choosing an optimal site, ownership structures and financing structures.
Derisking Renewable Energy Investment (DREI) introduces an innovative, quantitative framework to assist policymakers in developing countries to cost-effectively promote and scale-up private sector investment in renewable energy.
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 report discusses potential social and environmental risks associated with the roll-out of the GETFiT renewable energy investment programme in Zambia, as well as mitigation measures.
This paper provides general guidelines for conducting Environmental Impact Assessments for waste-to-energy projects.
This article describes the origins and provides examples of community-owned small hydropower projects in Guatemala.
This report provides background information and guidance on the types of behavioural changes needed to advance access to clean cooking, and ways to promote these changes.
This blog and inforgraphic present the results of a World Bank study on the decision-making journey towards adopting and using clean cooking solutions in Rwanda, Madagascar and Ghana.
This study investigated (1) What marketing messages are effective at increasing willingness to pay for a more efficient stove in rural Uganda; (2) What sales offers (e.g., free trial and time payments) increases willingness to pay and uptake; (3) What effects does ownership of an efficient stove have on the use of old and new […]