The Bangladesh Solar Home Systems (SHS) Program contributed significantly to achieving near-universal access to electricity by installing over 4 million SHSs from 2003 to 2018, serving 16 percent of rural...
The Bangladesh Solar Home Systems (SHS) Program is the largest national program in the world for off-grid electrification. Begun in 2003, SHS installations under the Program ended in 2018. It is the longest...
This note is organized into three sections: (a) a context and background section, summarizing the rationale for off-grid electrification and its complementarity with grid-extension investment; (b) a discussion...
Il faut de toute urgence répondre aux besoins en énergie des pays en développement d’une manière durable sur le plan de l’environnement. Le recours à l’énergie propre appuie la croissance durable et la...
Five Asian nations, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam began designing or instituting Small Power Producer (SPP) programs in the mid-1990s to support energy development jointly with the...
There is now a strong foundation of good practice emerging from past and ongoing renewable energy (RE) projects, whether supported by the WBG or others, making it possible to develop and implement future...
The Renewable Energy Action Plan (REAP) was prepared in a participatory workshop with stakeholders, to discuss renewable energy potential, problems, and solutions, and synthesize study results into a draft...
Twelve World Bank Group projects provide basic "energy services" such as lighting, radio, television, and operation of small appliances to rural households without access to electricity grids through the...
This paper is one of a series of background papers to the Energy Sector Strategy currently being prepared by the Energy, Mining and Telecommunications Sector Board. The purpose of the paper is to show...
This report identifies an important economic niche for photovoltaic (PV) systems within rural electrification programs. Chapter 1 sketches the evolution of household photovoltaic systems. Chapter 2 describes...