This study is designed to analyze the energy efficiency policies in seven countries that were successful in achieving low energy intensities or in reducing their energy intensity considerably. The study...
Tajikistan's electricity system is in a state of crisis. Approximately 70 percent of the Tajik people suffer from extensive shortages of electricity during the winter. These shortages, estimated at about...
Reliable power supply is critical for Tajikistan's economy and poverty reduction goals. Without reliable, affordable electricity throughout the year, Tajikistan's businesses cannot invest, operate and...
Reliable power supply is critical for Tajikistan's economy and poverty reduction goals. Without reliable, affordable electricity throughout the year, Tajikistan's businesses cannot invest, operate and...
This study poses the question of how Poland, an European Union (EU) member state, an industrialized Annex 1 country for the purposes of international climate discussions, and an Organization for Economic...
Comprehensive reforms are acutely needed to bring about the financial stabilization of the energy sector in Chişinău. Termocom, the district heating company, has accumulated an unsustainable debt, equivalent...
Comprehensive reforms are acutely needed to bring about the financial stabilization of the energy sector in Chişinău. Termocom, the district heating company, has accumulated an unsustainable debt, equivalent...
Before the current economic crisis hit the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region in 2008, energy security was a major source of concern in Central and Eastern Europe and in many of the economies in the...
The present paper is a follow-up document to the operational guidance note, public and private sector roles in the supply of electricity services (World Bank 2004). It focuses on the investment challenges...
This paper provides guidance to Bank Staff on assessing the suitability of available options for public and private roles in the financing and provision of electricity, and the main steps which staff should...
This report builds on the consensus developed at the August 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development. It draws on the effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. And it...
Russian power reform. Petroleum forecast.