Documents et rapports
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Household Energy for Cooking : Project design principles (anglais)
Reliance on solid fuels for cooking is an indicator of energy poverty. Access to modern energy services - including electricity and clean fuels - is important for achieving the Millennium Development Goals...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 90274 Date du document: 1 juillet 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Carbon capture and storage in developing countries : a perspective on barriers to deployment (anglais)
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) could have significant impact as a carbon mitigation technology in greenhouse gas- (GHG-) emitting industries. Given the nascence of CCS technology, with only eight large-scale...
Type de document: Étude sur l’énergie Numéro du rapport: 64543 Date du document: 1 juin 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kulichenko,Nataliya,Ereira,Eleanor Charlotte
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Transmission expansion for renewable energy scale-up emerging lessons and recommendations (anglais)
The report is structured in two parts. Part one focuses on describing why providing transmission services for renewable energy represents a new challenge, as well as reviewing some of the approaches different...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 69199 Date du document: 1 juin 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Madrigal,Marcelino,Stoft,Steven E.
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Regulatory and financial incentives for scaling up concentrating solar power in developing countries (anglais)
Concentrating solar thermal (CST) technologies have a clear potential for scaling up renewable energy at the utility level, thereby diversifying the generation portfolio mix, powering development, and...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 63670 Date du document: 1 juin 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kulichenko,Nataliya,Wirth,Jens
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Design and performance of policy instruments to promote the development of renewable energy : emerging experience in selected developing countries (anglais)
In the early 1990s, developing countries started to introduce different incentives to promote renewable energy investments, especially feed-in tariff policies. Today, more than 30 developing countries...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 63214 Date du document: 1 avril 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Elizondo Azuela,Gabriela,Barroso,Luiz Augusto Nobrega
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Impacts of transmission and distribution projects on greenhouse gas emissions (anglais)
The Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change (SFDCC) approved in 2008 guides and supports the operational response of the World Bank Group (WBG) to new development challenges posed by climate...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 63215 Date du document: 1 novembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Madrigal,Marcelino,Spalding-Fecher,Dennis Randall
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Reforming power markets in developing countries : what have we learned? (anglais)
This paper broadly follows the structure of the World Bank's Operational Guidance Note (OGN) for Public and Private Roles in the Supply of Electricity Services. Following the overview in chapter 1, the...
Type de document: Étude sur l’énergie Numéro du rapport: 38017 Date du document: 1 septembre 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Besant-Jones,John E.
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Electrification and regulation : principles and a model law (anglais)
The paper presents one of the first systematic attempts at defining workable regulatory systems that will help rather than hinder electrification with emphasis on off-grid electrification. It does this...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 38328 Date du document: 1 juillet 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Reiche,Kilian A.,Tenenbaum,Bernard W.,Torres de Mästle, Clemencia
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Energy policies and multi-topic household surveys : guidelines for questionnaire design in living standards measurement studies (anglais)
This report begins by examining the characteristics and relative merits of living standards measurement studies (LSMS) and specialized household energy surveys. It then reviews the types of questions currently...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 37479 Date du document: 1 avril 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Barnes,Douglas French,O'Sullivan,Kyran
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World Bank framework for development of a power market in South East Europe (anglais)
This Bank framework is motivated by the Athens memorandum and the Treaty whereby countries in South East Europe have agreed to form a regional power market in South East Europe. It outlines challenges...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 37477 Date du document: 1 mars 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kennedy, David
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Centralized purchasing arrangements : international practices and lessons learned on variations to the single buyer model (anglais)
By examining the broad range of variations in design and implementation of energy trading models around the world, our evaluation showed that sometimes the pure Single Buyer is actually the only alternative...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 37478 Date du document: 1 mars 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Arizu De Jablonski,Beatriz,Gencer,Defne,Maurer,Luiz T. A.
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Lessons from the independent private power experience in Pakistan (anglais)
The discussion paper recounts the background to the Independent Private Power (IPP) program, describes the "orderly framework" developed by the Bank Group for the IPP workout, and concludes with several...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 33770 Date du document: 1 mai 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Fraser,Julia M.
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World Bank framework for development of regional energy trade in South East Europe (anglais)
This Bank framework is motivated by the Athens Memorandum establishing a South East Europe Regional Energy Market (SEEREM). The aim is to outline challenges for successful SEEREM implementation, and to...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 30519 Date du document: 1 mars 2004 Auteur: Besant-Jones,John E.,Kennedy, David
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Some options for improving the governance of state-owned electricity utilities (anglais)
Most government-owned utilities in developing countries perform poorly when judged as providers of electricity, in part because politicians and officials use their power, not to encourage the utilities...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 30518 Date du document: 1 février 2004 Auteur: Irwin,Timothy C.,Yamamoto,Chiaki
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Pass through of power purchase costs : Regulatory challenges and international practices (anglais)
An important, but often ignored, regulatory issue in developing and developed countries is the pass through of power purchase costs for distribution companies. It is important because power purchase costs...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 28082 Date du document: 1 février 2004 Auteur: Arizu De Jablonski,Beatriz,Tenenbaum,Bernard W.,Maurer,Luiz T. A.
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Foreign exchange risk mitigation for power and water projects in developing countries (anglais)
The objective of this paper is to explain how foreign exchange risk affects power and water infrastructure projects, to analyze the effectiveness of mechanisms that have been used to mitigate foreign exchange...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 28094 Date du document: 1 décembre 2003 Auteur: Matsukawa, Romoko,Sheppard,James Robert,Wright,Joseph Daniel
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What international investors look for when investing in developing countries : Results from a survey of international investors in the power sector (anglais)
The survey results show that despite the decline in private investment in developing countries, international investors remain guardedly interested in these markets and would prefer to see adequate cash...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 28091 Date du document: 1 mai 2003 Auteur: Saeed,Kazim M.,Lamech,Ranjit J.
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Regulation by contract : A new way to privatize electricity distribution? (anglais)
In many developing countries, both governments and investors have expressed disappointment with the performance of recently privatized electricity distribution companies. Governments complain that tariffs...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 28092 Date du document: 1 mai 2003 Auteur: Tenenbaum,Bernard W.,Woolf,Fiona,Bakovic,Tonci R.
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Mitigating regulatory risk for distribution privatization : The World Bank partial risk guarantee (anglais)
This paper outlines how a World Bank Partial Risk Guarantee (PRG) may be used to promote private sector investment in electricity distribution utilities. The paper explains how a PRG could backstop a government...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 28090 Date du document: 1 novembre 2002 Auteur: Mazhar,Farida,Wright,Joseph Daniel,Gupta,Pankaj,Lamech,Ranjit J.
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Economic development, climate change, and energy security : The World Bank's strategic perspective (anglais)
This paper describes the World Bank Group's strategic perspective on three particularly important challenges related to the supply and use of energy in the new century: economic growth and poverty reduction;...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 28086 Date du document: 1 septembre 2002 Auteur: Feinstein,Charles M.