This Live Wire focuses on safety concerns associated with hydrogen and its main derivatives: ammonia and methanol. After an exhaustive review of the literature and measures on hydrogen safety, the study...
Différentes approches pour le développement de mini-réseaux solaires hybrides existent dans le monde, qu’elles soient menées par le secteur privé ou par l’État. Nous examinons ici cinq de ces approches...
Different private sector-led and government-led approaches to the development of solar hybrid mini grids are found around the world. Five approaches used in Africa are reviewed here. Each works better...
Synthetic fertilizers are essential to sustaining the world’s population, but their production is responsible for 1.8–2.4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Clean hydrogen holds growing potential...
Scaling up energy efficiency is critical to the energy transition—and the public sector is a good place to start. Programs in public buildings, in particular, can introduce new models and thus help shape...
This paper estimates the profitability of inorganic fertilizer use in maize production in Malawi. It employs a two-wave, nationally representative panel of data on smallholder households and plots to estimate...
Can mini grids help to solve the problem of poorly served main grid connected communities? A mini grid is an electricity generation and distribution network that supplies electricity to a localized group...
Can mini grids help to solve the problem of poorly served main grid connected communities? A mini grid is an electricity generation and distribution network that supplies electricity to a localized group...
This Live Wire assesses the extent of concessional financing needed to bring to zero the incremental costs of power sector decarbonization in select low- and middle income countries. Those costs are higher...
In the long term, both energy security and decarbonization in the region will depend on substantial increases in national climate ambitions. Achieving those increases will depend, in turn, on equally substantial...
Across the globe countries are looking to cut greenhouse gas emissions to reach carbon neutrality and combat climate change. But doing so can be complicated. Countries are putting a price on carbon emissions...
The extension of electricity into rural areas has been the main focus of efforts to achieve universal access to reliable, affordable, and modern energy by 2030. On the African continent and elsewhere...
Finding fuel sources to replace coal in power plants is crucial in the march toward decarbonization. Biomass and ammonia are two options offering significant potential.Both can be used with coal or alone...
Transport must be decarbonized if climate commitments are to be met. Colombia is a leader in the adoption of electric vehicles in Latin America. However, the growth of the electric vehicles (EV) market...
This Live Wire—based on Off the Books: Understanding and Mitigating the Fiscal Risks of Infrastructure (2023)—presents a systematic assessment of the magnitude and prevalence of fiscal risks from power...
Cooking programs in camps and other settings for the world’s 100 million displaced people have typically provided substandard stoves and fuelwood rather than clean, modern fuels. But clean cooking solutions...
Proper management of geothermal data is essential to the long-term development of geothermal resources at economically attractive costs. Even after a particular geothermal resource has come on stream...
Women bear the greatest burden from energy poverty, and forced displacement further entrenches gender inequalities. This Live Wire aims to advance our understanding of how energy access can help bridge...
Climate change and its impacts on power systems often mean more frequent power outages and repairs, which raise maintenance costs and pose other challenges. Yet proactive modifications in project design...
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...