The track record of Sub-Saharan Africa’s power sector is dismal. Two out of three households in Sub-Saharan Africa, close to 600 million people, have no electricity connection. The need for large investments...
On June 29, 2006, the World Bank’s Board of Directors approved today a 25 million dollars grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for Mexico, in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by removing...
By demonstrating the viability of private finance for a major infrastructure project in a developing country, the Hub Power Project has set an important precedent, particularly in the energy sector. It...
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the England and Wales power supply industry underwent the most radical transformation ever experienced by such an industry, swiftly evolving from a state-owned, state-controlled...
The presentations and discussions during the roundtable focused on the present market conditions for Independent Power Projects (IPPs) to help meet the demand for electricity in emerging markets. During...
Developing countries have become increasingly interested in attracting private entities to bid on construction and operation of hydro-based independent power projects (IPPs). The output from such power...
Project financing of independent power producers (IPPs) may seem the only solution to the intractable problem of getting private credit to the power sector. In the developing world, however, the public-private...