ESMAP's support to the Power to the Poor program helped provide interest-free loans to female-headed households, enabling 83,000 of them to get an electricity connection.
ESMAP’s work in off-grid electrification in Kenya gets off the ground with a new $150 million World Bank investment project to provide electricity to 1.3 million people through mini grids, individual solar systems and cookstoves.
A new ESMAP-supported brief describes big data analytics techniques to facilitate their use in the energy sector and promotes a new open platform for energy data.
ESMAP helped men and women in Vietnamese communities living around the Trung Son Hydropower project to gain equal access to benefits such as resettlement compensation and training. Women have also strengthened their participation in…
The first of its kind, the Electrification Pathways application builds on a state-of-the-art geospatial modelling algorithm to provide countries with a ‘first pass’ rapid planning tool informing universal electricity access strategies.
Millions of people around the world live with limited access to water. Solar Water Pumping, or photovoltaic water pumping (PVP), provides an viable solution. Even though solar water pumping is ready for mainstreaming and has started to…
