While electric-powered groundwater irrigation is quite prevalent in the world, a specific confluence of historical, policy and political factors has trapped many Indian states in a vicious spiral of declining groundwater levels, stagnant…
This Note analyzes the principal challenges in the power sector of the Kyrgyz Republic, including reliability and service quality, the financial health of power companies, ageing infrastructure, and demand gaps. It proposes a comprehensive…
This guidance note provides an introduction to the objectives, scope, and outputs, as well as the basic steps and approaches of conducting the three types of energy efficiency assessments. It may be used as a general reference for choosing…
This report is the product of a World Bank executed technical assistance to the Government of Nepal under the overall leadership of the Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC), under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (…
This report highlights some of the most important challenges for small-scale hydropower development in Vietnam, based on case studies of six river basins in northern Vietnam. This study is the result of collaboration between the World Bank…
In 2009, the World Bank established the Africa Renewable Energy and Access program (AFREA) to focus on the special needs of the energy sector in Africa, where limited access to modern energy constrains development and the opportunity…
