The State of Electricity Access Report, 2017, aims to prompt governments, donors, the private sector, civil society … organizations, and practitioners to develop interventions to close the electricity access gap by integrating lessons learned with … is electricity access critical for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development? What is the status of …

Access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest in the world, although a larger proportion of the population … data to examine the determinants of, and barriers to, electricity uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa. It supplements the analysis … with qualitative fieldwork in three countries. Regarding the areas under the electricity grid, the paper follows Wodon and …

Power, about 83.4 percent of communities with more than 500 people have access to grid electricity. The main remaining … frontier is to bring electricity to communities living on islands in Lake Volta and in isolated lakeside locations. The summary …

Sudan's electricity sector is operating efficiently from the technical stand point, compared to regional standards … the poor due to their limited access to electricity. Most electricity access is provided for urban and relatively rich … segments of the population. Electricity access in Kordofan and Darfur regions is particularly limited. The sector has been …

system to more villages and towns. The World Bank funded Electricity Access Rural Expansion Project (Phase 2) was implemented … since 2007 to assist the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) to develop a sustainable program for expanding access to electricity … electricity more affordable for rural populations. The national utility agreed to allow customers to pay for the connection charge …

residential electricity consumption. This amount is comparable with what these countries spend on education and social assistance …. The pressure that electricity subsidies exert on government budgets is particularly high when international energy prices … rise. Electricity subsidies also provide perverse incentives for the overconsumption of electricity as households do not …

This study assesses the accuracy of time-series econometric methods in forecasting electricity demand in developing … simple heuristic models, which assume that electricity demand grows at an exogenous rate or is proportional to real gross …

This paper presents an analysis of the economic impact of electricity price increases in Bangladesh. A computable … general equilibrium (CGE) model is developed and used to trace through the impact of an increase in the price of electricity … electricity to reduce the significant fiscal burden of current budget transfers to the single buyer of wholesale power - de facto …