energy investments and satisfying the energy demand of their fast-growing economies. These factors have prompted governments …Energy efficiency can improve fiscal balances, stimulate growth and competitiveness, strengthen energy security, and … reduce the energy burden of the poor. It also can enhance the quality of life by improving energy products and services …

assistance for the African power sector averaged no more than US$500 million per year. The private sector will be key to energy … the most appropriate. The current global credit crisis poses additional challenges to mobilizing financing for energy …

help countries adapt to the energy crisis related to managing both demand and supply. Section 4 presents a set of … countries to respond to the energy price shock and examines how this crisis could harness the clean energy transition to enhance … collective energy security. The options to support energy markets, vulnerable households, and firms will vary, depending on …

"This paper critically reviews existing energy demand forecasting methodologies highlighting the methodological … diversities and developments over the past four decades in order to investigate whether the existing energy demand models are … and end-use accounting, are used in the existing energy demand models. Although energy demand models have greatly evolved …