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The main priority for the Democratic Republic of Congo's power sector is to increase access to electricity. The … Democratic Republic of Congo is a large country with 10 million households of which 1.6 million have access to electricity. This … makes it the third largest population in the world without access to electricity. The report explores the current state of …
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China made impressive progress in developing renewable energy to provide access to clean energy and electricity to its …
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Access to energy and economic development go hand in hand. Improving electricity supply and distribution boosts … people in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) live without access to electricity: only 35 percent of the population in SSA has access …
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both increasing the delivery of electricity services to the population and developing domestic business opportunities both … directly linked to RE technology and linked to improved access to reasonably priced electricity. The objective of this paper is … to review the potential viability of RE as part of the country's electricity supply plan, and at the same time to …
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The report, a joint effort between the World Bank's Social Development Global Practice and International Finance Corporation (IFC) advisory services, is based on the idea that local engagement, for example, through benefit sharing, is an important way for better risk management and creating a...
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Thailand needs to avoid the high-carbon growth path of many developed countries and, instead, take a low-carbon growth path. A green low-carbon growth path is in Thailand's own interest as it can simultaneously tackle local environmental degradation, global climate change, and energy security...
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transform the energy sector as well. Latin America and the Caribbean has the cleanest and potentially cheapest electricity … generation matrix of all developing regions. But its electricity is the most expensive, due mainly to inefficiencies. Distributed … generation within countries and electricity trade across countries, could make energy greener and cheaper, provided that the …
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Tunisia's already modest economic recovery almosthalted in 2023, amidst a severe drought, tight financingconditions and the modest pace of implementingreforms. With this slowdown, the Tunisian economy in2023 was still below its pre-Covid level, marking oneof the slowest recoveries in the Middle...
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This document is intended for use by government agencies in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs), in order to assist them in incorporating climate-related risks and opportunities in the preliminary preparation stages of renewable energy (solar and wind) infrastructure projects...
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The Government of Pakistan (GOP) has adopted ambitious national renewable energy (RE) targets under the RE policy 2019. The policy sets out a growth trajectory for grid connected, non-hydro renewables, mandating at least 20 percent renewables in the country's installed power generation capacity...
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