Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid … extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor … households' willingness-to-pay for different types of electricity access, including lower cost off-grid technologies. The …

In Addis Ababa, an increasing block tariff has been used to calculate households' monthly bills for electricity and … water services. This study estimates the magnitudes of the combined water and electricity subsidies received by households … with private connections to the electricity grid and piped water network in 2016, and it evaluates the distribution of …

. This paper shows that daily electricity consumption and monthly nighttime light intensity can proxy for economic activity … remained a quarter below normal levels throughout April. It recovered somewhat subsequently, but electricity consumption was on … electricity consumption halved in some, others were not affected at all. Part of the heterogeneity is explained by the prevalence …

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 …

. Increasing electricity availability affects the reallocation of inputs to more productive activities through generating higher … these two dimensions, followed by services and agriculture. The expansion of electricity infrastructure explains about 17 …

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 …

of fuel subsidies, cross-border electricity trade, and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in line with commitments … under the Paris Agreement. The analysis uses a power system planning model that minimizes the total electricity supply cost … gas used for power generation. It would save USD 83.6 billion to USD 90.9 billion through cross-border electricity trade …