This book explains the current electricity subsidies to residential consumers in Mexico and the current distribution of subsidies across income classes. It also explains how alternative subsidy mechanisms could improve distributional and fiscal performance.
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Source: The World Bank
Date: February 2009
This web-based database provides detailed project output documents from Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) projects. The database contains output documents from specific types of energy access, energy efficiency, and renewable energy programmes.
Source: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP)
Date: March 2012
The main purpose of this handbook is to assist people who are working in or with local government to develop sustainable energy and climate action plans and implementation programs.
Source: United Nations
Date: January 2009
This paper argues for an "energy-poverty alleviation" fund to provide modern energy services to households without energy access. It also proposes an approach for creating such a fund, namely by introducing an incremental levy on petroleum.
Source: Energy Policy
Date: March 2004
This article reviews trends in the rural energy sector of Sub-Saharan Africa and discusses the limitations of over-reliance on solar photovoltaic (PV) technology.
Source: Energy Policy, Energy, Environment and Development Network for Africa (AFREPREN/FWD)
Date: January 2002
This study underscores how improved access to rural energy services can create multiple benefits for rural life, from income and labor productivity to education and women's health.
Source: World Bank
Date: March 2010
The main purpose of this study is to determine the market potential for photovoltaic (PV) systems in remote areas of China, especially in villages without access to grid electricity.
Source: World Bank
Date: December 2000
This calculator translates carbon dioxide emissions quantities into easy to understand terms, such as the "equivalent of the carbon dioxide emissions of 183,000 cars annually." It is designed to facilitate communication of greenhouse gas reduction targets, strategies, and successes of various in
Source: United States Environmental Protection Agency
Date: May 2011
Small, modular biomass gasifiers are an emerging technology for enhancing the economic productivity of small agricultural-based communities, especially when combined with the “multi-function platform” concept.
Source: World Bank
This case study highlights Chile's Rural Electrification Program (PER), which expanded rural electrification through private sector companies and existing cooperatives.
Source: World Bank
Date: April 2012