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South Asia’s Power Sector Relatively Unaffected by Global Financial Crisis, Says New Report
09 Nov 2010
by ESMAP - Category: Contributed News
The 2008 Global Financial Crisis had little impact on the flow of funds to South Asia’s power sector. All told, the sector still needs up to $150 billion in additional investments to meet its growing electricity demand by 2015 says a new report. The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Investments in the Electric [...]
REEEP and ESMAP highlight low-carbon successes
27 Oct 2010
Underlining the overall DIREC theme of how to upscale and mainstream renewable energy technologies, the official side event hosted by REEEP and ESMAP (the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program, a multi-donor program hosted by the World Bank), highlighted four successful renewable energy projects, drawn from a variety of settings. These included urban and rural, and [...]
ESMAP Develops Climate Adaptation Planning Tool for Energy Sector
08 Oct 2010
by ESMAP - Category: Contributed News
Many countries are vulnerable to weather events, be it extreme events or variations in average temperatures, precipitation levels or other parameters. The vulnerability is driven in part by exposure to these changes but also by countries’ sensitivity to events being exacerbated by past practices, socio-economic or legacy issues. The degree to which vulnerability to weather [...]
Geothermal Energy Could Help Diversify The Global Energy Mix Says ESMAP Expert
31 Aug 2010
by ESMAP - Category: Contributed News
The utilization of hot steam from geothermal resources to generate electricity has the potential to diversify the global energy mix and enhance all our efforts to address climate change and global warming, says Magnus Gehringer, Senior Energy Specialist at the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP). “Our dependence on fossil fuels has lasted too long [...]
In late August, the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program-ESMAP launched its new website, which provides access to information on ESMAP’s programs, activities, knowledge products and achievements. The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program is a global, multidonor technical assistance program aimed at promoting environmentally sustainable energy solutions for poverty reduction and economic growth. Their new Web [...]
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