State of Electricity Access Report 2017
The State of Electricity Access Report, 2017, aims to prompt governments, donors, the private sector, civil society organizations, and practitioners to develop interventions to close the electricity access gap by integrating lessons learned with in...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/364571494517675149/full-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26646 |
| Summary: | The State of Electricity Access Report,
2017, aims to prompt governments, donors, the private
sector, civil society organizations, and practitioners to
develop interventions to close the electricity access gap by
integrating lessons learned with insights drawn from
emerging innovative business and delivery models. The Report
is organized around five main questions: Why is electricity
access critical for achieving the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development? What is the status of electricity
access? What are the challenges and drivers of
transformative electricity access? Why is it important to
explore synergies between access, renewables, and energy
efficiency? What are the emerging and innovative business
and delivery models? The key findings are that urgent
measures are needed to speed up access to modern energy
services or there will still be several countries in 2030,
mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a significant percentage
of the population going without electricity. Both grid and
off-grid approaches will be critical, but they will have to
be supported by a conducive enabling environment of the
right institutions, policies, strategic planning,
regulations, and incentives. The good news is that lower
costs for renewable energy technologies, adequate energy
efficiency measures, and innovation should make it possible
for countries to be creative in meeting this challenge.
There is also a growing role for the private sector to
finance interventions, assuming the incentives are in place
for investors to earn returns on their investments. |
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