World Bank Group Support to Electricity Access, FY2000-2014 : An Independent Evaluation
The World Bank Group has committed to achieving universal access to electricity by 2030 under the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative. This is a daunting challenge: more than 1 billion people do not have access, and another 1 billion hav...
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TAX INCENTIVES KEROSENE LAMPS ELECTRIC SERVICES EMPLOYMENT POWER GRID SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUTURE POWER PLANTS RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESIDENTIAL CONSUMERS KILOWATT-HOUR AIR QUALITY SOLAR HOME SYSTEMS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ELECTRICITY TARIFF ACTIVITIES ACCESS TO MODERN ENERGY ENERGY EXPENDITURE RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT GENERATION RETAIL ELECTRICITY SURPLUS POWER WIND ELECTRICITY SYSTEM WIND FARMS EMISSIONS RURAL ENERGY DEVELOPMENT THERMAL POWER PLANTS BIOGAS BATTERIES POWER PROJECT POWER SHORTAGES ENERGY GENERATION GAS GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS PRICE EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS VOLTAGE POWER SYSTEM GREENHOUSE GAS ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION SOLAR ELECTRIFICATION BIOMASS GENERATION CAPACITY RURAL ELECTRIC ELECTRICITY UTILITIES ENERGY POLICIES GRID EXTENSION OIL AIR POLLUTION POWER GENERATION ENERGY MIX ENERGY SOURCES SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOLAR PANELS POWER SECTOR ELECTRIC SUPPLY RENEWABLE SOURCE GAS DEVELOPMENT SOLAR HOME SYSTEM ELECTRIFICATION RURAL ENERGY OPTIONS WATER ENERGY RESOURCES IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES ELECTRICITY SUPPLY POLLUTION GRID CONNECTION POWER COMPANY GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT THERMAL POWER POWER DISTRIBUTION ACCESS TO ENERGY SERVICES GRID EXPANSION POWER PRODUCERS GREENHOUSE GASES POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENTS POST-CONFLICT RENEWABLE GENERATION ENERGY CONSUMPTION FUEL SUPPLY GRID ELECTRICITY SERVICE ACCESS TO ENERGY KEROSENE CONSUMPTION POWER DEMAND GRID CONNECTIONS HEAT RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES CLIMATE CHANGE BALANCE ELECTRIC POWER POWER CORPORATION ELECTRICITY DEMAND ALTERNATIVE ENERGY HYDRO POWER UTILITIES ENERGY NEEDS SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY POWER ELECTRICITY GRID ELECTRIFICATION ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PROGRAM ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS SMALL POWER PRODUCERS HYDROPOWER ELECTRICITY GENERATION CONNECTED HOUSEHOLDS FOSSIL FUEL CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION HEAVY FUEL OIL ELECTRIC POWER DEMAND ELECTRICITY TARIFFS RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION GLOBAL EMISSIONS ENERGY USE RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES CONVENTIONAL GENERATION GRID RENEWABLE ENERGY TURBINES PILOT PROJECTS ELECTRICITY USAGE WIND FARM ENERGY EFFICIENCY ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY GENERATION CAPACITY POWER PRODUCER NATURAL GAS HOUSEHOLD ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION LINE INVESTMENT SOLAR LANTERNS ENERGY DEVELOPMENT POWER CAPACITY TARIFF SOLAR CELLS ENERGY MANAGEMENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK FUEL FUEL OIL AVAILABILITY FACILITIES RURAL ELECTRIFICATION INVESTMENTS RENEWABLE SOURCES FINANCIAL COVENANTS WIND TURBINES RENEWABLE ENERGY ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION GASES HEAT SUPPLY DIESEL KEROSENE PIPELINE FOSSIL PRICES APPROACH GRID ELECTRICITY GAS DISTRIBUTION UTILITY CHARGES ENERGY ELECTRICITY UTILITY |
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TAX INCENTIVES KEROSENE LAMPS ELECTRIC SERVICES EMPLOYMENT POWER GRID SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUTURE POWER PLANTS RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESIDENTIAL CONSUMERS KILOWATT-HOUR AIR QUALITY SOLAR HOME SYSTEMS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ELECTRICITY TARIFF ACTIVITIES ACCESS TO MODERN ENERGY ENERGY EXPENDITURE RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT GENERATION RETAIL ELECTRICITY SURPLUS POWER WIND ELECTRICITY SYSTEM WIND FARMS EMISSIONS RURAL ENERGY DEVELOPMENT THERMAL POWER PLANTS BIOGAS BATTERIES POWER PROJECT POWER SHORTAGES ENERGY GENERATION GAS GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS PRICE EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS VOLTAGE POWER SYSTEM GREENHOUSE GAS ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION SOLAR ELECTRIFICATION BIOMASS GENERATION CAPACITY RURAL ELECTRIC ELECTRICITY UTILITIES ENERGY POLICIES GRID EXTENSION OIL AIR POLLUTION POWER GENERATION ENERGY MIX ENERGY SOURCES SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOLAR PANELS POWER SECTOR ELECTRIC SUPPLY RENEWABLE SOURCE GAS DEVELOPMENT SOLAR HOME SYSTEM ELECTRIFICATION RURAL ENERGY OPTIONS WATER ENERGY RESOURCES IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES ELECTRICITY SUPPLY POLLUTION GRID CONNECTION POWER COMPANY GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT THERMAL POWER POWER DISTRIBUTION ACCESS TO ENERGY SERVICES GRID EXPANSION POWER PRODUCERS GREENHOUSE GASES POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENTS POST-CONFLICT RENEWABLE GENERATION ENERGY CONSUMPTION FUEL SUPPLY GRID ELECTRICITY SERVICE ACCESS TO ENERGY KEROSENE CONSUMPTION POWER DEMAND GRID CONNECTIONS HEAT RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES CLIMATE CHANGE BALANCE ELECTRIC POWER POWER CORPORATION ELECTRICITY DEMAND ALTERNATIVE ENERGY HYDRO POWER UTILITIES ENERGY NEEDS SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY POWER ELECTRICITY GRID ELECTRIFICATION ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PROGRAM ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS SMALL POWER PRODUCERS HYDROPOWER ELECTRICITY GENERATION CONNECTED HOUSEHOLDS FOSSIL FUEL CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION HEAVY FUEL OIL ELECTRIC POWER DEMAND ELECTRICITY TARIFFS RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION GLOBAL EMISSIONS ENERGY USE RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES CONVENTIONAL GENERATION GRID RENEWABLE ENERGY TURBINES PILOT PROJECTS ELECTRICITY USAGE WIND FARM ENERGY EFFICIENCY ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY GENERATION CAPACITY POWER PRODUCER NATURAL GAS HOUSEHOLD ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION LINE INVESTMENT SOLAR LANTERNS ENERGY DEVELOPMENT POWER CAPACITY TARIFF SOLAR CELLS ENERGY MANAGEMENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK FUEL FUEL OIL AVAILABILITY FACILITIES RURAL ELECTRIFICATION INVESTMENTS RENEWABLE SOURCES FINANCIAL COVENANTS WIND TURBINES RENEWABLE ENERGY ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION GASES HEAT SUPPLY DIESEL KEROSENE PIPELINE FOSSIL PRICES APPROACH GRID ELECTRICITY GAS DISTRIBUTION UTILITY CHARGES ENERGY ELECTRICITY UTILITY Independent Evaluation Group World Bank Group Support to Electricity Access, FY2000-2014 : An Independent Evaluation |
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The World Bank Group has committed to
achieving universal access to electricity by 2030 under the
Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative. This is a
daunting challenge: more than 1 billion people do not have
access, and another 1 billion have chronically inadequate or
unreliable service. Most of those without access are poor,
and the largest share is in Sub-Saharan Africa. Achieving
universal access within 15 years for the low-access
countries (those with under 50 percent coverage) requires a
quantum leap from their present pace of 1.6 million
connections per year to 14.6 million per year until 2030.
The investment needed would be about $37 billion per year,
including erasing generation deficits and meeting demand
from economic growth. By comparison, in recent years,
low-access countries received an average of $3.6 billion per
year for their electricity sectors from public and private
sources, including $1.5 billion per year from the World Bank
Group. Development outcomes of the Bank Group’s assistance
were generally favorable compared with other infrastructure
sectors. However, performance in improving financial
viability of country electricity sectors was below
expectations. There were significant gaps in the Bank
Group’s coverage of low-access countries, mostly in
Sub-Saharan Africa. Median implementation time of World Bank
investment projects was nine years, with time overruns
attributable to inadequate project design and borrower
capacity. Support for off-grid electrification was low and
sporadic, with a few notable exceptions. The Bank Group’s
growing non-conventional renewable energy portfolio is
dealing with technology and regulatory challenges. Tracking
welfare and gender impacts in World Bank projects has
improved, and International Finance Corporation (IFC) has
made a beginning in addressing these issues. The Bank made
some significant pilot contributions to addressing the
affordability of electricity connections. Collaboration grew
among World Bank, IFC, and MIGA through joint projects,
which helps break ground for the private sector in some
high-risk and fragile countries, and supports a few large
and complex projects. The scale of the SE4All challenge
requires the Bank Group to reposition itself as a global
solutions provider in the sector, going well beyond the
confines of its own direct support for access. This
evaluation points to the urgency for the Bank Group‘s energy
practice to adopt a new and transformative strategy to help
country clients orchestrate a national, sustained
sector-level engagement for universal access. A major
challenge in this effort is to deploy the Bank Group units’
individual and collective strengths beyond Bank Group–led
projects and transactions to stimulate private sector
investments for closing the financing gap, especially in
generation, for low-access countries. |
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World Bank Group Support to Electricity Access, FY2000-2014 : An Independent Evaluation |
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World Bank Group Support to Electricity Access, FY2000-2014 : An Independent Evaluation |
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World Bank Group Support to Electricity Access, FY2000-2014 : An Independent Evaluation |
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World Bank Group Support to Electricity Access, FY2000-2014 : An Independent Evaluation |
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okr-10986-229532021-06-14T10:16:02Z World Bank Group Support to Electricity Access, FY2000-2014 : An Independent Evaluation Independent Evaluation Group TAX INCENTIVES KEROSENE LAMPS ELECTRIC SERVICES EMPLOYMENT POWER GRID SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUTURE POWER PLANTS RENEWABLE RESOURCES RESIDENTIAL CONSUMERS KILOWATT-HOUR AIR QUALITY SOLAR HOME SYSTEMS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ELECTRICITY TARIFF ACTIVITIES ACCESS TO MODERN ENERGY ENERGY EXPENDITURE RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT GENERATION RETAIL ELECTRICITY SURPLUS POWER WIND ELECTRICITY SYSTEM WIND FARMS EMISSIONS RURAL ENERGY DEVELOPMENT THERMAL POWER PLANTS BIOGAS BATTERIES POWER PROJECT POWER SHORTAGES ENERGY GENERATION GAS GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS PRICE EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT GLOBAL GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS VOLTAGE POWER SYSTEM GREENHOUSE GAS ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION SOLAR ELECTRIFICATION BIOMASS GENERATION CAPACITY RURAL ELECTRIC ELECTRICITY UTILITIES ENERGY POLICIES GRID EXTENSION OIL AIR POLLUTION POWER GENERATION ENERGY MIX ENERGY SOURCES SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SOLAR PANELS POWER SECTOR ELECTRIC SUPPLY RENEWABLE SOURCE GAS DEVELOPMENT SOLAR HOME SYSTEM ELECTRIFICATION RURAL ENERGY OPTIONS WATER ENERGY RESOURCES IMPROVING ENERGY EFFICIENCY RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES ELECTRICITY SUPPLY POLLUTION GRID CONNECTION POWER COMPANY GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT THERMAL POWER POWER DISTRIBUTION ACCESS TO ENERGY SERVICES GRID EXPANSION POWER PRODUCERS GREENHOUSE GASES POWER PURCHASE AGREEMENTS POST-CONFLICT RENEWABLE GENERATION ENERGY CONSUMPTION FUEL SUPPLY GRID ELECTRICITY SERVICE ACCESS TO ENERGY KEROSENE CONSUMPTION POWER DEMAND GRID CONNECTIONS HEAT RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES CLIMATE CHANGE BALANCE ELECTRIC POWER POWER CORPORATION ELECTRICITY DEMAND ALTERNATIVE ENERGY HYDRO POWER UTILITIES ENERGY NEEDS SUPPLY OF ELECTRICITY POWER ELECTRICITY GRID ELECTRIFICATION ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PROGRAM ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS SMALL POWER PRODUCERS HYDROPOWER ELECTRICITY GENERATION CONNECTED HOUSEHOLDS FOSSIL FUEL CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION HEAVY FUEL OIL ELECTRIC POWER DEMAND ELECTRICITY TARIFFS RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION GLOBAL EMISSIONS ENERGY USE RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES CONVENTIONAL GENERATION GRID RENEWABLE ENERGY TURBINES PILOT PROJECTS ELECTRICITY USAGE WIND FARM ENERGY EFFICIENCY ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY GENERATION CAPACITY POWER PRODUCER NATURAL GAS HOUSEHOLD ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION GENERATION OF ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION LINE INVESTMENT SOLAR LANTERNS ENERGY DEVELOPMENT POWER CAPACITY TARIFF SOLAR CELLS ENERGY MANAGEMENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK FUEL FUEL OIL AVAILABILITY FACILITIES RURAL ELECTRIFICATION INVESTMENTS RENEWABLE SOURCES FINANCIAL COVENANTS WIND TURBINES RENEWABLE ENERGY ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION GASES HEAT SUPPLY DIESEL KEROSENE PIPELINE FOSSIL PRICES APPROACH GRID ELECTRICITY GAS DISTRIBUTION UTILITY CHARGES ENERGY ELECTRICITY UTILITY The World Bank Group has committed to achieving universal access to electricity by 2030 under the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative. This is a daunting challenge: more than 1 billion people do not have access, and another 1 billion have chronically inadequate or unreliable service. Most of those without access are poor, and the largest share is in Sub-Saharan Africa. Achieving universal access within 15 years for the low-access countries (those with under 50 percent coverage) requires a quantum leap from their present pace of 1.6 million connections per year to 14.6 million per year until 2030. The investment needed would be about $37 billion per year, including erasing generation deficits and meeting demand from economic growth. By comparison, in recent years, low-access countries received an average of $3.6 billion per year for their electricity sectors from public and private sources, including $1.5 billion per year from the World Bank Group. Development outcomes of the Bank Group’s assistance were generally favorable compared with other infrastructure sectors. However, performance in improving financial viability of country electricity sectors was below expectations. There were significant gaps in the Bank Group’s coverage of low-access countries, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Median implementation time of World Bank investment projects was nine years, with time overruns attributable to inadequate project design and borrower capacity. Support for off-grid electrification was low and sporadic, with a few notable exceptions. The Bank Group’s growing non-conventional renewable energy portfolio is dealing with technology and regulatory challenges. Tracking welfare and gender impacts in World Bank projects has improved, and International Finance Corporation (IFC) has made a beginning in addressing these issues. The Bank made some significant pilot contributions to addressing the affordability of electricity connections. Collaboration grew among World Bank, IFC, and MIGA through joint projects, which helps break ground for the private sector in some high-risk and fragile countries, and supports a few large and complex projects. The scale of the SE4All challenge requires the Bank Group to reposition itself as a global solutions provider in the sector, going well beyond the confines of its own direct support for access. This evaluation points to the urgency for the Bank Group‘s energy practice to adopt a new and transformative strategy to help country clients orchestrate a national, sustained sector-level engagement for universal access. A major challenge in this effort is to deploy the Bank Group units’ individual and collective strengths beyond Bank Group–led projects and transactions to stimulate private sector investments for closing the financing gap, especially in generation, for low-access countries. 2015-11-11T19:01:51Z 2015-11-11T19:01:51Z 2015-07-07 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/10/25161357/world-bank-group-support-electricity-access-fy2000-14-independent-evaluation-main-report http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22953 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper |