Leveraging Digital Finance to Scale the Solar Home Systems Market in Pakistan

Decentralized solar home systems (SHS), coupled with asset finance, can provide affordable and reliable electricity to the off-grid population in Pakistan and can augment the energy supply where the grid is available but the electricity supply is l...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:	SOLAR ENERGY DIGITAL FINANCE SOLAR HOME SYSTEM MOBILE WALLET MOBILE BANKING SERVICES MOBILE BANKING REGULATION MICROFINANCE
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/099035001102212371/P16931302f0bb9084093da0f35e167ee29a http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36836

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spelling	okr-10986-368362022-06-15T13:52:39Z Leveraging Digital Finance to Scale the Solar Home Systems Market in Pakistan World Bank SOLAR ENERGY DIGITAL FINANCE SOLAR HOME SYSTEM MOBILE WALLET MOBILE BANKING SERVICES MOBILE BANKING REGULATION MICROFINANCE Decentralized solar home systems (SHS), coupled with asset finance, can provide affordable and reliable electricity to the off-grid population in Pakistan and can augment the energy supply where the grid is available but the electricity supply is limited. Pakistan ranks high on the metric of market readiness for SHS technology. In addition, the country has all the underlying system requirements to leverage mobile banking for growing the local SHS market. In 2020, there were 167.3 million cellular mobile subscribers providing mobile phone access to 95 percent of the country’s households. The GSM Association (GSMA) estimates that close to 30 million people, or 14 percent of the total population in Pakistan, is covered by a mobile network before having access to the grid. This brief analysis was compiled by the World Bank to assess the potential for using mobile banking to scale the SHS market in Pakistan. The report explores the synergy between mobile banking services and SHS businesses, and develops a use case for mobile wallets in SHS business models through a case study of the SHS market in Sindh, Pakistan. 2022-01-18T20:33:56Z 2022-01-18T20:33:56Z 2022-05 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/099035001102212371/P16931302f0bb9084093da0f35e167ee29a http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36836 English Pakistan Sustainable Energy Series; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Financial Sector Study South Asia Pakistan
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topic	SOLAR ENERGY DIGITAL FINANCE SOLAR HOME SYSTEM MOBILE WALLET MOBILE BANKING SERVICES MOBILE BANKING REGULATION MICROFINANCE
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description	Decentralized solar home systems (SHS), coupled with asset finance, can provide affordable and reliable electricity to the off-grid population in Pakistan and can augment the energy supply where the grid is available but the electricity supply is limited. Pakistan ranks high on the metric of market readiness for SHS technology. In addition, the country has all the underlying system requirements to leverage mobile banking for growing the local SHS market. In 2020, there were 167.3 million cellular mobile subscribers providing mobile phone access to 95 percent of the country’s households. The GSM Association (GSMA) estimates that close to 30 million people, or 14 percent of the total population in Pakistan, is covered by a mobile network before having access to the grid. This brief analysis was compiled by the World Bank to assess the potential for using mobile banking to scale the SHS market in Pakistan. The report explores the synergy between mobile banking services and SHS businesses, and develops a use case for mobile wallets in SHS business models through a case study of the SHS market in Sindh, Pakistan.
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title	Leveraging Digital Finance to Scale the Solar Home Systems Market in Pakistan
title_short	Leveraging Digital Finance to Scale the Solar Home Systems Market in Pakistan
title_full	Leveraging Digital Finance to Scale the Solar Home Systems Market in Pakistan
title_fullStr	Leveraging Digital Finance to Scale the Solar Home Systems Market in Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed	Leveraging Digital Finance to Scale the Solar Home Systems Market in Pakistan
title_sort	leveraging digital finance to scale the solar home systems market in pakistan
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2022
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Leveraging Digital Finance to Scale the Solar Home Systems Market in Pakistan

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