Brazil: Municipal Energy Efficiency
This series showcases how the World Bank Group supports the development and implementation of public-private partnerships. This support comes in the form of public sector loans, private sector finance, sector and transaction advice, guarantees, and output-based aid.
The World Bank Group partnered with the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte to support their long-term strategies to build low-carbon cities, conducting a study in each city to examine the viability of investments in energy efficiency in the public street lighting sector. These studies looked at the existing institutional and regulatory arrangements and identified opportunities for both public and private investments for the modernization of public street lighting. As a result of this work, both Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte have decided to proceed with implementing energy efficiency projects on a public-private partnership basis.
