The guide highlights the ground-level regulatory and policy questions that must be answered by electricity regulators, rural energy agencies, and ministries to promote commercially sustainable investments by private operators and community organizations. Among the practical questions addressed is how to design and implement retail tariffs, quality of service standards, feed-in tariffs, and backup tariffs. The guide also analyzes the regulatory implementation issues triggered by donor grants and so-called top-up payments.

Mini Grids and the Arrival of the Main Grid: Lessons from Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Indonesia

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The report is the most comprehensive study on mini grids to date. It takes stock of the global mini grid market and industry; analyzes in detail the solar-hybrid mini grid costs and technological innovations; shows the importance of introducing income-generating machinery and micro-finance early in the planning process; and provides policy makers, investors and developers with insights on how mini grids can be scaled up.

This Law, consisting of 63 articles divided into twelve Chapters and a Glossary, aims at defining the general organization of the electricity sector and the legal regime for electricity supply activities.

Tanzania's Rural Energy Act is similar to the Cambodian law, but much more detailed. It establishes a Rural Electrification Board, Agency and Fund and describes in considerable detail the functions and relationships of these different entities. The Tanzanian law also provides more detail on sources of financing for the fund. In 2010, the World Bank initiated efforts to provide a line of credit that would provide easier access to longer term and lower cost loans to supplement the grants provided by the Rural Electrification Fund.

Energy Sector Management Assistance Program. 2021. Assessing and Mapping Renewable Energy Resources, Second Edition. © World Bank, Washington, DC

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The guidance in this handbook is structured though a step-by-step approach to operation and maintenance (O&M) strategy development and implementation.

The Blue Carbon Readiness Framework, is a step-by-step, well-illustrated guide with simple checklists, that can be used to determine readiness and to catalyze and scale up investment in blue carbon credit finance.

The Blue Carbon Readiness Framework consists of three pillars:

The Scientific Basis for Action on Blue Carbon Ecosystems (Pillar 1).

Building a Policy and Institutional Environment for Blue Carbon (Pillar 2).

Mobilizing Finance for Blue Carbon (Pillar 3). 

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Contents

• Street Lighting & Energy Consumption in India: The Development Challenge

• Case Study 1: The City of Bhubaneswar 2013

• Case Study 2: The City of Jaipur 2014

• Table: Shared Savings Model vs. Notional Savings Model

• Case Study 3: Odisha State 2016

• Case Study 4: The City of Bengaluru 2019

• Lessons from India's Experience in Street Lighting PPPs