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.

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Check out the Municipal Case Stories section for examples on disruptive events or see some examples below.  See Covid-19 and PPPs to find out more.

Disruption can  bring about extraordinary opportunities for progress, with cleaner, more efficient, and more resilient infrastructure services. These opportunities should be seized and celebrated. However, changes from the status quo create pain points that must be carefully managed, in particular when long-term PPP contracts are structured based on a financial model on which financing relies. Unraveling such commitments has proven contentious and difficult.

Disruptive technologies present extraordinary opportunities for progress, with cleaner, more efficient, and more resilient infrastructure services. These opportunities should be seized and celebrated. However, changes from the status quo create pain points that must be carefully managed, in particular when long-term PPP contracts are structured based on a financial model on which financing relies. Unraveling such commitments has proven contentious and difficult.

The increasing number of global disruption raises many questions;

Preparing for disruption starts well before the contract stage, during project selection and preparation. Useful guidance can be drawn from the global experience of the impact of disruptive events on PPPs; analysis of underlying issues, occurrences, and impacts of risks and ways to address them; and tools that have been developed to deal with the growing number of disruptive events in the context of PPPs.

The energy transition is the process of shifting the global energy system away from the consumption of fossil fuels and toward low-carbon technologies in order to support international goals of limiting climate change.¹ The World Bank Group’s Country Climate and Development Reports (CCDRs) are a core diagnostic that integrates climate change and development, to help countries prioritize the most impactful actions that can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and boost adaptation and resilience, while delive

Bridging the infrastructure gap is essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. To help governments make informed decisions about improving the access and quality of infrastructure services, including the use of public-private partnerships (PPP) as one delivery option, a series of tools to help governments have been developed: 

• Tools to develop and prioritize infrastructure pipeline 

• Tools to design and improve the PPP framework

The World Bank Emission Reduction Program (ERP) aims to help countries leverage the benefits of Emission Reduction Credits (ERC) markets, including increased revenue streams, reduced emissions, and improved environmental sustainability.