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.

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.

The objective of the Disruption and PPPs Section is to help governments of emerging economies to better understand the increasing impact of disruptive technologies on PPP infrastructure projects, and to provide guidance on how to manage existing and design future PPP contracts.

The five case studies below illustrates how different categories of technology disruption and disruptive events were dealt with in various PPP projects and what good practices might entail. These practical examples are drawn from different sectors and from both developed and developing countries globally.

This section discusses how existing PPP projects can manage technological change that may occur during the project implementation phase.¹

This section of Disruption and PPPs is also supplemented with the following examples and resources.                 

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Technology is consistently innovating and developing. However, during recent years the pace of technological change has been accelerating rapidly across the global economy. Disruptive technologies can open up unprecedented opportunities for all infrastructure sectors, in particular with regard to digitalization and decarbonization. At the same time, innovative technology has the potential to displace established business models or supersede existing technologies within a short timeframe, thereby creating winners and losers within infrastructure markets.