Expanding Energy Access While Reducing GHG Emissions
On Earth Day 2020, more than 5,000 environmental groups from 184 countries, representing hundreds of millions of citizens around the world, sent a message to global leaders that they wanted…
Press Release: World Bank Provides Over $200 Million to Help Increase Access to Electricity in West Africa and the Sahel Region
The Board of the World Bank Group approved on April 17, 2019 the Regional Off-Grid Electrification Project (ROGEP), which includes $150 million in the form of credit and grant from…
Policy Engagement
…of more than twenty World Bank-funded energy access projects around the globe. The World Bank’s Commitment to Off-Grid Solar As the beneficial impacts of off-grid solar are increasingly felt and…
NEWS | First Indian-Made Solar Powered Torch Meets LG Quality Standards
JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN – Frontier Markets, a company with the mission to provide access to quality clean energy solutions in rural India, has launched a solar powered torch that meets the…
In the News: In Kenya, A Solar Program Puts “Last-Mile” Consumers First
Besides bringing safe lighting products to rural areas of Kenya, Lighting Africa is also training women for a new source of income. © Lighting Africa When her neighbor’s house burned…
NEWS | VeraSol Launches at the Global Off-Grid Solar Forum & Expo
…the operational leadership of CLASP and the Schatz Center, VeraSol will build collective ownership of QA services across an expanded group stakeholders. Foundational support is provided by the World Bank…
In the News: IFC’s Russell Sturm Interviewed by CNBC Africa on Off-Grid Solar Market
On the sidelines of the recent 2017 spring meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund, CNBC Africa’s Nozipho Mbanjwa spoke with Russell Sturm, Global Head…
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IFC Launches South-to-South Solar Power Project to Light Up Papua New Guinea
…Guinea, May 27, 2014—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today launched Lighting Papua New Guinea, a project to help half a million people get safe and affordable solar…
Rest of World
…launched our first project in Haiti, where less than 50% of the population has access to grid electricity, under the World Bank’s Haiti Modern Energy for All project. …