 LAO PDR -  Power to the People: Twenty Years of National Electrification - This report presents the remarkable success story of the rapid deployment of a national electrification program by Lao People's Democratic Republic, integrated within a broader strategy of national and rural development. These efforts resulted in the quadrupling of the access rate from approximately 15 percent in 1995 to 70 percent in 2010, primarily through an extension of the grid. Moving toward the government target of 90 percent coverage by 2020 will require a dramatic increase in coverage by off-grid solutions. Lao PDR - Power to the People: Twenty Years of National Electrification [pdf] January 2012 | |  TRANSPORT -   Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation in Road Construction and Rehabilitation: A Toolkit for Developing Countries - In expectation of population and automobile growth trends, the East Asia Sustainable Development Unit was tasked with conducting a timely study for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions due to road construction and rehabilitation in East Asia. The development of this toolkit represents an effort to introduce new methodologies to reduce the gap between international best practices and the state-of-practice in East Asia. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Mitigation in Road Construction and Rehabilitation: A Toolkit for Developing Countries [pdf] June 2011 | |  VIETNAM - State and People, Central and Local, Working Together: The Rural Electrification Experience - This book chronicles the development of Vietnam’s rural electrification program. It tells the story of how the Vietnamese government conceived, developed, scaled up, and improved its program. It also discusses the roles the government, the country’s main utility, local authorities, local communities, and the country’s international development partners played in the pursuit of the electrification agenda. Vietnam - State and People, Central and Local, Working Together: The Rural Electrification Experience [pdf] March 2011. Also watch the companion video, The Last Mile.
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|  CAMBODIA - Supporting Self-Sustaining Commercial Markets for Improved Cookstoves and Household Biodigesters -This document highlights the technical reports of two programs related to the dissemination of efficient cookstoves and biodigesters that are working to develop creative business models and payment schemes so that poorer households can access these energy-efficient, renewable technologies and improve their livelihoods. Cambodia - Supporting Self-Sustaining Commercial Markets for Improved Cookstoves and Household Biodigesters [pdf] December 2010 Also watch the video: Gender Dimension of Improved Cooking Stoves in Cambodia. |
|  TIMOR-LESTE - Key Issues in Rural Energy Policy - This report presents key issues in the development of a rural energy policy for Timor-Leste. The study proposes practical recommendations derived from lessons learned from international experience in the areas of off-grid electrification, household energy, and the development of biofuels from Jatropha crops.  Timor-Leste - Key Issues in Rural Eenergy Policy [pdf] December 2010Â
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|  VIETNAM - Expanding Opportunities in Energy Efficiency -Â Vietnam has made great strides in promoting energy efficiency measures in recent years, including the newly launched National Energy-Efficiency Program, a draft law on Energy Conservation and Efficient Use, This report provides an overview of energy demand trends in Vietnam, examines the need to promote energy efficiency, and summarizes ongoing government and international donor efforts in supporting Vietnam's energy efficiency initiatives. It also offers the suggestions and recommendations on how the government can expand energy-efficiency results in the future.
Vietnam - Expanding Opportunities in Energy Efficiency [pdf] February 2010 |
|  CHINA Offshore Wind Report - With support from AusAID and ASTAE, China: Meeting the Challenges of Offshore and Large-Scale Wind Power was implemented as a joint effort of the National Energy Administration of China and the World Bank, to gather lessons learned from international experience in large-scale onshore and offshore wind power development, with a view to informing China’s strategy going forward. The following two publications have been produced:- Regulatory Review of Offshore Wind in Five European Countries provides a detailed description and evaluation of the regulatory approaches that various countries in Europe have taken to develop offshore wind energy.
- Meeting the Challenges of Offshore and Large-Scale Wind Power: Strategic Guidance defines a roadmap for the promotion of offshore and large-scale onshore wind developments in China, and summarizes the messages emerging from a high-level workshop held in Beijing.
China Offshore Wind Report #1Â [pdf]Â February 2010
China Offshore Wind Report #2Â [pdf]Â February 2010Â |
| | For a more complete listing of ASTAE publications, see the Publications and Reports section of this site. | |  |
| | | VIDEO: Electricity for All - A Gender Lens |  | Power to the Poor (P2P) is a World Bank supported program in Lao PDR that provides targeted support to poor and women-headed households that are unable to finance the initial cost of connection to the power grid. Watch the Video (6.45 min) | | | VIDEO: Lighting Homes, Empowering Lives - 20 Years of Electrification in Lao PDR | | Beneficiaries talk about the results of World Bank assistance to the electrification of LAO PDR that helped move the population connected to the power grid from 16% in 1995 to an impressive 70% in 2009. Watch the Video (6.57 min) | | | | Winds of Change: East Asia’s Sustainable Energy Future |  Major investments in energy efficiency and a concerted effort to switch to renewable sources of power in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam could simultaneously stabilize greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy security, amd improve local environments.Â
Full Report (3.02mb pdf)
| | VIDEO: The Next Steppe - Mongolia's Energy Future |  The Next Steppe - Mongolia's Energy Future looks at the culturally specific complexity, the technical challenges, and accomplishments of producing and delivering energy in Mongolia.
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Wind Energy Resource Atlases | Two atlases, one for Southeast Asia and the other for the Pacific Islands, were created to facilitate the development of wind energy for utility-scale generation, village power, and other off-grid applications. Pacific Islands Wind Atlas
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