 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 2012Â
Also watch the companion videos, Lao PDR: Electricity for All - A Gender Lens and Lighting Homes, Empowering Lives: Twenty Years of Electrification in Lao PDR. | |  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. |
| | 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:  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
Also available in Chinese
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.
China Offshore Wind Report #2Â [pdf]Â February 2010
Also available in Chinese |
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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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