IDA - Energy

IDA at Work: Energy Services for Poverty Reduction and Economic Growth

For the past 10 years, under-investment in the power sector in IDA countries has resulted in a huge and growing power supply shortfall, unreliable service and slow progress on extending service to poorly served populations.

IDA’s investment and guarantees are playing a critical role in leveraging new investments. IDA leverages about three times the funding it commits. In Fiscal Year 2006, the total cost of energy projects partially financed by IDA was about US$3 billion.

Learn more about IDA’s work in this area over the last 10 years:
Download: Energy
[PDF, 8-page brief, July 2009]

Build-Operate-Transfer Power Plant in Vietnam: Attracting private capital to meet energy needs.

Rural Electricity in Lao PDR Electricity in Rural Lao PDR: Access has tripled in 10 years.

- Renewable Energy in Sri Lanka
- Private Plants in Bangladesh
- Solar Panels for Rural Electrification in Bangladesh
- Sustainable Woodfuels in Senegal
- News: World Bank Supports Uganda's Bujagali Hydropower Project
- Rural Electrification in Vietnam

In Uganda, 95 percent of the people live without electricity. The World Bank is supporting an energy program for rural transformation. Public and private investments in a new plant at Bujagali will give Uganda's electric power supply a chance to take off. Play video below.

- Download and read on the go: IDA/Energy brochure [PDF]
- What is IDA? The International Development Association (IDA) is the part of the World Bank that provides interest-free credits and grants to the world’s poorest countries. Learn more
- Explore the World Bank's Energy website.
- Lighting Africa is a World Bank Group initiative aimed at providing up to 250 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa with access to non-fossil fuel based, low cost, safe, and reliable lighting products with associated basic energy services by the year 2030.
- Read about the Bank's commitment to clean energy [PDF]