Economic & Financial Analysis

General

• Technical and Economic Assessment: Off Grid, Mini-Grid and Grid Electrification Technologies
• World Bank Good Practice Guidelines. Web link
• Web link to HOMER
• Web link to RETSCREEN
• WBG Intranet Operational Guidelines (for World Bank staff only)
  • OP 10.00 - Investment Lending: Identification to Board Presentation
  • OP 10.04 - Economic Evaluation of Investment Operations
  • BP 10.04 - Economic Evaluation of Investment Operations
  • Handbook on Economic Analysis for Investment Projects
  • OP 4.01 - Environmental Assessment: A guideline for handling externalities

• Introduction to Environmental Externality Costs
• Estimating Air Pollution Emissions from Fossil Fuel Use in the Electricity Sector in Mexico, North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, April 2004.
• ESMAP Mexico: TA for Long-term Program for Renewable Energy Development
• New Energy for America, The Apollo Jobs Report: Good Jobs & Energy Independence, January 2004.
• Economic and Financial Analysis of the China Renewable Energy Scaleup Programme (CRESP), Volume I: The Economically Optimal Quantity of Grid-connected Renewable Energy, Peter Meier
• South Africa: Renewable Energy Market Transformation (REMT) Project, Draft Report, Economic and Financial Analysis Due Diligence
• Economic Analysis of Mexico Wind Project, Donald Hertzmark
• A Portfolio Approach to Energy Planning in Mexico, World Bank, Shimon Awerbuch, Ph.D. and Martin Berger, D-Ing
• Cost Benefit Analysis for Renewable Energy in Croatia, Final Report for HBOR and World Bank/GEF
• Accounting for Fuel Price Risk When Comparing Renewable to Gas-Fired Generation: The Role of Forward Natural Gas Prices, Mark Bolinger, Ryan Wiser, and William Golove, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Electricity Costs of PV-Hybrid vs. Diesel in Microgrids for Village Power, X. Vallvé, G. Gafas, C. Arias, J.J. Mendoza, C. Torra., 17th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition
• Tariff Structures, A "Universal" PV-Based Rural Electrification Scheme, O. Gavaldà, X.Vallvé, I.Vosseler, Trama Tecnoambiental S.L.
• Independent Evaluation of the ILZRO/RAPS Diesel/PV Hybrid System in Padre Cocha, the Amazon Region of Peru (CONSOLIDATED SUMMARY)
  • Independent Financial and Institutional Evaluation of the ILZRO/RAPS Diesel/PV Hybrid System in Padre Cocha, the Amazon Region of Peru 
  • Independent Economic Evaluation of the ILZRO/RAPS Renewable Energy System in the Amazon Region of Peru
• Sri Lanka Energy Services Delivery Project Published Small Power Purchase Tariff
• Productive Uses of Energy for Rural Development

• Economic Analysis of Solar Home Systems: A Case Study for the Philippines, Peter Meier, Prepared for The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
• Solar Photovoltaic Water Pumping: A Permanent Solution to the Small Farmers' Problem. Lt. Co. T.S. Surendra (Retd)

• Bolivia SHS Financial Model (Spanish)