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Does Renewable Energy Increase Farmers’ Well-being? Evidence from Solar Irrigation Interventions in Bangladesh

Working Papers
Solar irrigation provides an opportunity to irrigate a larger amount of land due to reliability, affordability, and accessibility.
As an alternative clean and climate-friendly energy source, renewable energy has gained increased importance in government policies, in particular regarding the use of…

Guidebook for Deploying Distributed Renewable Energy Systems: A Case Study on the Cobrador Hybrid Solar PV Mini-Grid

Reports and Publications
This guidebook runs the reader through the design, preparation, and installation of a renewable energy-based hybrid solar photovoltaic mini-grid system, with a specific application in island settings. Lessons from the hybrid mini-grid pilot project implemented in Cobrador, Romblon Islands in the…

Increasing Access to Clean Cooking in the Philippines: Challenges and Prospects

Reports and Publications
This publication analyzes the use of clean and efficient cooking technologies in the Philippines and identifies opportunities and challenges to fast-track their uptake.In Asia and the Pacific, 1.8 billion people still rely on traditional cooking methods using fires and solid fuels. The wider uptake…

Myanmar Off-Grid Renewable Energy Demonstration Project

Projects
ADB initiated this technical assistance (TA) to scale-up off-grid solutions and to strengthen the government’s capacity to design and implement energy access projects. The TA aims to provide clean energy to 0.4 million households and public facilities by 2022 through the installation of 10 MW small…

Pacific Renewable Energy Program Annual Report (April to December 2019)

Reports and Publications
This is the first report of the Program that was jointly developed by PSOD and PAEN under One ADB since it was approved in April 2019. The Pacific Renewable Energy Program (Program) provides an umbrella facility of up to $100,000,000 of financing support, including loans, guarantees, and letters of…

Simpa Networks Off-Grid Prepaid Solar Leasing Project

Projects
ADB supports Simpa Networks with a USD 2M equity investment and USD 6M loan (Clean Technology Fund) that expands the company’s off-grid, pay-as-you-go (PayGo) solar energy services to more underserved households in rural India. Simpa provides SHS products made affordable with a leasing model and a…

Green Finance for Asian State-Owned Enterprises: An Opportunity to Accelerate the Green Transition

Reports and Publications
The report explores how SOEs can develop and deploy sustainable financial instruments, in particular green bonds, to help finance their green transition. To accelerate the successful adoption of green finance tools in Asia's emerging economies, the publication examines how their SOEs can improve…

MOU signed for first coal power plant to be retired in Indonesia under ETM

Press Releases
On 14 November 2022, ADB joined strategic partners in the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MOU) under the Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) exploring the early decommissioning of the first coal-fired plant owned by Cirebon Electric Power (CEP), an independent power producer in…

Inclusive Community Energy Resilience in Bangladesh

Working Papers
This paper proposes a framework for mainstreaming GESI performance in electricity distribution system planning and establishes a methodology for measuring and comparing community and electricity distribution system resilience to extreme weather events and clarifies how the approach can be tested in…

Climate Change and Earthquake Exposure in Asia and the Pacific: Assessment of Energy and Transport Infrastructure

Reports and Publications
This study analyzes the exposure of energy and transport assets in Asia and the Pacific to climate change and earthquake hazards and highlights how multi-hazard assessment can help strengthen the resilience of crucial infrastructure.
 
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