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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…

Energy Sector Group set to chart its work plan for the year

Press Releases
An Energy Sector Group Strategic Session is being planned for the last week of January to define the sector’s thrust, targets, and urgent tasks for 2022 to 2023. As in previous years, a report on the year that was will be delivered followed by the proposed work plan for the year.
On top of the…

Energy SG Strategy Session will be on 28 January

Press Releases
The next critical part after having a new Energy Policy is preparing its implementation. This year’s Strategy Session of the Energy Sector Group will zero in on precisely this. Apart from preparing the guidance notes[1], we are also expected to draft the Energy Sector Framework that would contain…

Directions for 2022-2023 set at the Energy Sector Strategy Session

Press Releases
On 28 January, the Energy Committee, the Energy Sector Group Secretariat, and several staff members from various energy divisions held a Strategy Session to set the objectives, targets, and tasks for the coming year. Colleagues from other sectors and thematic groups also attended.
A central element…

ADB calls for innovative financing for ocean health improvement

Press Releases
At the launch of the publication, Financing the Ocean Back to Health in Southeast Asia: Approaches for Mainstreaming Blue Finance, ADB called for scaling up of finance flows into ocean health improvement and related projects in Asia and the Pacific to combat growing threats from unchecked…