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1 online resource (xv, 165 pages) : color illustrations |
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World Bank e-Library.
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| Contents |
Executive summary. Two faces of energy poverty: lack of access to electricity and modern cooking solutions -- Electrification and development: fighting poverty and stimulating the economy -- Modern cooking solutions: clean fuels and advanced cookstoves -- One goal: achieving universal energy access -- 1. Two paths to universal energy access in the EAP region: Energy access, poverty, and development -- Electricity access in EAP: success, stagnation, and a rural-urban divide -- Laying out the energy access challenges for EAP countries -- 2. Designing a national electrification program for universal access: Cost-effectiveness: least-cost technical options for desired reliability and quality of service -- Affordability of electricity access -- Consumer focus and timing of electrification -- Universal and business-as-usual electricity access scenarios -- 3. Electricity access: Delivering results on the ground -- Sustained government commitment -- Effective enabling policy framework -- Accountability for results -- 4. Modern cooking solutions: status and challenges -- Relationship among traditional cooking solutions, health, and poverty -- Status of cooking fuel use in EAP policies to encourage clean and efficient cooking -- Advances in cookstoves and biogas systems -- Two scenarios for modern cooking solutions -- 5. Modern cooking solutions: the way forward -- What is different from the past? -- Policy and technical support for new approaches -- Pathway to implementation -- 6. One goal: achieving universal energy access in the EAP region -- Both paths must be implemented -- Both paths will bring significant economic, social, and environmental benefits to all EAP countries |
| Summary |
Despite the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region's impressive economic growth, over 1 billion of its people still lack access to electricity and modern cooking solutions. To achieve universal access to modern energy by 2030, this book exhorts EAP countries to advance simultaneously on two paths: (1) accelerate programs for grid and off-grid electricity through appropriate policies and innovative technologies; and (2) scale up access to clean cooking fuels and efficient cooking stoves, particularly for biomass in poor rural areas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Energy policy -- East Asia
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Power resources -- East Asia
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Energy policy -- Pacific Area
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Power resources -- Pacific Area
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Energy.
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Power Resources -- General.
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Energy policy
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Power resources
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East Asia
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Pacific Area
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780821388709 |
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0821388371 |
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9780821388372 |
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0821388703 |
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