Entrepreneurs in developing countries report that unreliable electricity imposes a serious constraint, yet little …

Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid … extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor … households' willingness-to-pay for different types of electricity access, including lower cost off-grid technologies. The …

Access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa is the lowest in the world, although a larger proportion of the population … data to examine the determinants of, and barriers to, electricity uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa. It supplements the analysis … with qualitative fieldwork in three countries. Regarding the areas under the electricity grid, the paper follows Wodon and …

of fuel subsidies, cross-border electricity trade, and reduction of carbon dioxide emissions in line with commitments … under the Paris Agreement. The analysis uses a power system planning model that minimizes the total electricity supply cost … gas used for power generation. It would save USD 83.6 billion to USD 90.9 billion through cross-border electricity trade …

The levelized cost of electricity is the most common indicator used to compare the cost competitiveness of electricity … considering the wide variations in factors that influence the levelized costs of electricity across countries and technologies …. This study calculates more than 4,000 levelized costs of electricity for 11 technologies, varying key input variables. The …

This study assesses the accuracy of time-series econometric methods in forecasting electricity demand in developing … simple heuristic models, which assume that electricity demand grows at an exogenous rate or is proportional to real gross …

to respond to regulatory instruments. On the choice of regulatory regimes, the ongoing debate between price cap and rate …

developing economies-Indonesia and Mexico. It finds that unlike increases in electricity prices, which harm plants' performance …, fuel price hikes result in higher productivity and profits of manufacturing plants. The results of instrumental variable … Indonesian and 1.2 percent for Mexican plants. The evidence suggests that effects are driven by the incentives that fuel price …

. Increasing electricity availability affects the reallocation of inputs to more productive activities through generating higher … these two dimensions, followed by services and agriculture. The expansion of electricity infrastructure explains about 17 …

This paper presents an analysis of the economic impact of electricity price increases in Bangladesh. A computable … general equilibrium (CGE) model is developed and used to trace through the impact of an increase in the price of electricity … in a more expensive fuel mix for power generation, which will lead to a need to increase the price of electricity …