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in Latin America has fallen relative to those of other countries, raising concerns about the capacity of the region to …
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in Latin America has fallen relative to those of other countries, raising concerns about the capacity of the region to …
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This book is a joint effort lead by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in collaboration with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) focused on the climate and development challenge for LAC. It deals with a matter that is bound...
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growth. The paper argues that the key rationale for promoting renewable DG in LAC is to reduce the cost of electricity for a … assessed in the light of the experience of Denmark, which has the world's highest share of DG (over 50 percent of electricity …
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taken place in Chile since the late 1980s in the electricity sector. This sector was chosen because the privatization …. The paper also assesses how lessons learned in the reform of electricity were internalized in the design of the regulatory …
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In this technical paper, the author addresses pertinent issues that affect reform in the power sector and the status of current efforts. The objective of the paper is such: 1) It explains the difficulties in achieving a separation of the roles of the State in an environment in which it continues...
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-term scenario which describes the need to increase Coal Plants at a faster pace than overall electricity demand; (ii) a technical …
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decades in implementing all types of models, Market or State? counsels caution and moderation in proposing reforms and allows …
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The general objective of this study is to provide an overview of fossil-fuel-based electric power technologies other than coal-fired technologies (coal-fired technologies are the subject of a specific guideline that has already been adopted by the IDB) and an assessment of the relevance of these...
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This study compares the levelized cost of electricity generated with fossil fuels (including coal, natural gas, fuel … range of levelized cost of electricity for each technology. In addition, the study examined how the cost of electricity was … and levelized costs of electricity by repowering existing thermal power plants or switching high-carbon fuels to lower …
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