UPBEAT- Utility Performance and Behavior Today

By ESMAP

The UPBEAT platform is a World Bank initiative to help electric utilities, governments, investors, researchers and other power sector stakeholders to measure, monitor, and share utility performance. The platform tracks financial and operational performance indicators from utilities in all World Bank regions: East Asia Pacific (EAP), Europe & Central Asia (ECA), Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), Middle East and North Africa (MENA), South Asia (SAR), and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

UPBEAT contains data from 2012 onwards and is intended to be periodically updated as data becomes available. Utilities differ in when they conclude their financial years, and for many utilities the financial year does not coincide with the calendar year. For UPBEAT, the “year” of a data point is the calendar year in which the majority of a utility’s financial year takes place (for instance, utility revenues reported from April 2019 to March 2020 would be mapped to the year 2019 for UPBEAT). For utilities that end their financial years in June, the UPBEAT “year” is the year in which the utility’s financial year ends (for instance, utility revenues reported from July 2019 to June 2020 would be mapped to the year 2020). For indicators reported in dollar values, local currency utility data is converted at the average exchange rate for that financial year for income statement and cash flow statement values, and at the prevailing exchange rate at the end of the financial year for balance sheet values.

Global Electrification Platform (GEP)

By ESMAP and the World Bank

The Global Electrification Platform (GEP) is an open-access, open-resource, online platform that explores options for achieving universal electrification for the countries with greatest electrification deficits globally. The Global Electrification Platform (GEP) is an open-access, open-resource, online platform that explores options for achieving universal electrification for the countries with greatest electrification deficits globally.

Rooftop Solar Tool

By NEO and the World Bank

The rooftopsolar.energydata.info tool has developed a platform to showcase PV generation potential for each individual building rooftop in a given area, based on high resolution stereo satellite images using latest artificial intelligence techniques. Users can zoom in on rooftops or type in addresses to find a building(s) of interest.

The tool currently displays results from ESMAP's 34 partner cities across 15 countries and will be adding results from every other city/area where similar analysis is being requested by World Bank regional task teams. Metrics such as suitable rooftop area for installation (m2), installable capacity (kW) and yearly potential (MWh) have been derived at individual building structure level and summed up to obtain the total potential for each city. The results can also be further aggregated for different building sectors (commercial, industrial, public, and residential)"

Renewable Energy Zoning Tool

By Devseed and the World Bank

The Renewable Energy Zoning (REZoning) tool is an interactive, web-based platform designed to identify, visualize, and rank zones that are most suitable for the development of solar, wind, or offshore wind projects. Custom spatial filters and economic parameters can be applied to meet users needs or to represent a specific country context. Inspired by and based off Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's and the University of California Santa Barbara's (UCSB) platform Multi-criteria Analysis for Planning Renewable Energy (MapRE) and developed by ESMAP in partnership with UCSB, the tool brings together spatial analysis and economic calculations into an online, user-friendly environment that allows users and decision makers to obtain insights into the technical and economic potential of renewable energy resources for all countries.

Access to Modern Energy Cooking Services: Players and Initiatives database

By ESMAP and the World Bank

The Access to Modern Energy Cooking Services: Players and Initiatives Database is part of the knowledge products under the 2020 State of Access to Modern Energy Cooking Services report, developed by the World Bank’s Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), in close collaboration with Loughborough University on Modern Energy Cooking Services Program (funded by UK Aid of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), and the Clean Cooking Alliance. This qualitative database takes stock of cooking players across the globe, as well as cooking initiatives taking place at a national, regional, and global level.

SOLAR PV FORECASTING TOOL

By ESMAP and the World Bank

The Solar PV Forecasting Tool is an open, web-based application which provides short term solar PV power forecasts based on recent weather forecasts. The tool has been developed to help different players related to the power grid management, such as Transmission System Operators, Distribution System Operators, and Solar Power Producers, to improve their decision making processes by having better information when managing solar PV power. One of its principal objectives is to help enable a greater proportion of the grid to be supplied by solar energy, however the tool is not only useful for private or public organisations. It can also benefit individuals by obtaining information that help them to know the availability of energy for the upcoming hours and days.

Clean Cooking Planning Tool

By Derilinx and the World Bank

The CCPT is designed to help energy planners, decision makers, program developers, and researchers visualize potential transition pathways to universal access to MECS and ICS by 2030. Once a country or region is selected, users can view (i) the state of access to cooking energy services for the 2020 baseline, (ii) the 2030 business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, (iii) the cost of inaction, (iv) the current policy/regulatory environment, (v) the estimated investment cost required based on the user’s selected transition pathway, and (vi) the benefits of transition resulting from improved access to MECS and ICS.

This tool provides an opportunity to explore various transition pathways with default and user-defined fuel-mix percentages and access targets to obtain the estimated investment cost disaggregated by segments (e.g., MECS and ICS; urban and rural; or public, private, and household). It considers stacking of cookstoves and fuels as part of the MTF approach. Advanced, follow-on versions of the tool incorporating location-specific, demand-and-supply data may be developed to enable more comprehensive and geographically targeted energy planning.

Solar PV + Storage

By ESMAP and the World Bank

The World Bank is supporting the sustainable scale up of investments in battery storage in developing countries and it also is convening an international partnership, the Energy Storage Partnership (ESP), to adapt and develop new energy storage solutions to the needs of developing countries. This tool has been made available with funding support from the Korean Green Growth Trust Fund (KGGTF) and technical support from the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) through the World Bank in context of the Energy Storage Partnership (ESP).

Optimally sizing the energy and power components of battery energy storage systems (BESS) is crucial to maximize the benefits of hybrid solar plus storage plants. Battery sizing is a complex multi-dimensional problem that requires key performance factors such as the energy and power requirements, the intended application (operating regime), cost of the different components, among others. Defining the energy application intended to be supported is an essential part of sizing the energy storage system as it determines the number of hours of storage needed. This tool covers two applications:

Solar PV energy output smoothing: the BESS is used to flatten the fluctuation of solar power output over a period of time, thus facilitating its integration in the grids. As such, the hybrid solar plus storage system can provide steady power output over a desired time window, usually a period of minutes to hours. Solar output smoothing is equivalent to providing reserves only to address the variability and uncertainty of the solar PV plant, providing the necessary time for other generating units to respond. This application involves dimensioning the battery for a given solar PV plant.

Solar PV energy output shifting to meet a given demand profile: the BESS is charged during RE generation hours and discharged to meet the profile defined by the user. Solar energy shifting guarantees a given output profile during a certain time duration, thus increasing the availability of round-the-clock power. This application involves dimensioning the solar PV and battery systems.

Global Wind Atlas

By TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK and the World Bank

The Global Wind Atlas is a free, web-based application developed to help policymakers, planners, and investors identify high-wind areas for wind power generation virtually anywhere in the world, and then perform preliminary calculations. The Global Wind Atlas facilitates online queries and provides freely downloadable datasets based on the latest input data and modeling methodologies. Users can additionally download high-resolution maps of the wind resource potential, for use in GIS tools, at the global, country, and first-administrative unit (State/Province/Etc.) level

The current version of the Global Wind Atlas (GWA 3.3) is the product of a partnership between the Department of Wind Energy at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Wind Energy) and the World Bank Group (consisting of The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, or IFC). Work on GWA 2.0 and GWA 3.0 was primarily funded by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), a multi-donor trust fund administered by The World Bank and supported by 13 official bilateral donors. It is part of the global ESMAP initiative on Renewable Energy Resource Mapping that includes biomass, small hydropower, solar energy, and wind energy. GWA 3.0 builds on an ongoing commitment from DTU Wind Energy to disseminate data and science on wind resources to the international community.

Global Solar Atlas

By WORLD BANK

The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, collectively The World Bank Group, have provided this Global Solar Atlas in addition to a series of global, regional and country GIS data layers and poster maps, to support the scale-up of solar power in our client countries. This work is funded by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), a multi-donor trust fund administered by The World Bank and supported by 13 official bilateral donors. It is part of a global ESMAP initiative on Renewable Energy Resource Mapping that includes biomass, small hydro, solar and wind.

The primary aim of this Global Solar Atlas is to provide quick and easy access to solar resource and photovoltaic power potential data globally, at a click of a mouse. GIS layers and poster maps showing global, regional, and country resource potential can be found in the Download section. Further description of the data provided, the methodology for estimating solar resource potential, and guidance on how to use it, can be found in the Knowledge Base section.

Ground imagery from satellite and city maps helps identify potential areas of interest. Main roads, railways, and transmission line networks help define the accessibility and feasibility of sites for the location of power plants. Different map layers can be selected: photovoltaic electricity output (PVOUT), global horizontal irradiation (GHI), direct normal irradiation (DNI), diffuse horizontal irradiation (DIF), global tilted irradiation for fixed systems at optimum angle (GTI), optimum angle of PV modules (OPTA), temperature (TEMP), elevation (TERRAIN), satellite view (SATELLITE) and information on roads and streets (NORMAL). The World Bank Group is exploring opportunities to improve and disseminate data on power transmission lines.

Solar resource availability determines how much electricity will be generated and in what time. Analysis of the averaged solar radiation components for specific locations helps with planning and pre-evaluation of opportunities for solar energy projects. Data provided by Solargis represent a modeling approach, based on the use of modern and verified solar algorithms. The model offers long and continuous history and systematic update of primary solar resource parameters (GHI, DNI) as well as all derived parameters and data products needed by solar energy industry (GTI, PVOUT).

Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE)

By WORLD BANK

RISE is a set of indicators to help compare national policy and regulatory frameworks for sustainable energy. It assesses countries’ policy and regulatory support for each of the four pillars of sustainable energy—access to electricity, access to clean cooking (for 54 access-deficit countries), energy efficiency, and renewable energy. Policies and regulations matter when countries are seeking to attract investment in sustainable energy. There may be many factors that investors consider when evaluating clean energy investments, for example the existence of good practices but also the quality of the policy and the real enforcement. Therefore, it is relevant to assess the existence of policy and regulation to understand the investment environment in sustainable energy. With over 30 indicators covering 140 countries and representing over 98 percent of the world population, RISE provides a reference point to help policymakers benchmark their sector policy and regulatory framework against those of regional and global peers, and a powerful tool to help develop policies and regulations that advance sustainable energy goals.

Each indicator targets an element of the policy or regulatory regime important to mobilizing investment, such as establishing planning processes and institutions, introducing dedicated incentives or support programs, and ensuring financially sound utilities.

RISE classifies countries into a green zone of strong performers in the top third of the 0-100 score range, a yellow zone of middle third performers, and a red zone of weaker performers in the bottom third.

Global Tracking Framework

By WORLD BANK

Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report provides the international community with a global dashboard to register progress on the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7): ensuring universal energy access, doubling progress on energy efficiency and substantially increasing the share of renewable energy. It also registers progress towards enhanced international cooperation to facilitate access to clean and renewable energy by 2030, as well as on the expansion of infrastructure and technology upgrade for supplying modern and sustainable energy services for all in developing countries. It assesses the progress made by each country on these targets and provides a snapshot of how far we are from achieving SDG7. The 2023 release is the ninth edition of this report, which was formerly known as the Global Tracking Framework (GTF).