Collaborating organisations

Energy+ has furthermore collaborated with several organisations on developing approaches and tools to leverage commercial investments. 

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Around the world, developing countries are seeking to scale up investment in renewable energy. When funding this transition, the key challenge is to address investor risks, which affect the financing costs and competitiveness of renewable energy projects in developing countries. The need to address these risks has inspired development of a wide variety of public instruments. Designing packages of public instruments to effectively and efficiently catalyse investments is a challenge for policymakers.  

To this end, UNDP has recently issued a report, Derisking Renewable Energy Investment, with an accompanying financial tool that introduces an innovative framework to assist policymakers in making a quantitative comparison of different public instruments and their cost-effectiveness.

World Economic Forum (WEF)

In response to requests from leaders from business, government and international organisations, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has been developing a cross-industry framework  that can help the energy access “ecosystem” to flourish through off-grid solutions.  

While referring to all market segments (on-grid, off-grid) and respective technological solutions (cookstoves, lighting, electricity), the report focuses particularly on rural, off-grid solutions that are able to provide high levels of electricity to anchor clients, local communities and community infrastructure.

Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)

A new ESMAP report identifies when results-based financing (RBF) might be an appropriate energy sector intervention in developing countries, especially in order to promote increased energy access and improved energy efficiency. The fundamental idea of RBF is that payments that would otherwise be made automatically are instead made contingent on delivery of a pre-agreed set of results, with the achievement of these results being subject to independent verification. The report is part of a broader ESMAP initiative that examines the potential for using results-based approaches to a greater extent in the energy sector.

OECD

The OECD has produced the document Policy Guidance for Investment in Clean Energy Infrastructure, a tool to help governments identify ways of mobilising private investment in clean energy infrastructure by improving their frameworks in areas such as investment policy, investment promotion and facilitation, and competition policy. This policy guidance document focuses on developing countries and emerging economies. The document is now recognised in the G20 context and it can help governments improve their framework conditions for clean energy investment.