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Access and affordability

This section provides data on how many households have gained access to electricity over the years, and how affordable electricity is in selected localities. All analyses have been done on a comparative basis, so that you can select the region and locality of interest.

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Enhancing Energy Efficiency to Increase Affordability

Enhancing energy efficiency to increase affordability: evidence from residential lighting retrofit in Peru

In this paper, we discuss the Peruvian retrofit lighting program that was part of the National Energy Plan 2014-2025. Using data from the Residential Survey on Consumption and Uses of Energy or...

How Do Households Consume Energy

How Do Households Consume Energy?: Evidence from Latin American and Caribbean Countries

How do households consume and spend on energy? What are the drivers of their spending and consumption patterns? How does energy consumption has evolved? What is to be expected as the region climbs the...

Impactos de las mejoras en los servicios eléctricos: El caso en Ecuador

Impactos de las mejoras en los servicios eléctricos: El caso en Ecuador

El Ecuador ha logrado avances notables en la expansión del acceso a servicios eléctricos por red pública, especialmente en las zonas rurales y en segmentos de menores ingresos. Esta nota técnica...

Measuring the Benefits of Energy Access: A Handbook for Development Practitioners

Measuring the Benefits of Energy Access: A Handbook for Development Practitioners

Impact evaluation has gained recognition over the last decade as an essential component of project development. Impact evaluation details how and to what extent policies and project interventions...

Meeting Challenges, Measuring Progress: The Benefits of Sustainable Energy Access in Latin America and the Caribbean

Meeting Challenges, Measuring Progress: The Benefits of Sustainable Energy Access in Latin America and the Caribbean

Energy access is an essential prerequisite for economic, social, and human development. The 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) explicitly recognized affordable and clean energy...

The Other Side of the Boom: Energy Prices and Subsidies in Latin America and the Caribbean during the Super-Cycle

The Other Side of the Boom: Energy Prices and Subsidies in Latin America and the Caribbean during the Super-Cycle

This report quantifies the effect of energy prices and subsidies in Latin America and the Caribbean and finds that discretionary price-setting mechanisms often lead to expensive, inefficient, and...