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Electrical substation in Anantapur, India. Co-financed by KfW, it supplies electricity for the state of Andhra Pradesh.

KfW financing

Investing in better networks

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by Friederike Bauer
by Achim Neumann
Energy efficiency is the “world’s first fuel”: Energy-efficient residential buildings funded by KfW Development Bank in New Delhi.

Renewables

Networks and storage needed

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by Friederike Bauer
by Achim Neumann
Workers unload coal from a ship in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka.

Fossil fuel

Bangladesh’s coal boom

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by Nora Sausmikat
by Quirin Jetschke
Protest against a coal plant that Kenya wants to build with funding from China in the port city of Lamu.

Fossil fuel industry

China continues to finance coal power around the world

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by Nora Sausmikat
by Quirin Jetschke
Solar panel in a village in Jharkand state.

Green power

Behind schedule

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by Aditi Roy Ghatak
Powerful Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant in Ouarzazate, Morocco.

Our view

The opportunity of crisis

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by Katja Dombrowski
Shop owners and other businesses suffer unreliable power supply.

Power shortages

When the lights go out

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by Derrick Silimina
Hydroelectric power station on Lake Tanganyika in Zambia.

Energy policy

Water over the dam

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by Derrick Silimina
Copper smelting in Zambia: commodity prices have plummeted because of Covid-19.

Blog

Covid-19 as seen by World Bank board member

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by Hans Dembowski
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