Saskaņā ar Pasaules Bankas paziņojumu, atjaunojamās enerģijas tehnoloģijas ir straujāk augošās energotehnoloģijas

"Renewable energy is the fastest growing energy technology in the world and has a major role to play in reducing poverty while protecting the environment, according to the World Bank.
In its report Improving Lives: World Bank Progress on Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Fiscal Year 2006, released January 23, the bank said its annual commitments for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects totaled $668 million -- nearly double the 2005 level.
The funding, supporting 34 projects in 61 developing countries, is "an environmentally sustainable way to address the problem of one and a half billion people in the world who do not have access to modern energy," said Anil Cabraal, the bank’s lead energy specialist, in a press release.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) also is working to expand access to modern energy services in both rural and urban areas in the developing world by helping governments establish legal and regulatory regimes attractive to private investors while safeguarding citizens' interests, and through multilateral partnerships, the agency said.
With three-fourths of people who live in sub-Saharan Africa and nearly 60 percent of people in South Asia lacking access to electricity, there is a "global crisis in energy," World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said in a November 2006 speech in Australia.
"Energy deprivation on that scale is a serious obstacle to development," Wolfowitz said.
EXPANDING ENERGY PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Because demand for energy in the developing world is predicted to further expand in coming decades, more advancements, investments and policies facilitating biofuel technology are needed, according to a report from the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
IFPRI said energy generation should be centralized using local sources of farm wastes and more effectively collecting, transporting and storing energy from those wastes.
According to the World Bank report, energy security can be enhanced in many countries through a better diversity of fuel sources, improvements in energy distribution infrastructures, increased supply and demand for more efficient fuels, and promotion of equitable energy distribution.
Where people do have access to energy, even small advancements such as the installation of more efficient windows and light bulbs can save energy and lower costs, the report said.
Access to reliable and affordable energy "is considered a prime contributor" to the delivery of education and health services and the generation of employment, according to the report.
Affordable energy access also is "crucial" for combating hunger and malnutrition: 95 percent of the world's staple foods need to be cooked to be digested, the report said.
The bank said it intends to continue to expand its support for alternative energy and development of energy efficiency in the fastest-growing and largest energy-consuming developing countries in Africa and Asia. It has developed a Clean Energy and Investment Framework to address simultaneously the challenge of energy access in developing countries and spur investments in clean technology.
The bank said that because of the high costs required to extend conventional electricity grids, it is devoting more financing for such projects as solar home-lighting systems, small hydropower systems, and wind power and biomass energy production using wood and animal and crop residues.
It said a project in Bangladesh in which solar power systems were installed in 90,000 homes "is considered the world's most successful solar power initiative."
Another example of bank support for renewable energy is a forest management project in Senegal that is able annually to produce tons of wood for fuel on a sustainable basis for urban household use. The project generates local income while reducing deforestation caused by unmanaged wood gathering.
Other examples are solar-powered public space lighting in Bolivia, which has resulted in safer streets for women and children, and improved district heating systems in Serbia, giving children warmer classrooms, according to its report."