In 2004, the Government of India set the target of installing an additional 100,000 megawatts (MW) of generation capacity to provide electricity access to all households by 2012. Without improving the national transmission grid, transmission bottlenecks could worsen with increased generation capacity.
In 2009, Indonesia’s vertically integrated, state electricity company, Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) had an ambitious plan to invest about $1.2 billion in the electricity distribution sector during 2010−2014 to reduce distribution losses and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. PLN intended a large part of this plan to be financed by loans from bilateral and multilateral partners.
Despite remarkable progress during the previous decade, only about a third of Bangladesh’s households had access to electricity in 2005. The country had been suffering from unreliable power supply because of insufficient generation capacity, an inadequate transmission grid, and unbalanced distribution facilities.
In 2010, Bangladesh’s electrification rate was low, and blackouts were frequent. Several initiatives were taken to add generating capacity: the government allowed the installation of rental power plants of 40–115-megawatt (MW) capacity, refurbished old gas turbines, and converted open-cycle gas turbine plants to more efficient combined-cycle power plants.
After 22 years of conflict and insurgency, aggravated by critical deficits in power infrastructure investment and maintenance, Afghanistan had one of the lowest electrification rates in the world. In 2003, less than 5% of the country’s population had access to grid power, and per capita annual energy consumption stood at 120 kilowatt-hour (kWh).
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