Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 5/2020

Energy

Tense relationship: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi King Salman in Riyadh in October 2019.
Tumbling oil price

End of an era

The news went from bad to worse for OPEC in April

Companies

Oil majors feel the shock

Multinational oil companies are under pressure

Iraq’s economy depends on oil.
Oil markets

How the mighty have fallen

Oil producers are not able to send shock waves through the global economy anymore

More Articles

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

Investing in better networks

This is where KfW invests in new storage facilities and networks for renewable energy

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

The global transition towards renewable energy can only succeed if the necessary networks and storage capacities are available

Workers unload coal from a ship in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka.
Fossil fuel

Bangladesh’s coal boom

International financial institutions are funding coal power in Bangladesh

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

China’s energy policy is full of contradictions

Selling smuggled petrol on the roadside.
Fuel prices

Strained relations

Petrol smuggling has had a negative impact on Benin’s relations with its giant neighbour Nigeria

Solar panel in a village in Jharkand state.
Green power

Behind schedule

At current trends, India will not achieve important climate goals

Powerful Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant in Ouarzazate, Morocco.
Our view

The opportunity of crisis

Covid-19 has dramatically reduced energy consumption around the world, providing an opportunity for a rethink

Marketing charcoal in rural Uganda.
Infrastructure

Destructive biomass demand

Many Ugandans still rely on traditional biomass for energy purposes

Shop owners and other businesses suffer unreliable power supply.
Power shortages

When the lights go out

Power cuts hit Zambia’s economy hard

Hydroelectric power station on Lake Tanganyika in Zambia.
Energy policy

Water over the dam

Zambia’s dependence on hydropower is becoming increasingly problematic