STC Lighting Global Off-grid Expert
STC Lighting Global Off-grid Expert
- United States of America
Specifically, the Consultant will help World Bank task team with engaging and building capacity of Governments for development of off-grid programs, building their understanding of private sector-driven business model, helping the Government to build consultation and coordination mechanism with the private sector, including local and international industry associations, and sharing best practices across countries. A focus of the consultant will be the development of least market distortive end user subsidies, allowing low-income households to access off-grid solar solutions. This will be done through individual World Bank project engagements, as well as through ESMAP/Lighting Global participation in the End User Subsidy Lab, which brings together various stakeholders seeking to promote the uptake of carefully designed and well-informed end user subsidies
The Consultant will provide key expertise for developing suitable approaches to reach the “last mile” consumers, providing thought leadership on policy and financing innovations for developing appropriate policy and regulatory environments and business and financing models, including sustainable subsidies for electrifying the “last mile” consumers – the poorest, the most remote and those living in fragile/insecure regions, while minimizing potential negative impacts of such targeted interventions on broader, often still nascent, off-grid solar markets.This page belongs to the Job Offers database.