Publication: ICT Solutions for Energy Efficiency
Date
2012
ISSN
Published
2012
Author(s)
Youngman, Richard
Abstract
The report is focused on showing a wide
range and variety of ways in which Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) solutions could play a
transformative role, and so the bulk of the report provides
case studies of actual examples of ICT solutions already
developed and in action to enable energy efficiency in three
particular areas, namely, smart logistics, smart grid/smart
metering, and smart buildings. Ultimately, in line with the
WBG's charter, this study is concerned with the
question of how ICT can play a transformative role in
developing countries'climate-smart future. However, as
the World Development Report 2010 recognized, this is bound
to start in higher-income countries, which have the
incentives (being high-energy and high-cost users), the
technical know-how and the resources to innovate and
implement pioneering solutions to cut their costs and their
carbon emissions. Some such solutions will have
applicability to the developing world; a minority right
away, more year by year as technology is proven and
efficiencies of scale kick in. The report concludes with
some thoughts, drawn out of these case studies, on the
trajectory of ICT in energy efficiency in the world
generally, but especially within the focus areas of
logistics, the grid and buildings, and on what these case
studies might mean for developing countries and their
priorities in terms of energy efficiency.
Citation
“Youngman, Richard. 2012. ICT Solutions for Energy Efficiency. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/e8786556-c05a-5f70-afb2-152369923269 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”