Publication: Advancing Heating Services Beyond the Last Mile: Central Asia Pilot Experience with High-Efficiency, Low-Emissions Heating Technologies
Date
2019-02-13
ISSN
Published
2019-02-13
Author(s)
World Bank Group
Abstract
In cold-climate regions of developing
countries, access to a reliable and affordable heat supply
is critical to the well-being of the rural and peri-urban
poor, who enjoy only limited access to district heating,
natural gas, and electricity networks. Most of them have
long relied on solid fuel–fired, traditional heating stoves
or simple low-pressure boilers (LPBs), which are
fuel-inefficient, leaky, and highly polluting both indoors
and outside. Having access to high-efficiency, low-emissions
(HELE) heating stoves offers under-served households a
cost-effective, intermediate solution until fuel-switching
to gas or electricity is possible. Recent World Bank–
supported winter heating pilot programs in the Central Asian
countries of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan brought to market a
small number of advanced, solid fuel–fired space heating and
cooking stoves. This technical report aims to document the
Central Asia pilot experience with HELE heating technologies
and their potential use as a cost-effective, intermediate
solution for millions of underserved households for
improving health and reducing household air pollution,
energy poverty, and climate impacts.
Citation
“World Bank Group. 2019. Advancing Heating Services Beyond the Last Mile; Advancing Heating Services Beyond the Last Mile : Central Asia Pilot Experience with High-Efficiency, Low-Emissions Heating Technologies. ESMAP Paper;. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/31282 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”