CEII Energy Finance
Follow the money that powers the world.
The Centre tracks, in the open, the development finance at work in energy: who lends, to which countries, for what, and how much. Live from the World Bank, refreshed twice a day.
$64.3 billion
Africa $30.1bn (47%)Rest of the world
World Bank projects feed, approvals to 17 Dec 2024
Four ways in
For governments preparing a project, developers looking for a lender, investors sizing a market and journalists following the money.
Project tracker
Every active World Bank energy project, 346 in all, searchable by country and sorted by size or date.
Energy finance by country
One page for each of the 102 countries with active projects: what is financed, how much, and the access gap it serves.
Who finances energy
20 development banks, finance institutions, climate funds and Nigerian agencies, and what each one finances.
How energy projects are financed
Equity, debt, guarantees, power purchase agreements and blended finance, explained from first principles.
Where the money is at work
Active World Bank commitments to energy, by region and by country. Africa’s two regions together hold 47% of the total.
African regions and countriesElsewhere
Source: World Bank Group, updated 22 Oct 2026. Active World Bank projects whose major sector is Energy and Extractives, plus recent projects the Bank has not yet coded by sector whose names are about energy. The Bank’s public projects API currently lists approvals up to the date shown on the tracker. Amounts are the Bank’s commitments (IBRD, IDA and trust funds it administers); co-financing from governments and other lenders is not included.
Most recent approvals
All 346 projects-
Sustainable Financing for Rogun Hydropower Project
The project development objective is to increase supply of affordable and clean energy for consumers in Tajikistan and Central Asiaregion.
$350 million
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Uzbekistan - Khorezm Solar IPP Project
The development objective is to increase private sector led renewable energy supply in Uzbekistan.
$4 million
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Montenegro Energy Sector Decarbonization Project
$20 million
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Supporting the Transition to a Sustainable Electricity Sector in Argentina
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Third Energy Sector Project
The development objective is to increase the capacity of the transmission line to provide an enabling environment for renewable energy integration in project areas and to improve the institutional capacity of Mongolia's power sector
$52 million
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Additional Financing: Haiti Renewable Energy For All
The Project Development Objective is to scale-up renewable energy investments in Haiti in order to expand and improve access to electricity for households, businesses and community services.
$40 million
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