World Bank steps up green energy lending in 2014

Renewable energy has seen a resurgence at the World Bank.

A recent report on the bank’s energy lending shows funding for renewable sources of energy reached $3.5 billion in fiscal year 2014 — 38 percent of total lending for power generation and up nearly 126 percent from renewable energy lending in fiscal 2013.

Total funding to hydropower generation alone increased more than twofold: from 677 million in fiscal 2013 lending for hydropower rose to $2.3 billion this year.

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