Energy Sector Management Assistance Program(ESMAP) The World Bank's Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) recently launched the Variable Renewable Energy Grid Integration Program. The objective of this program is to support countries to integrate solar and wind into electricity grids while maintaining reliability, affordability and adequacy of supply.  The program will provide capacity building related to long-term power systems planning, market design, renewable energy support schemes, rules of access for renewable energy to the grid, and strengthening dispatch and transmission systems. The program will work in 10 Pacific Island countries - Fiji, Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. The total value of this investment is $1.5 million to be expensed during the 2015-16 financial year.