Appropriate technologies and delivery models to upscale the use of clean lighting & cooking for

household sector in Africa

About TERI

• A not-for-profit research & development and policy think tank; • Established in 1974 in New Delhi; • More than 1000 professionals, with centers spread across 5 cities

in India; Overseas presence in London, Washington DC, Tokyo, Dubai and Addis Ababa

Working Areas • Energy & Power • Regulatory practices • Habitats and transport • Environment • Water and NRM • Climate policy • Bio technology • Social Transformation

Addis Ababa *

Lack of access to clean energy

Source: World Energy Outlook 2012

Number of people lacking access to

electricity

Number of people relying on traditional use of biomass

for cooking Africa 587 657

Sub-Saharan Africa 585 653

Developing Asia 675 1937

China 8 423

India 291 855

Other Asia 378 659

Latin America 31 85

Developing Countries* 1314 2679

World 1317 2679

TERI’s Work on Energy Access

• Basic needs

• Clean Lighting – solar charging stations & solar micro grids

• Clean Cooking – Improved turbo cookstoves

• Productive uses

• biomass gasifiers & energy efficiency in MSMEs

• Modern society needs

• Green buildings

TERI Technologies

• Royalty free technology transfer

• No financial fees/ stake in profit

• Collaboration to customize

• Pledge to Quality Control

Bundling of technologies

Lighting a Billion Lives initiative facilitates setting up of energy enterprises, which offer clean lighting solutions to energy poor villages

•Provides reliable and clean illumination

•Replaces the use of polluting kerosene as a lighting fuel

•Catalyzes rural solar market

•Equips local human resources with technical and managerial skills

Lighting a Billion Lives

LaBL Global Presence

Sierra Leone

Liberia

Nigeria

Uganda

Ethiopia

Kenya

Tanzania

Mozambique

Malawi

India

Pakistan

Myanmar

Cambodia

Indonesia

Existing

Planned

DFID-TERI Clean Energy Access Project

Objectives

• Scaling up of programmes to provide clean cooking energy access and solar lighting to poor households

Activities

• Piloting scalable models, through private sector-led business models, for provision of

– Clean cooking devices

– Clean lighting solutions

• Reach 20,000 households in 4 years (2011-15)

Approach ….

DFID-TERI

Solar Lighting

& Cooking

Networking &

Implement-ation

Government and inter-governmental

agencies

Bilateral and multilateral agencies

Private Agencies/ INGO/NGOs

Implementation Model

ICS

National Network

National Focal Point

(Kenya + Ethiopia)

R&D partner Lamp Assembly/

Cookstove fabrication

Marketing / Dissemination

Partner

Energy Shops/ Micro franchisee

Users

Testing , field trial customization,

To work with TERI’s Solar Lighting Lab, U of Nairobi, Addis

Ababa U etc.

Assemble lighting, cooking solutions

Local solutions provider in host countries and

TERI’s existing TPs

Market lighting/ cooking solutions through existing/ new business models e.g. MFIs, retailer, NGOs, etc.

Responsive repair services, sales To be developed as part of project

Coordination, training, monitoring, documentation networking, policy advocacy

Work Packages (Cooking + Lighting)

• WP1: Stakeholder networking & Outreach;

• WP2: Multi-stakeholder training & capacity building;

• WP3: Implementation of solar lighting & cooking solutions; and

• WP4: Policy engagement

Sub-divided into 10 Activities and 36 sub activities/tasks

Establishment of National key focal points/PMU

Kenya

Ethiopia

Capacity building

Technical Training provided for the replacement of batteries in Ikisaya, Kenya

Capacity building

SCS & CCU installation, repair and maintenance training at Kisumu in Kenya

• Operations of solar charging stations

• Fault identification and rectification methods

• Periodic maintenance of SCS

• Do & Don’ts in the SCS

On-the-job training in Kenya and Ethiopia on the development of low-cost forced draft cook stoves

Capacity building

Training on installation, repair and maintenance of Charge Controller Unit (CCU) for the IDES in Kenya and Ethiopia

Capacity building

Business model for stove dissemination in Kenya

Business model for stove dissemination in Kenya

Business model for stove dissemination in Kenya

Business model for stove dissemination in Kenya

Achievements

Indicators Cumulative

Achievement stoves

Cumulative Achievement

lights Number of households /lives impacted 3500 2800

Number of new models (business/technology/networks) contributed to by TERI in Kenya & Ethiopia

5 8

Number of new models (business/technology/networks) contributed to by TERI in countries other than Kenya & Ethiopia

- 2

Number of entrepreneurs invested, trained and established

14 13

Stove and lights monitoring

• Monitoring and verification of stoves in the field has started in Ethiopia and Kenya for the first lot of stoves and lights disseminated

• Both stove performance as well as user feedback is collected for both the products

Challenges in establishing local fabrication

• Non availability, irregular supply/expensive raw materials and lack of skilled personnel

• High cost of battery, electrical and electronic components

• Lack of testing centres

• Very few dealers in the market. They prefer imported products over local fabrication.

• Current focus is institutional and commercial sector

• Imports are also driven by customs duty wavier

Critical Issues – some thoughts

• Different programs promote different lighting products

• Performance benchmarks – the missing link?

– Light output – Is it illuminating one square foot area or room

– Task light vs. ambient light

– Battery capacity / charge density

– Hours of operation – at what light output

– Product price in the context of all the above

• Is everything market driven

Thank You!