paolo biella, acra ccs
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Workshop: «Renewable Energy and Innovation towardsSustainable Energy for All»
Community involvement in rural electrification: the practitioner perspective
Paolo Biella, Corporate Relations Manager – ACRA-CCS
ARE: Who we are, what we do
• International business association representing the decentralized energy sectorworking towards the integration on renewables into rural electrification markets in developing and emerging countries
• Enabling improved energy access through business development support for more than 90 members along the whole value chain off-grid technologies by targetedadvocacy and facilitating access to international and regional funding
• Global platform for sharing knowledge and best practices to provide for rapidimplementation of available and advances RE technologies and services
MAWENGI – 2006 / 2014HYDROPOWER PLANT
300KW builtISOLATED, OFF-GRID
MANAGED BY LUMAMA9 VILLAGES
1.400 CONNECTIONS10k out of 20k PEOPLE
conntected
LUGARAWA– 2014 -HYDROPOWER PLANT
1.7 MW to be constructedWILL BE MANAGED BY
CO LTDWILL BE CONNECTED TO
NATIONAL GRID20 VILLAGES
4.000 CONNECTIONS51.000 PEOPLE
ACRA experience
Projects co-funded by
ACRA approach: energy focus, sustainablesolutions through participatory process
Assessment and consultaton with communities and stakeholders
Convergence between communities, district and village authorities, NGOs, private sector, research academy
Strong focus on human and social capital developmentby setting community based social enterprises
Barriers
Assessment and consultaton with community and stakeholders
Convergence between communities, district and village authorities, NGOs, private sector, academy
Strong focus on human and social capital developmentby setting community based social enterprises
Feasibility studies, enviromental impact assessments and bureaucraticprocedures affect more heavily small clean energy mini grid projects
than bigger investments
Lowering connection costs to enable people to get access in ruralmarginalized areas to increase the outreach
Isolated mini-grid can be profitable though much depends on the community’s electricity use
Drivers
Unlock economic opportunities through SME and Households savings
Drivers
Improving quality of life
Drivers
Perceived benefits across community in health and education
Drivers
Ownership
Community involvement models
• Full ownership of the power plant through a community-based social enterprise: consumers are members (Mawengi –LUMAMA example)
• Consumers’ association as majority or minority shareholder together with other public/non profit/private stakeholders (Lugarawa example)
• Split ownership between Production and Distribution (to be tested): Production entails big investments and sometimes sophisticated
technologies: more appropriate for private investors Communities could participate to the ownership of Distribution
networks, easier to manage
Get in touch with us on [email protected] and www.ruralelec.org !
• Events:• 18-20 June: Vienna Energy Forum, Vienna (AT)• 25-26 Sep: Phaesun Off-Grid Experts Workshop, Memmingen (DE)• 4-7 Oct: SAIREC 2015, Cape Town (SA)
• ARE is part of the SE4All HIO Clean Energy Mini-grids: check out the overviewof public, philanthropic and commercial sources of funding, technical and other support available for the implementation of clean energy mini-grids on http://www.se4all.org/hio/clean-energy-mini-grids/
Alliance for Rural ElectrificationRue d’Arlon 69-71
1040 Brussels, [email protected]
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