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THE SMART VILLAGES INITIATIVE:
INITIAL FINDINGS
9 July 2016
Dr Bernie Jones
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SUMMARY OF FINDINGS TO DATE
■Cross-cutting issues
■Home-based supply
■Mini-grids
■Cooking/heating
■Sustainable development Goals
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22 WORKSHOPS HELD TO DATE: OVER 700 PARTICIPANTS
East Africa
First East Africa regional workshop: Arusha, Tanzania,
June 2014
East Africa media dialogue workshop: Kigali, Rwanda,
November 2014
East Africa Community Leaders’ dialogue workshop:
Terrat, Tanzania, August 2015
Concluding high-level workshop for East Africa
engagement: Kigali, Rwanda, September 2015
Southeast Asia
First Southeast Asia regional workshop: Kuching,
Malaysia, January 2015
Southeast Asia media dialogue workshop: Seoul, South
Korea, September 2015
Energy for off-grid islands: Bunaken island, Indonesia,
November 2015
Sustainable dissemination of improved cookstoves:
lessons from Southeast Asia: Yangon, Myanmar,
December 2015
Smart Villages and resilience to natural disasters:
National University of Singapore, May 2016
The energy and water nexus: Burgos, Philippines, June
2016
West Africa
First West Africa Regional workshop: Accra, Ghana, May 2016
South Asia
Smart Villages in Nepal: Kathmandu, Nepal, April 2015
Southeast Asia media dialogue workshop, Seoul, June 2015
Smart Villages in Bangladesh: Dhaka, Bangladesh, August
2015
Smart Villages in Pakistan: Islamabad, October 2015
State level brainstorm: Odisha, India, April 2016
South America
First South America regional workshop: Lima, Peru, January
2016
Sustainable energy for rural communities in Bolivia: La Paz,
Bolivia, April 2016
UK
First Forward Look workshop: New technologies for off-grid
villages – a look ahead: January 2014
Second Forward Look workshop: Potential breakthroughs in
the use of energy in off-grid villages: December 2015
Business and financial models: January 2016
Frontier energy storage technologies: Edinburgh University,
May 2016
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GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
Off-grid solutions superior to grid
extension for some
Off-grid solutions often more expensive
than normal grid tariff
BUT cheaper and more affordable than
existing solutions
Economic returns can be made at energy
and cost levels of off-grid technologies
Need for better awareness and
aspirational value
Focus has been on access rather than
use or “smartness”
Resilience
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CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
1. Improve access to affordable finance: ■ build/share track records of income streams
■ risk mitigation: credit guarantees
■ reduce transaction costs
2. Provide support to entrepreneurs: ■ business incubation & advice services
■ cut red tape / give breathing space
3. Build capacity: ■ technical/business/institutional/finance/ maintenance sector
4. Create awareness
5. Involve women and youth
6. Don’t give things away
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HOME-BASED SUPPLY: SOLAR HOME SYSTEMS AND
PICO-SOLAR LIGHTS
Substantial advances
• PV cost reductions • Increased efficiency
of appliances • Pay-as-you-go
Key factors
3rd Generation systems
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HOME-BASED SUPPLY (2): SUCCESS STORIES
East Africa: business-driven
Further accelerate rollout by:
access to finance
leverage distribution networks
Build skill base
Bangladesh: Government-led
Ownership by group of stakeholders
Subsidised finance
Repay in instalments
Effective technical standards
Technical support
How can these models be adopted and adapted for other countries/regions?
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HOME-BASED SUPPLY (3): LOOKING AHEAD
■ Tackle problem of poor quality and
counterfeit products
■ Needed technical developments: ■ Better batteries
■ Recycling
■ Plug and play
■ Control systems
■ New PV technologies
■ Appliance efficiency
■ DC nano-grids
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MINI-GRIDS
Technical developments reduce
equipment costs
Economies of scale: replication
Anchor loads absorb costs
Reduce set-up overheads
Reduce financing costs
Capital cost subsidy
Get the tariffs right: constraints of
affordability & equality
Stimulate productive enterprise to
increase incomes
Increase load factors: improved control
systems & productive enterprises
Increase level of connections
Operating cost subsidy
More limited progress – costs can be greater than revenues – how can we balance the books?
costs revenues
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MINI-GRIDS (2): COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
■Villagers should be the main drivers
■Build on local knowledge and customs
■Work with trusted individual and
organisations: local champions
■Ensure that the poor have a voice & stake,
not just the powerful
“projects are 70%social / 30% technical”
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COOKING/HEATING: KEY DRIVERS
■Health risks
■Environmental impacts
■Social benefits
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COOKING (2): KEY FINDINGS
1. Address user needs and cultures
2. Financing schemes (& subsidies) to ensure viability of all stages of value chain
3. Enhance product quality
4. Technical and business support
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Ensure access to affordable, reliable,
sustainable and modern energy for all
By 2030:
■ Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable and
modern energy services
■ Increase substantially the share of renewable energy
in the global energy mix
■ Double the rate of improvement in energy efficiency
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
■Goal 7: level of ambition (& metrics)
■Goal 17: strengthen means of implementation:
■Better coordination
■Sharing of information
■University collaborations
■Evaluating development outcomes
■Other goals: integrated approach
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1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation
10. Reduce inequality within and among countries
11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development
15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels
17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
