The workshop in Arusha explored the East African/Tanzanian environment for village energy, local case studies, challenges and opportunities, with a view to formulating policy recommendations for policymakers, funders, NGOs and other stakeholders the region. An important part of the workshop, and indeed the whole Smart Villages initiative work programme, was to gather evidence from existing projects that have provided or facilitated sustainable off-grid energy solutions in the developing world.The workshop gathered more than 50 experts, including policymakers, NGOs, off-grid energy entrepreneurs and others to look for solutions to providing energy to villages off the grid.

1. Appropriate technologies and delivery models to
upscale the use of clean lighting & cooking for
household sector in Africa

2. 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 *

3. 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

4. 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

5. TERI Technologies
• Royalty free technology transfer
• No financial fees/ stake in profit
• Collaboration to customize
• Pledge to Quality Control

6. Bundling of technologies

7. 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

8. LaBL Global Presence
Sierra Leone
Liberia
Nigeria
Uganda
Ethiopia
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique
Malawi
India
Pakistan
Myanmar
Cambodia
Indonesia
Existing
Planned

9. 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)

10. Approach ….
DFID-TERI
Solar
Lighting
&
Cooking
Networking
&
Implement-
ation
Government and
inter-governmental
agencies
Bilateral and
multilateral agencies
Private Agencies/
INGO/NGOs

11. 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

12. 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

13. Establishment of National key focal
points/PMU
Kenya
Ethiopia

14. Capacity building
Technical Training provided for the replacement of batteries in Ikisaya,
Kenya

15. 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

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

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

18. Business model for stove
dissemination in Kenya

19. Business model for stove
dissemination in Kenya

20. Business model for stove
dissemination in Kenya

21. Business model for stove
dissemination in Kenya

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. Thank You!