This document summarizes a presentation given on Networking Experts, a platform for knowledge sharing between researchers, private consultants, multilateral agencies, academics, and officials working in areas like energy integration, hydrocarbons, renewable energies, climate change, and rural electrification in Latin America. It discusses some of the work Networking Experts has facilitated in 2015 related to gender and energy, energy strategies and interconnections, competitiveness and infrastructure. It also highlights comments made in Networking Experts discussions about experiences with rural electrification projects using solar energy in South America and the importance of productive energy use models and appropriate regulation for sustainability. The document concludes by posing discussion questions about promoting private investment, ensuring long-term funding, and encouraging

1. Networking Experts Knowledge
Platform
Marcela Reinoso
Forum: Sources of sustainable energy for off-grid
rural electrification in South America: challenges
and perspectives
January 25, 2016
Lima - Peru

2. Agenda
1. What is Networking Experts
2. Who can participate in Networking Experts
3. Thematic networks
4. 2015 through our tools
5. Experiences in rural electrification
6. Challenges

3. Space for
dialogue
and
exchange
Researchers
Private
consultants
Multilateral
agencies
Academics
Officials

4. 2015: LAC works for the sustainability of its energy
sector
Gender and
Energy
• Mainstreaming
• Training
• Research
Energy Integration
• Cooperation
• Strategies
• Interconnections
Hydrocarbons
• Competitiveness
• Reservations
• NG Infrastructure
Renewable Energies
• Penetration
• Infrastructure
• Technology
Climate Change
• A & M strategies
• Financing
• Reports
Electricity
• Supply
• Infrastructure
Energy and
Access
• Rural Electrification
• Sustainability

5. Latin America requires more than lighting homes (...) it requires looking at the
productive use of energy.
•Rafael Escobar, Soluciones Prácticas
Solar villages in the Argentine puna are pioneers in the full use of clean
technologies.
•Silvia Rojo, EcoAndina
New technologies can accelerate the goals of universal access in Bolivia and LAC
(3rd generation PV).
•Miguel Fernández, Energética
Appropriate regulation will definitely contribute to sustainability in electrification
in isolated rural communities.
•Jessica Olivares, Acciona Microenergía Perú
3rd generation PV: savings per family USD 150 per year, where the average
monthly income is USD 100 per home.
•Enrique Toledo, Acciona Microenergía México
Networking Experts: An efficient platform for
the transmission of knowledge

6. The most developed market for photovoltaic solar energy is the one involving projects
in isolated areas
• Mauricio Solano, Trama Tecno Ambiental
In remote areas productive use is the key for the residential electrification - but a
business model and an entrepreneur / plant operator with an entrepreneurial spirit
are required.
• Karl Kolmsee, Smart Hydro Power
Prior to promoting the diffusion and dissemination of generation distributed in Latin
American countries, a legal framework that enables it is required...
• Raquel Salazar, Batalla Abogados
Access to basic energy services
16 sessions 1/02/2016-16/05/2016
• EnDev / Networking Experts - Olade
Networking Experts: An efficient platform for
the transmission of knowledge

7. Discussions enhance knowledge, our challenge
is to encourage them
What can be the most efficient mechanisms to promote
private investment in electrification projects in isolated areas?
If rural electrification is the exclusive responsibility of the
State, how can the availability of economic resources for the
initial investments and the sustainability of this type of long-
term project be ensured?
How can good governance among the actors involved in rural
electrification projects be encouraged?

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