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Paolo Biella, ACRA CCS
The document summarizes the work of the Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE), an international business association that promotes renewable energy integration for rural electrification. ARE has enabled improved energy access for over 90 member organizations along the off-grid technology value chain through advocacy, business support, and facilitating access to funding. ARE's approach involves assessing community energy needs through consultation, facilitating partnerships between communities, authorities, and private organizations, and establishing community-based social enterprises to develop local capacity and ownership over sustainable energy solutions. Case studies of mini-grid projects in Tanzania highlight models of full community ownership and mixed public-private ownership. Barriers to rural electrification include high connection costs and bureaucratic hurdles for small projects, while economic
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- 1. Workshop: «Renewable Energy andInnovation towards Sustainable Energy for All» Community involvement in rural electrification: the practitioner perspective Paolo Biella, Corporate Relations Manager – ACRA-CCS
- 2. ARE: Who weare, what we do • International business association representing the decentralized energy sector working 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 targeted advocacy and facilitating access to international and regional funding • Global platform for sharing knowledge and best practices to provide for rapid implementation of available and advances RE technologies and services
- 3. MAWENGI – 2006/ 2014 HYDROPOWER PLANT 300KW built ISOLATED, OFF-GRID MANAGED BY LUMAMA 9 VILLAGES 1.400 CONNECTIONS 10k out of 20k PEOPLE conntected LUGARAWA– 2014 - HYDROPOWER PLANT 1.7 MW to be constructed WILL BE MANAGED BY CO LTD WILL BE CONNECTED TO NATIONAL GRID 20 VILLAGES 4.000 CONNECTIONS 51.000 PEOPLE ACRA experience Projects co-funded by
- 4. ACRA approach: energyfocus, sustainable solutions 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 development by setting community based social enterprises
- 5. Barriers Assessment and consultatonwith community and stakeholders Convergence between communities, district and village authorities, NGOs, private sector, academy Strong focus on human and social capital development by setting community based social enterprises Feasibility studies, enviromental impact assessments and bureaucratic procedures affect more heavily small clean energy mini grid projects than bigger investments Lowering connection costs to enable people to get access in rural marginalized areas to increase the outreach Isolated mini-grid can be profitable though much depends on the community’s electricity use
- 6. Drivers Unlock economic opportunitiesthrough SME and Households savings
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- 8. Drivers Perceived benefits across communityin health and education
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- 10. 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
- 11. Get in touchwith us on are@ruralelec.org 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 overview of 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 Electrification Rue d’Arlon 69-71 1040 Brussels, Belgium are@ruralelec.org www.ruralelec.org Follow us online