Examples of Successful Renewable Energy Programs @ the Base of the Pyramid

Examples of Successful Renewable Energy Programs @

the Base of the Pyramid

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Craftswoman purchases first solar lantern and panel for her businessPhoto: powermundo

Module A 1. Challenges: Energy Poverty & Rapid Climate Change

2. Solution: Renewable Energy

Module B 1. Steps to developing a renewable energy project

Module C 1. Examples of Successful Renewable Energy Projects

Agenda

1. Personal Clean Technology

2. Renewable Energy Home System

3. Rural Energy Entrepreneurs

4. Community Power

Case Studies

1. Design, Make and Distribute Personal CleanTech

photos by d.light, stovetec, and powermundoAnd many more….

EcoZoom

1. Examples Personal Clean Tech Distributors

Photos: Feeplay, d.light, Barefoot power, powermundo

Elephant Energy

1. Personal– Improved CookstovesPeace Corps “Stovetec Cookstoves field testing in Senegal”

http://www.pcsenegal.org/index.php?page=apptech/stovetec.html Photo (not in Senegal) From Trees Water People

Peace Corps Volunteer:Tested Efficiencygauge local interest

Results:Cut wood use in ½Less cooking timeLess smoke in home

1. Personal Clean Technology

Cell phone subscriptions to hit 5 billion globally*Photo- http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-10454065-78.html*http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-10454065-78.html

Personal Clean Technology can reach millions like cell phones

S - India, East Africa, Peru, Guatemala T - Multiple options, prices, simpleE - Reach customers via videos, radio, print P - Microfinance Partners M- Inexpensive productsI - Businesses & DistributionF - Low maintenance products

Results- Millions of people have access to clean energy

7 Steps - Systems ApproachSTEPMIF for personal clean technology

2. Home Systems

S - 32% have access to gridT - biogas, stoves, solar home systemE - 15-day technician training courseP - female technicians, allowed to visit homes in daytimeM - MicroloansI - Homes and businessF - Provided sales, components and servicing and loans

Results- 3,000 biogas plants,15,000 improved cook stoves, 115,000 Solar Home System

photo by Grameen Shaktihttp://www.ashdenawards.org/

2. Home Systems

Watch Video- http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,13784,00.html

Photos http://www.blueenergygroup.org/spip.php?rubrique76&lang=en

2. Household– Improve CookstovesPeace Corps Cookstoves from Panama to Ethiopia to Senegal….

https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=donate.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=686-148

S - 3.5% forest coverage left in Panama province T - CookstovesP - Regional Environmental GovernmentM - Household contributes materials/laborI - Household and Community Projects

Results: Reduce Deforestation Rates

“Hillary Clinton will visit a Clean Cookstove demonstration at the Peace Corps Ethiopia headquarters”- June 13, 2011

3. Rural Energy Entrepreneur

photos by Nuru Light

Renewable Energy Business Opportunities

photos by Elephant Energy

Activity: A solar entrepreneur

3. Solar Charged Battery Business

S - Isolated community T - Solar charging stationE - Site to teach community about solarP - Zara solar dealersM - Loan from I - BusinessF - Revenues provide funds

Results: Greater income, savings for the community, introduce solar

http://www.gvepinternational.org/en/business/news/turning-energy-challenges-business-opportunities-rural-tanzaniaphotos by NREL, not in Tanzania

4. Community Power – Micro Hydro

47 micro-hydro schemes, with average electrical power 33 kW,to provide metered electricity to about 5,000 families.

http://practicalaction.org/micro_hydro_expertise

“We have good schools, a good health centre with a dentist and laboratory. And a church is being built.

http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/practicalaction

S - Water, mountains, community interestT - Micro-hydroE - ‘everyone in the village an engineer.’P - IBDM - Loan and 40% down from community I - Micro-utility businessF - Technicians to maintain system

4. Community Power – Solar SchoolPeace Corps “Renewing Minds at Solar Library in Burkino Faso”

https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=donate.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=686-148

S - 25 km from nearest powerlineT - SolarE - School as a education focal pointP - Parent AssociationM - Peace Corps fund raising I - Community Building ProjectF - Legal obligation for costs

Results: Students able to study at night

Matching Needs with Project Solutions Activity

Match the need with the right type of tool, project, technology

Technology not always the right answerphotos by PowerMundo and NREL

Additional Slides

4. Community Power

Husk Power Systems Wants to Lead "a Revolution in Electricity“Fast Company Wed Jan 5, 2011

Photo-Flicker- Acumen Fund

“HPS as a system, as opposed to just a power, product, or services company”

S - 56% No electricity, rice wasteT - Waste to energy-BiomassE - Train techniciansP - “reliable people on the ground”M - 0.75$/watt I - Micro-utility businessF - Technicians to maintain system

Results - electricity for 60 communities &150,000 people, employed and trained > 300 local people, saved a total $1.25M

http://www.greenpeace.org/india/Global/india/report/Empowering%20Bihar.pdfhttp://www.acumenfund.org/investment/husk-power-systems.htmlhttp://www.huskpowersystems.com/

2. Home Systems

photo by Selco

1995 to 2005 170 employees 25 services centers, 48,000 solar home systemsP & M - Microfinance partnersF - Service Centers

TECNOSOL, Nicaragua 40,000 SHS systems E- local branches, radio programs, posters on buses, billboards and the network of existing customersP & M-links customers with local micro-finance institutions

http://www.ashdenawards.org/