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Providing Reliable and Affordable Electricity in Countries with Energy Deficits: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Providing Reliable and Affordable Electricity in Countries with Energy Deficits: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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approaches in the field that deserve greater attention in energy-deficit regions; (c) engendering more concerted international effort to achieve universal energy access as defined by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Africa has significant raw energy resources both in renewables and fossil fuels (see Figure 2) , yet many African countries still struggle to surmount the energy poverty which affects the lives of hundreds of millions.
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He cited, for example, the African Development Bank's Facility for Energy Inclusion, the Desert-to-Power Project, and schemes by national utilities all seek to accelerate access and generate a pipeline of bankable projects by strengthening collaboration, regulation, financing, risk mitigation, training, technology acquisition, consumer outreach, and market support. Urama then summarized important policy options set forth in Figure 3.
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, and they include the whole landscape of competing products, services, business models, and subsidies. Watson's conclusions highlighted the important role of international technological collaborations for building innovation and economic planning capabilities and for interconnecting regional grids to bring down costs and endow resilience.
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Umang Maheshwari from Smart Power India outlined some of the key financial and technical challenges in deploying mini-grids and lessons learned about local electricity providers' business models. Chief among these was the importance of a reliable and stable service, which promotes trust and willingness to pay and encourages consumers to invest in appliances, increase their demand, and even rely on electricity for powering new income-generating businesses (such as mobile charging, hair dressing, food preservation, internet access, welding, and flour milling)
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Two projects of the World Bank Group -- the China Renewable Energy Development Project and Lighting Global -- have demonstrated the impact of quality standards for products and services, as well as of community engagement and support. The ensuing discussion highlighted the negative effects of import tariffs on electrification projects, particularly when local manufacturing is underdeveloped and cannot meet demand.
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In conclusion Da Silva recommended a recent report that addresses financing national energy access through a bottoms up approach, Poor People's Energy Outlook 2017, http://policy.practicalaction.org/PPEO2017.
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Waddle also highlighted the need for exploring business models where multiple smaller service providers could reduce costs by sharing services, including business systems, and maintenance and operations personnel. Reflecting on lessons from her personal trajectory through basic research, energy access policy, and capacity building, Rose Mutiso of the Mawazo Institute, Kenya, noted that progress on topics of critical importance to Africa is undermined by a weak research base and lack of innovation capabilities.
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Working group members emphasized human and knowledge capacity-building at national and community levels and the need for exploring international collaborations that optimize the value of energy resources while promoting resilience in the energy system. The experiences of agricultural extension services can guide the establishment of networked and inclusive platforms for knowledge sharing and policy development, as well as practical and participatory evaluation and improvement frameworks.
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Working Group 3: What is the best way to develop and implement effective strategies for providing rural villages and communities with energy services that can contribute to improved living standards and reduced poverty? The group echoed many familiar themes in their examination of poverty alleviation, such as coordination and information flow, community needs, and prioritizing the deployment of resources to improve living standards through production, household, or community-oriented uses.
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Other key messages from individual participants during the discussions were the following: amending highlevel UN policy documents to present a more practical understanding of global energy needs; facilitating increased collaboration among government entities, and appropriately allocating authority and responsibilities; standardizing technical and quality-of-service norms for grid and off-grid energy in different geographic regions; standardizing data collection streams, including data needed for monitoring and evaluation, to integrate project costs, risks, and modalities of failure. Also of interest was building trust and collaboration by identifying/resolving misunderstandings between key energy sector stakeholders, while emphasizing that long-term strategies will require multiple solutions.
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, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Anil Cabraal, Energy Forum, Sri Lanka; and Umang Maheshwari, Smart Power India. SPONSORS: This workshop was partially supported by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and by the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center.
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