examples of successful renewable energy programs @ the base of the pyramid
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Examples of Successful Renewable Energy Programs @ the Base of the Pyramid . Name_________________ Peace Corps____________ Date___________________. Craftswoman purchases first solar lantern and panel for her business. Photo: powermundo. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Examples of Successful Renewable Energy Programs @
the Base of the Pyramid
Name_________________
Peace Corps____________
Date___________________
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/