kuching | jan-15 | smart villages introduction
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JANUARY 2015
■ More than 1 billion people without access to electricity
■ 3 billion people still cooking on dirty, inefficient and harmful stoves
■ As a result, 4 million people dying each year
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UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY BY 2030
30%
70%
New connections in rural areas IEA World Energy Outlook
Grid extension
Mini-grid andhome-based
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SMART CITIES: NEED FOR A VILLAGE LEVEL
ANALOGUE
SMART VILLAGES
SMART CITIES
47% of world’s
population and 70% of
the world’s poor live in
rural villages
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SMART VILLAGES: SOME KEY FEATURES
Education and health services
ICT connectivity: distance learning and world’s knowledge base
Modern health services and tele-medicine
Through ICT connectivity, participate in governance processes
At local, regional and national levels
Creating smart communities with strong rural and urban linkages
Foster entrepreneurship in provision and use of energy services
Capture more of the agricultural value chain
Create new businesses
Building more resilient communities better able to respond to shocks
Clean water and sanitation
Affordable and nutritious food
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SHIFTING THE BALANCE OF OPPORTUNITIES
BETWEEN CITIES AND VILLAGES
Technological
advances
Game changing
technologies
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THE SMART VILLAGES INITIATIVE
Focus: mini/micro-grid and home-based approaches
Policy advice: an insightful, ‘view from the frontline’ of the
challenges of village energy provision for development, and
how they can be overcome
Workshops: bringing together the key players: scientists,
entrepreneurs, villagers, NGO’s, financers, regulators and
policy makers etc:
What are the barriers?
How can they be overcome?
What messages to funders and policy makers?
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Project team: Universities of Cambridge and
Oxford
Key partners:
- National Science Academies
- Practical Action / TERI
Funding: charitable
foundations: CMEDT & TWCF
SMART VILLAGES INITIATIVE: A PARTNERSHIP
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SMART VILLAGES: PREPARATORY WORK
Scoping study
Village-level energy services in Tanzania, Ghana and India
University of Oxford study team
Published January 2013: www.e4sv.org
Extensive round of meetings
Europe: European Commission and Parliament
UN: UNIDO and UNEP
Other stakeholders
Forward look workshop
Cambridge, January 2014
Possible game changing scientific / technical developments over next
10-20 years
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CORE COMPONENT: IN-COUNTRY WORKSHOPS
East Africa – June 2014
SE Asia – January 2015
South Asia – March 2015
South America – January 2016
West Africa – April 2016
Central America – November 2016
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IN EACH REGION - 12 MONTH PROGRAMME OF
ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES:
Preparation of briefs/reports and briefing meetings
Capacity building events
Further workshops
Entrepreneurial competitions
Final event with key stakeholders
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CROSS-CUTTING ACTIVITIES
Booklet of essays
Pocket guide
Website:www.e4sv.org
Final Workshops: Brussels and Addis Ababa
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THE SMART VILLAGES INITIATIVE
A key aim: identify framework conditions to:
foster entrepreneurial activities
maximise leverage of public sector funding
An underlying premise: maximise social benefit and
development impact:
integrate energy access with other development initiatives
take a community level approach
An important concern:
to catalyse progression through the various levels of
energy access
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ARUSHA WORKSHOP: FINDINGS &
RECOMMENDATIONS
Solar lights/home systems:
− Have reached ‘tipping point’: rapid expansion on commercial basis
− Pace of rollout constrained by distribution networks and working capital
− Energy escalator approach to higher powers: TV, fridge, sewing machine
Mini-grids:
■ Search for scalable business models – for now continuing needs for govt/donor support
■ Catch 22 for developers: access to affordable finance
■ Dynamic mini-grids v solar home systems: ‘hub and spoke’ model
Technologies:
■ Potential breakthroughs in cost: e.g. printable organic solar cells
■ Need for: ■ Improved control systems
■ ‘Plug and play’ technologies
■ Recycling
■ More applied research: improved links between university researchers & SMEs
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ARUSHA WORKSHOP: FINDINGS &
RECOMMENDATIONS
Integrate with other development initiatives: − Associated investments in productive enterprises in the home &
community − New enterprises and increased productivity of existing income
generating activities
Need for better collaboration: − A confusion/competition of funders − Public-private-community partnerships
Supportive policy and regulatory frameworks: − Plea from entrepreneurs: less red tape and some breathing space − Nurture home grown enterprises: business incubation / advisory
support services
Value of sharing of information & experiences: ■ Across East African countries ■ Case studies of smart villages ■ Government/donor funded datasets of wind, hydro etc. potential
Develop approaches to evaluate development outcomes