The main aim of this policy-support document is to attract policy-makers attention in renewable energies deployment, offering to energy and development stakeholders an alternative subsidy-scheme to support electrification in a village-scale mini-grid based on the good performance of the renewable electricity generation.
This report is targeted at stakeholders involved in planning or implementing small projects where electricity is produced from renewable energy. The report presents an overview of the challenges linked to the control of such systems, especially when multiple energy-generating units are interconnected in a mini-grid and/or linked to a larger grid.
Renewable power has significant potential to reduce the cost of electricity in rural and island settings across the developing world. In areas distant from main power grids, regional isolated grids – often referred to as mini-grids – are often the main source of electricity to industry and households. Power generation usually relies on diesel fuel, often imported over long distances. Yet generating costs can be reduced by hybridising these mini-grids with solar photovoltaic (PV) or other renewable power sources.
This report analyses the impact of delivery models on the creation of sustainable welfare benefits. Three case studies are selected, comprising one renewable energy mini-grid project or programme from Nepal, Peru and Kenya. Although rural electrification poses a great challenge to all three countries, their different physical, institutional, economic and socio-cultural contexts have led to different approaches to rural electrification.
This report reviews the year 2015 and focuses on five “high impact opportunity” object areas. It describes how a wide range of activities were undertaken to raise the profile of clean energy mini-grids, draw attention to critical issues and facilitate building the partnership required for sustainable “clean energy mini-grids”.
Cost-benefit analyses for distributed generation photovoltaic (DGPV) can provide substantive insights into understanding the potential flows of value among stakeholders that grid-connected DGPV programs might induce. Tariff design has a significant impact on the level and accrual of such value; thus, a cost-benefit analysis is a robust starting point for stakeholder engagement and discussion on DGPV tariff design.
This first edition booklet provides summarizes the clean mini-grids projects being implemented in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region through the ECOWAS Renewable Energy Facility (EREF).The overall objective of the facility is to contribute to sustainable development in rural and peri-urban areas of West Africa through increased deployment and use of reliable and affordable renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and services.
This report sets out the main findings of the discussions carried out by the Developing Countries Group of the European Photovoltaic (PV) Technology Platform. The main aim of this policy-support document is to attract policy-makers attention in renewable energies deployment, offering to energy and development stakeholders an alternative subsidy-scheme to support electrification in a village-scale mini-grid based on the good performance of the renewable electricity generation.
In the absence of specific guidelines from the UNFCCC on how to develop NAMAs, implementing organizations, donors, and host countries have been formulating NAMAs in a trial-and-error basis. By extracting lessons from these experiences, the previous version of this guidebook introduced basic elements of NAMAs and also different approaches for NAMA-related decisions.
This policy brief summarizes some of the main approaches to mini-grid development, the requirements for successful implementation and key challenges to their development, particularly in Africa. Country examples are referred to where they are available.