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

1. 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

2. Module A 1. Challenges: Energy Poverty & Rapid Climate Change 2. Solution: Renewable EnergyModule B 1. Steps to developing a renewable energy projectModule C 1. Examples of Successful Renewable Energy Projects Agenda

3. 1. Personal Clean Technology2. Renewable Energy Home System 3. Rural Energy Entrepreneurs4. Community Power Case Studies

4. 1. Design, Make and Distribute Personal CleanTech EcoZoom And many more…. photos by d.light, stovetec, and powermundo

5. 1. Examples Personal Clean Tech Distributors Elephant Energy Photos: Feeplay, d.light, Barefoot power, powermundo

6. 1. Personal– Improved Cookstoves Peace Corps “Stovetec Cookstoves field testing in Senegal” Peace Corps Volunteer: Tested Efficiency gauge local interest Results: Cut wood use in ½ Less cooking time Less smoke in home Photo (not in Senegal) From Trees Water People http://www.pcsenegal.org/index.php?page=apptech/stovetec.html

7. 1. Personal Clean Technology Personal Clean Technology can reach millions like cell phones Cell phone subscriptions to hit 5 billion globally* *http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-10454065-78.html Photo- http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-10454065-78.html

8. 7 Steps - Systems Approach STEPMIF for personal clean technology S - India, East Africa, Peru, GuatemalaT -Multiple options, prices, simpleE - Reach customers via videos, radio, print P -Microfinance Partners M- Inexpensive productsI - Businesses & Distribution F - Low maintenance products Results- Millions of people have access to clean energy

9. 2. Home Systems S - 32% have access to grid T - biogas, stoves, solar home system E - 15-day technician training course P - female technicians, allowed to visit homes in daytime M - Microloans I - Homes and business F - 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 Shakti http://www.ashdenawards.org/

10. 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

11. 2. Household– Improve Cookstoves Peace Corps Cookstoves from Panama to Ethiopia to Senegal…. “Hillary Clinton will visit a Clean Cookstove demonstration at the Peace Corps Ethiopia headquarters”- June 13, 2011 S - 3.5% forest coverage left in Panama province T - Cookstoves P - Regional Environmental Government M - Household contributes materials/labor I - Household and Community Projects Results: Reduce Deforestation Rates https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=donate.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=686-148

12. 3. Rural Energy Entrepreneur photos by Nuru Light

13. Renewable Energy Business Opportunities Activity: A solar entrepreneur photos by Elephant Energy

14. 3. Solar Charged Battery Business S - Isolated community T - Solar charging station E - Site to teach community about solar P - Zara solar dealers M - Loan from I - Business F - 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-tanzania photos by NREL, not in Tanzania

15. 4. Community Power – Micro Hydro 47 micro-hydro schemes, with average electrical power 33 kW, to provide metered electricity to about 5,000 families. S - Water, mountains, community interest T - Micro-hydro E - ‘everyone in the village an engineer.’ P - IBD M - Loan and 40% down from community I - Micro-utility business F - Technicians to maintain system “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 http://practicalaction.org/micro_hydro_expertise

16. 4. Community Power – Solar School Peace Corps “Renewing Minds at Solar Library in Burkino Faso” S - 25 km from nearest powerline T - Solar E - School as a education focal point P - Parent Association M - Peace Corps fund raising I - Community Building Project F - Legal obligation for costs Results: Students able to study at night https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=donate.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=686-148

17. Matching Needs with Project Solutions Activity Match the need with the right type of tool, project, technology Technology not always the right answer photos by PowerMundo and NREL

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19. 4. Community Power “HPS as a system, as opposed to just a power, product, or services company” S - 56% No electricity, rice waste T - Waste to energy-Biomass E - Train technicians P - “reliable people on the ground” M - 0.75$/watt I - Micro-utility business F - 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.pdf http://www.acumenfund.org/investment/husk-power-systems.html http://www.huskpowersystems.com/ Photo-Flicker- Acumen Fund Husk Power Systems Wants to Lead "a Revolution in Electricity“Fast Company Wed Jan 5, 2011

20. 2. Home Systems 1995 to 2005 170 employees 25 services centers, 48,000 solar home systems P & M - Microfinance partners F - Service Centers photo by Selco TECNOSOL, Nicaragua 40,000 SHS systems E- local branches, radio programs, posters on buses, billboards and the network of existing customers P & M-links customers with local micro-finance institutions http://www.ashdenawards.org/