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THE SMART VILLAGES INITIATIVE

John Holmes & Bernie Jones

January 2015

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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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UN SE4ALL INITIATIVE

■ Ensure universal access to modern energy services by 2030

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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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ENERGY AS A CATALYST FOR DEVELOPMENT

sustainable Energy Access

for development

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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

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Thank you for your attention