Results of the discussions during Mata 2009 about:
Which tariffs and billing systems have been successful? Which challenges have been identified?
Country/Project/System
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System applied successful
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Challenges
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Indonesia / MHP /Micro Hydro Schemes
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- Flat rate (households)
- Item based (eg # of bulbs)
- Cluster metering
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- Overloading
- Sanction management
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Pakistan
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- Item based (eg # of bulbs)
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planned in Ethiopia / EnDev / Micro Hydro Schemes
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- flat rate (no productive use) + mech.load limiter; only CLF, no social tariff
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- billing - recovery rate too low
- monitoring of applied devices
- Static system
- risk: pilot --> not cost covering
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Republic South Africa / SHS
Pakistan / SHS
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- Fee for service with pre-paid metering
- complete financial failure
- conceptual design resulted in no ownership and caused vandalism, theft,...
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Senegal / SHS
Burkina Faso / SHS
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- Fee for service successful
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Ghana / grid
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- prepaid and post paid metered
- lifeline tariff
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China / grid - households
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- one tariff pre paid metered
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Rwanda / grid
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- one tariff pre paid metered
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- power production to low for overall demand
- utility prefers to connect only big consumers
- off grid tariff (MHP) lower than grid tariff
- not cost covering
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Zambia / grid
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- recently change from flat rate to prepaid tariff
- resulted in lower electricity consumption
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- with reduced electricity consumption the demand for charcoal increase singnificant
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Senegal / Minigrids
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- flat rate with consumption limiter
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- not cost covering under all conditions
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Marocco / planned for island grid
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