Type of On-Grid Activities
Overview
Access to electricity is among the lowest in the world, especially in rural areas. Often many district capitals depend on expensive and often unreliable power generation with diesel generators. Outside these towns, the situation is even worse. The overwhelming majority of rural households, most rural schools, health centres and administrative posts are without access to electricity. Energy solutions must consider this reality and combine extension and densification of the national electricity grid along with the adoption of modern technological solutions and energy services.[1]
Type of Grid Activities
Grid Extension
Grid Densification
Costs
|
Benin | Ghana | Bolivia | Peru | Mozambique | |
Costs/ Connection (€) |
2000 |
5540 |
220-588 |
62 |
90 |
134 |
Tariff |
Social tariff |
Social tariff |
Social tariff |
Social tariff |
Social tariff |
Social tariff |
Security of energy supply |
Medium |
Medium |
High |
High |
High |
high |
Financial Support
|
Benin | Ghana | Bolivia | Peru | Mozambique | |
EnDev subsidy |
70% |
99% |
100% |
20% |
22% |
100% |
Government |
30% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
0% |
Utility |
0% |
0% |
0% |
0-80% |
0% |
0% |
Customer |
0% |
1% |
0% |
0-80% |
78% |
0% |
Additional Support[2]
- Procurement support
- Developing local standards for grid connection
- Facilitating group applications for grid connections
- Training of local electricians for in-house wiring
- Training of consumers in energy use and efficiency
- Ex-ante savings for connection fees
- Introduction of installment payments of the connection fee linked to the electricity bills
Lessons Learned[2]
- Some utilities are not interested in grid densification
- Poor households are often excluded in extension projects
- Some utilities have great difficulties to organize efficient procurement processes causing severe delays
- Free rider effect difficult to avoid (efficient selection process or accept the effect)
- Detailed monitoring is considered a burden and not always implemented
- In several countries power generation capacity cannot keep up withgrid extension
- In rural areas several households are connected to a meter to save the connection fee which can be legal or illegal according to national and local regulation. In some of these case voltage drop can be a severe problem
-> Lessons Learned Category on energypedia
Further Information
- Grid Portal on energypedia
- Grid Extension / Densification Approaches:Community Rural Electrification Programme (CREP), Nepal
References
- ↑ Energising Development (EnDev) - http://endev.info/content/Main_Page
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Experience from EnDev Project - https://energypedia.info/wiki/Energising_Development_%28EnDev%29