• Components
• Battery types
• Energy sources
• Sizing a system
  
• Importing - Licensing - Technology transfer
• Local production/planning capacity
  
  

• Energy planning for rural areas(national level, local level)
• Promotional instruments

Operation and Business Models

• Promotion of local planning/ design capacities
• Modes of operation (public, private, community-based …)
• Promotion of private sector participation
  Operator models / business set-up
• Metering and billing systems
  (metering, flat-rate / limiters, pre-payment)
• Productive use
• Tariffs
• Operation and maintenance (models, training approaches, …)
• innovative battery delivery

Financing Models

• Grants, subsidies
• Loans(soft loans, commercial loans)
  
• Involvement of MFIs, commercial banks, governmental financial institutions
• Risk coverage
  (for project preparation, for construction phase, operation phase)
• Analysis Tool for the financial feasibility of BCS projects

• Monitoring'(socio-economic studies, baseline studies, …)
• Conflict-sensitive project design
• Social implications of load management  of BCS
• Integration of gender issuesof BCS
• Consumer awareness and communicationof BCS
• Environmental impact assessments
• Climate change related issues

• on BCS
  

• Mali
• Rwanda
• Ethiopia
• Burundi
• Mozambique

• Project archive
  
• Manuals
• Tender documents
• Feasability Studies
• Further articles

• http://www.sunlabob.com/
• http://www.basytec.de/links_e.html
• http://www.phaesun.com/