Micro Hydro Power - Workshop - Nairobi 2009

Overview

Date: 5.5.2009 - 7.5.2009

Place: Nairobi, Kenya

Contact: andreas.michel@giz.de

RESULTS - Outcome - Documentation

• FIELD TRIP - Greenpower site - video and experts recommendations
• FIELD TRIP - Bus discussion outcomes - MHP WS Nairobi 2009
• Market of Opportunities - Offers & Requests (see below)

Market of Opportunities - Offers & Requests

Who/Where/ contactperson	Offer	Request	3rd party offer
Promotion of Rural Electrification by means of Renewable Energies (Madagascar) (Sören David)	Feasibility studies	Local production of components	Practical experience of private operators
	Regional planning	Examples for productive use	Set-up of rural electrification agencies
	Feed-in policies	Metering
	Bankable project presentations	Maintenance
	Financial modelling	Financial modelling
PSP-Hydro (Rwanda) (Mario Merchan)	Financing options	Productive use applications	Hydro power engineer for technical audits
	Business Development Services	CDM guidelines for micro hydro power	Financing mechanism design expert
	Operator business set -up	Developing of turbine manufacture capacities
	Dealing with banks
	Feed-in contracts
PREEEP (Uganda) ( Peter Schragl)	Experience in project preparation and development	Development of local capacities (materials)	Turbine (x-flow), manufacturer in Kenya
	Local / International equipment suppliers (Load Limiters, turbine, etc.)	Detailed engineering design
	Socio – economic survey questionnaire	Good bookkeeping for community schemes
	Prices of pico turbines (Power Pal) imported	O&M for operation (daily, monthly, yearly)
		Management Models
		PPA as samples (for MHP)
		Hydro Scouts manual
		Identification and Promotion of productive uses of energy
		Expert database
AMES – E (Ethiopia) (Joachim Gaube)	Hydropower and Hydraulic Engineering Curriculum (MSc)	Design of a turbine smaller than 30 kW (T- series)	Baselines, tariff setting, Part Average Analysis (PAAs), site fees
	Hydro Scout Guide	Support in community development – the idea behind is to develop a community developer network	Technical training and MHPP turbine design (X flow)
	Study on feed-in regulations	Support in mini-grid design, including household connections	Feed-in tariffs and general tariff setting
	.	.	Appropriate sector development
	.	.	Integration on productive use
AMES – M (Mozambique) (Klaus Hornberger)	Experience in upgrading traditional water mills (site surveys, community participation and local manufacturing)	Financing models (advice and experiences) – what works under which conditions	Productive use of MHP
	Productive use of MHP	Pico technology and local manufacture (design, drawings, experiences)
MHPP Indonesia (Gerhard Fischer)	Taylor made training in technology, institutional	Linking up within Request EnDev projects
	setup, and O&M	MHP News, MHP database
GTZ - Headquarters (Andreas Michel)	Wiki – Hydro Power Portal	Tools: Project financing, institutional promotion and financing schemes	CDM for rural electrification (HERA – Michael Blunck; CDM / JI – Holger Liptow)
	RETEX as technology transfer instrument	EnDev - Wiki	Diverse consultants for advisory services for Feed-in tariff establishment
	Productive Use: Impact evaluation, methodology and consultants	Productive use: Impacts and data; Success factors and experiences	Identify local economic potential and options (Value Chain Analysis): GTZ and consultants
	PCNA – methodology and consultants	MHP–Cluster, PCNA (Participatory Capacity Needs Assessment)	Business Development Services (BDS)
	LET- / EnDev – Initiative: 1) Testing (laboratory) and 2) Marketing and field testing of SHS and solar lanterns – together with the ISE Freiburg
REAP (East Africa) Michael Franz)	Support services, e.g. events, management consultants, contacts, information exchange, CDM, etc.	Information, e.g. events, documents, contacts, etc.	Good network of various contacts in East Africa
Greenpower (Kenya) (Michael Franz)	Manufacturing of turbines / transformers / control panels	Support to the community in finance	Setting companies and legal structures for communities
	Knowledge transfer to the other projects on technical issues	Link to some organizations which can provide interest free loans
	Education to community projects - how they can solve their own problems
ENTEC Indonesia (Gerhard Fischer) (Andreas Michel)	Turbine licencesd T-15 (30 – 100 kW)
	Developing public domain design
	Export of e-m equipment from Indonesia (South – South)
Julian Frede (Andreas Michel)	M&E Tools: Socio-Economic Studies, Feasibility Studies, Cost-benefit Analysis
Consultant CZE (Carlos Zarate) (Andreas Michel)	Productive End Uses (incl. machine technology)	Linking with EnDev – projects
	Training: Pico + Micro Technology and ICT in Energy	Partner for an observatory for MHP (online platform)
	Networking with experience in Latin America	Experiences with CDM in MHP
Peter Engelmann (Andreas Michel)	Productive use of electricity
	LV – distribution systems

References

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