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= Comprehensive Country Ranking for Renewable Energy Based Mini-Grids Providing Rural Off-Grid Electrification =
 
= Comprehensive Country Ranking for Renewable Energy Based Mini-Grids Providing Rural Off-Grid Electrification =
  
Presentation by C.Breyer - Reyer Lemoine Institut
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By C.Breyer - <span data-scayt_word="Reyer" data-scaytid="1">Reyer</span> <span data-scayt_word="Lemoine" data-scaytid="2">Lemoine</span> <span data-scayt_word="Institut" data-scaytid="3">Institut</span>
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1. The specific criteria for mini-grids has to be checked at the end locally.
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2. How was the rural population calculated?<br/>
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*We took into account the number of rural electrification projects per country (%) and the level of poverty (%)
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3. Why were some countries that clearly have a huge electrification rate excluded? (E.g. Bangladesh)<br/>
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*This was decided upon a combination of market, political environment and the weighting and scoring
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4. Did you make a sensitivity analysis for each variable?<br/>
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*Yes<br/>
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5. How were the ability to finance the project and financial costs like company set ups and infrastructure taken into account?<br/>
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*This was not considered because it was so extensive the investigation<br/>
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*Furthermore, all the collected data is standardized and may not reflect exactly the situation in each country
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1. The specific criteria for minigrids have to checked at the end locally.&lt;/span&gt;
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2. How was calculated the rural population???<br/>
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= Potential of Mini-grids and Critical Factors =
*<span style="line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 0.85em;">Taking into account the number of rural electrification per country (%) and number of poverty (%)</span>
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by Dr. <span data-scayt_word="Teodoro" data-scaytid="5">Teodoro</span> Sanchez of Practical Action UK<br/>
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1. How did you come about deciding upon which factors were critical or important?<br/>
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*To begin with, several specialists from different areas discussed and came up with the critical/important factors. Finally a practical field investigation was done to verify which of these factors were really critical or just important.<br/>
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= <br/>An Objectives Analysis for Improved Holistic Design of a Rural Electrification System =
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By <span data-scayt_word="Maizaklah" data-scaytid="6">Maizaklah</span> <span data-scayt_word="Ayu" data-scaytid="7">Ayu</span> Abdullah
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1. How was the leader of the community approached?
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*The leaders have to know how in other communities mini-grids are working by visiting other sites. The community has to be a very active player in the system. They should suggest energy solutions, among other things.
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*If there is no compromise by the community the project fails very quickly.
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2. What is the socio-economic background of the communities?
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*The people don’t handle money very often, thus they have to be given a basic education on this.<br/>
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= Designing a Sustainable Model for Financial Viability of Decentralized Bio-fuel Based Power Projects =
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By <span data-scayt_word="Debajit" data-scaytid="8">Debajit</span> <span data-scayt_word="Palit" data-scaytid="9">Palit</span>
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*The water for producing biofuel is enough for biofuel based mini-grids.
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*Biofuel is produced by big plants and needs to be decentralized.
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3. Why some countries which do not have a clearly huge electrification rate were excluded?? (E.g. Bangladesh)<br/>
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= Further Information =
*<span style="line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 0.85em;">Combination of market, political environment and the weighting and scoring</span>
 
  
4. Did you make a sensitive analysis for each variable??<br/>
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<span data-scayt_word="energypedia" data-scaytid="10">energypedia</span> Article: [[The Potential of Mini Grids and Critical Factors|The Potential of Mini Grids and Critical Factors]]
*Yes, it was done.<br/>
 
  
5. Cost of finance – ability of finance (Setting a company up, infrastructure) How was it taken into account??<br/>
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*Not considered because it was so extensive the investigation<br/>
 
  
6. All the collected data is standardized and may not reflect exactly the situation in each country
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Latest revision as of 14:16, 16 June 2014

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Comprehensive Country Ranking for Renewable Energy Based Mini-Grids Providing Rural Off-Grid Electrification

By C.Breyer - Reyer Lemoine Institut


1. The specific criteria for mini-grids has to be checked at the end locally.

2. How was the rural population calculated?

  • We took into account the number of rural electrification projects per country (%) and the level of poverty (%)

3. Why were some countries that clearly have a huge electrification rate excluded? (E.g. Bangladesh)

  • This was decided upon a combination of market, political environment and the weighting and scoring

4. Did you make a sensitivity analysis for each variable?

  • Yes

5. How were the ability to finance the project and financial costs like company set ups and infrastructure taken into account?

  • This was not considered because it was so extensive the investigation
  • Furthermore, all the collected data is standardized and may not reflect exactly the situation in each country




Potential of Mini-grids and Critical Factors

by Dr. Teodoro Sanchez of Practical Action UK


1. How did you come about deciding upon which factors were critical or important?

  • To begin with, several specialists from different areas discussed and came up with the critical/important factors. Finally a practical field investigation was done to verify which of these factors were really critical or just important.



An Objectives Analysis for Improved Holistic Design of a Rural Electrification System

By Maizaklah Ayu Abdullah


1. How was the leader of the community approached?

  • The leaders have to know how in other communities mini-grids are working by visiting other sites. The community has to be a very active player in the system. They should suggest energy solutions, among other things.
  • If there is no compromise by the community the project fails very quickly.

2. What is the socio-economic background of the communities?

  • The people don’t handle money very often, thus they have to be given a basic education on this.




Designing a Sustainable Model for Financial Viability of Decentralized Bio-fuel Based Power Projects

By Debajit Palit


  • The water for producing biofuel is enough for biofuel based mini-grids.
  • Biofuel is produced by big plants and needs to be decentralized.


Further Information

energypedia Article: The Potential of Mini Grids and Critical Factors

More information can be found at Micro Perspectives for Decentralized Energy Supply Conference - 2013.