The Potential of Mini Grids and Critical Factors - Discussion

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

Presentation by C.Breyer - Reyer Lemoine Institut

1. The specific criteria for minigrids have to checked at the end locally.</span>

2. How was calculated the rural population???

• Taking into account the number of rural electrification per country (%) and number of poverty (%)

3. Why some countries which do not have a clearly huge electrification rate were excluded?? (E.g. Bangladesh)

• Combination of market, political environment and the weighting and scoring

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

• Yes, it was done.
  

5. Cost of finance – ability of finance (Setting a company up, infrastructure) How was it taken into account??

• Not considered because it was so extensive the investigation
  

6. 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 a difference between critical or important factor is done?

• First, a discussion of several specials from different areas is done in order to identify critical/important factors and finally a practical field investigation is done for verifying which of them were really critical or just important.

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

By Maizaklah Ayu Abdullah

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1. How the leader of the community was approached??

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

2. How is the social economy background of the communities? How is people taught to use it..

• They don’t handle money very often
  
• Basic education

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.