The Zambia PV ESCOs Project Anders Arvidson Stockholm Environment Institute

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The Zambia PV ESCOs ProjectAnders
ArvidsonStockholm Environment Institute
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Graph prepared by Mathias Gustavsson, Bioquest
and University of Gothenburg
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Increase electricity access from 20 to 35 by
2010
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Project objectives

• What is needed to make PV a sustainable rural
  electrification approach?
• Input to design of necessary institutional
  framework

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Acheivements in breif

• 3 ESCOs
• Techncians and adminstative staff trained
• 400 clients paying for light, radio, tv
• 2 400 people
• Children doing homework
• Small business extended hours
• Motel/lodge

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Acheivements in breif

• Modern lifestyle
• Living conditions for civil servants more
  attractive
• Good payment record
• ESCOs takes action when customers default
• 1 panel has been stolen.
• Applicants waiting

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Acheivements in breif

• Over-use of the systems, especially businesses.
• Problems with pre-payment meters in Chipata
• Long tendering procedures
• Reach the better-off
• Established rural PV service infrastructure

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Fee for service

• EUR 6 8 /month
• Salaries, transport, battery replacement
• Not capital
• Agreement to repay capital

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Main current company level issues

• Cash flow
• Mobility

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National level issues

• Transfer of ownership (Gov-ESCOs)
• Expansion beyond the present
• Subsidy/no subsidy
• Subsidy needed
• No financial market
• Now Bearing recurrent costs
• Investment capital

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Expansion

• A dedicated organisation
• A solid institutional framework
• National utility?
• Solar Energy Society of Zambia?
• Energy Regulation Board?

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Facilitator

• Zambia Solar Facility supported
• Independent, transparent, accountable
• Rural electrification agency
• Government/financing agency