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Conclusions and Recommendations of Energy Access Committee

Access to energy: what?

1. Electricity: on grid, off grid, low load and more

2. Clean cooking systems: fuels and heat

3. Mechanical power: link to income generation

4. Consumers are focused on the service not technology or sources.

• Factors: affordability, reliability, accessibility

Access for whom?

1. People in households: very poor, poor, not poor

2. Enterprises: rural or urban- must add value3. Social infrastructure: hospitals, clinics,

schools 4. 1,2,3, may be linked in concept of anchor

demand5. Gender: different perspectives/needs of

men and women

Call to Action- Political

1. Raise access on the global agenda as the development enabler

2. Energy must be in the post MDG framework3. At national level energy access must be elevated

on national political agenda4. National energy councils/fora must be multi

stakeholder 5. Must have long term strategic vision beyond a

sector plan: SE4All Action Agenda’s6. Is bigger than electricity; is on and off grid7. Currently do not exist: call for its creation

Utilities: Enabler or Disabler

1. Key to electricity solutions are healthy utilities

2. Needs to be higher on political agenda

3. Are key to enable/make legal/provide incentives for off grid solution

4. On grid will not reach all populations, not soon

5. Off grid solutions can be mini grid or end use electricity

6. SE4All should support utility to utility support

Mini grids

1. Will increase greatly to meet unserved population, especially rural areas

2. Need to know grid plans to know where market is/ will be

3. Recommend policy attention to make them legal, billable with licenses, IPP

4. Links to energy-water-food nexus key

5. Focus on income generating

Mini grid recommendations

1. Document business models, their structure

2. Scale up through financing and replication

3. Need to move from pilots to massive roll out

4. Make the link between policy and finance

Enterprise based solutions

• People as clients not beneficiaries• Poor people also participate in markets• Need to know what are the products and

services people want• Services that support income generation

are key• Absolutely poor people need different

access schemes based on basic needs and government support

Enterprises recommendations

• Continuum energy access finance facility needed: start up, growth, replication etc.

• Concessional and commercial finance needed

• Mechanisms should be regional

• Propose convening foundation world

• Role of consumer finance is key

• Women should be explicitly engaged in enterprised based solutions