AEPC’s Initiative forImproving Access and Enhancing Use of Cleaner and More

Efficient Cookstoves and Fuels in Humanitarian Settings

Ram Prasad Dhital

Executive Director

Alternative Energy Promotion Centre

Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (MoSTE)

Nepal

Background

AEPC• Established in November 03, 1996

• National Executing Agency – Renewable energy programmes &projects

• Government Institution under MoSTE- semi autonomous status;Board represented by public sector, private sector & financialsector

• Mandate: policy and plan formulation, resource mobilization,technical support, M&E, quality assurance & coordination Info

• Currently implementing National Rural and RenewableEnergy Programme (NRREP) supported by a number ofexternal development partners and implementedthrough various partner organizations including privatesector

Alternative Energy Promotion Centre

Promoted Renewable

Energy Technologies

Solar (Thermal & PV)

Biogas (HH and Institutional)

Solid Biomass (ICS ,Gasifiers)

Hydro (Micro, Mini, IWM)

Wind Biofuel

Overview of EQ Damage

Affected Districts

• 34 districts

• 14 are highly affected

Damage

• Total Deaths:8,648

• Injured:16,808

Households Destroyed

• Private House Fully Destroyed: 500,223

• Private House Partially Destroyed: 269,156

• Gov. House Fully Destroyed: 978

• Gov. House Partially Destroyed: 3021

RET Solutions for immediate relief as well as rehabilitation

5

Solar TukiLighting

• Solar Tuki

• Solar Charging Stations

Mobile Charging

Portable Stoves

Clean Cooking

Community based

Projects

Repair and maintenence

Light: 1 to 3 for 4-5 hrs

Mobile charging: 1

Size: 3-10 Wp

Light: 2 to 5

Mobile charging: 30 mobiles at a

time

Size: 100 Wp

Metallic light-weight

cookstoves with portable

design suitable to cook

for single family

Immediate

repair of MHPs

where there is

possibility to

reconnect to

the HHs;

Similar option

for ISPS,

PVPS, biogas

etc

Progress made so far• Promotion of improved energy devices only as AEPC has specified

standard of the equipment which will be disseminated in Nepal (NEPQA,

NIBC etc.)

• Up to now only 684nos. of ICS were distributed among EQ victims of

some of the districts

• In case of solar lighting 11,640 HH, 240systems of Mobile Charging

Stations and 200 Camp lights were distributed to EQ Victims of 14 most

affected districts

• Coordination with World bank, Red cross etc are under process to

collaborate the effort of much more household to serve with clean

Cookstoves

• Post Disaster Need Assessment (PDNA) prepared

Ongoing activities

• Currently, one tender call from AEPC for the procurement

of 20,000 Clean Cookstoves to be distributed in 13 EQ

affected districts is at the last stage of evaluation

• Another tender call for procurement of 20,000 Clean

Cookstoves will be made very soon from AEPC

• Practical Action in coordination with AEPC is also planning

to disseminate 10,000 hood stoves and 20,000 portable

clean Cookstoves in 5 EQ affected districts

Experience with SAFE humanitarian working

group

It was really useful for AEPC to be part of SAFE

humanitarian working people to effectively coordinate

relief works carried out by different players so that no

duplication occurs and capacities could be aligned to

reach victims in efficient ways

Particularly, weekly calls were most effective as wide

array of agencies were brought together to share their

works

Waka-Waka lights arrived in Nepal which were

disseminated among police force who were working for

the people day and night.

AEPC also hosted in-person meetings to take things from

information sharing to yielding partnerships

Thank you!

For further communications:

Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC)

Khumaltar, Lalitpur

P.O. Box 14364, Kathmandu, Nepal

Tel. No.: 5539390, 5548468

E-mail: ram.dhital@aepc.gov.np

www.aepc.gov.np