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From: Bruce Baikie <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:50 AM
Subject: [TIER] Fwd: World Bank book announcement: How can climate friendly
access to electricity in rural Africa be achieved?
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Dear colleague,
"*From the Bottom Up: How Small Producers and Mini-Grids Can Deliver
Electrification and Renewable Energy in Africa" *is a useful realistic
guide recently published by the World Bank. Easy to read and understand,
this book focuses on ground level policy and regulatory actions that can
create a workable foundation for commercially and environmentally
sustainable private and community investment in distributed generation. A
range of options for dealing with key controversial issues are analyzed.
These issues include:
- what are the sustainable business and climate friendly models;
- when is hybrid distributed generation more suitable than pure
renewable distributed generation;
- what to do "when the big grid connects to the little grid";
- how should an economic regulator set tariffs for projects that have earned
revenues from carbon credits;
- how to implement revenue "top-ups" to feed-in tariffs for grid
connected renewable generators;
- how to deal with the political constraints of a uniform national
tariff for rural mini-grids;
- how to establish workable interconnection and operating standards when
a distributed generator connects to an existing mini-grid or to the main
grid; and
- how to implement light-handed regulation.
The book draws on the authors' on-the-ground experiences (both good and
bad) in Tanzania, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia and other countries.
The book will be of immediate interest and use to developers, investors,
regulators, utilities and policymakers.
It is available as a free pdf download
<https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/16571> and in hardcopy
<https://publications.worldbank.org/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=0&products_id=24658&cid=EXT_WBPubsAlerts_P_EXT>
.
Our apologies if you already received this announcement through another
channel.
With best wishes,
Bernard Tenenbaum and Chris Greacen
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