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Energy for All: Increasing Access to Energy

for the poor in Asia and the Pacific
Building Capacity to Respond to Climate Change in South Asia
29-30 June 2010, Kathmandu, Nepal

Shahid Parwez
Jiwan Acharya
Asian Development Bank

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ADB’s Energy Policy 2009
Enabling energy operations to be aligned with ADB’s overall
strategy emphasizing energy security, facilitating a transition
to a low-carbon economy, universal access to energy, and for
achieving ADB’s vision of a region free of poverty

Three Pillars of ADB’s Support to

the Energy Sector:
• Promoting energy efficiency and
renewable energy
• Maximizing access to energy for all
• Promoting energy sector reform,
capacity-building & governance
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 Energy poverty persists in Asia
1.5 billion people worldwide lack access to electricity, 809 million in Asia

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Source: IEA, World Energy Outlook 2009
ADB’s response: Energy for All
Initiative
Supported with TA funding from the Government of the Netherlands and the
Government of Japan

Goals

Through

Tools

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ADB investment in energy access
(2003 – 2009)

Energy for All Initiative launched

Source: ADB estimates

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Sample EfA supported projects
• VIE: scaling up national domestic biogas program through credit
provision to 40K households - $19 mn investment
• VIE: providing electricity connections to 105K households
through network expansion and rehabilitation and off-grid mini-
hydro - $151 mn investment
• NEP: TA to increase access to finance for small-scale energy
infrastructure, such as improved water mills - $933K investment
• LAO: expanding domestic biogas development through
sustainable natural resource management sub-projects – up to
$1 mn investment
• BAN: expanding access to piped natural gas, including pre-paid
metering component targeting poor households
• BHU: expanding domestic biogas development
• REG: Increasing access to renewable energy in the Pacific
• PHI: assessing feasibility of national domestic biogas program
• IND: supporting TERI to expand and mobilize local financing for
• LaBL Campaign
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 Lighting Rural Nepal

TA 7504-NEP: Increasing Access to Energy in Rural Nepal

• Approved by ADB Board in March 2010 (US $0.933 million)
• Implementation Period – 3 years
Key features of the TA
• Expansion of Improved Water Mills in remote rural areas of
Nepal
• Adopt Social Merchant Banking (SMB) approach to financing
IWM
• A revolving fund with a menu of ‘gap-filling’ finance – equity,
debt, bridge financing, lease-toward-purchase, and PRG
• Explore CDM opportunities

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 Lighting Rural Nepal……..

RETA 7485: Effective Deployment of Distributed Small Wind

Power Systems in Asian Rural Areas
• Approved by ADB Board in December 2009 (US $3.87million)
• Implementation Period – 2.5 years
• Nepal - one of the 3 DMCs selected in the first phase for pilot

Key features of the TA

• Small wind power systems in windy villages of Nepal
• Pilot in Nepal
• AEPC – lead and undertaking the groundwork for piloting

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 Lighting Rural Nepal……..

RETA : Solar Energy Development in South Asia

• Approved by ADB in December 2009 ($1.94 million)
• Two phases - (a) Opportunity assessment
- (b) subproject 1
• Promote solar energy development in Nepal
RETA: Needs Assessment and Development of the Solar Energy
Program
• Approved by ADB in March 2010 ($1 million)
• Create knowledge management platform
• Need assessment for both on-grid and off-grid solar power
generation
• Asia Solar Energy Forum – July 2010 (in Manila)
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Energy for All Partnership
A new regional approach for scaling up access to energy for
the poor
What: Regional, multi-stakeholder platform for networking, cooperation,
sharing lessons learned, developing “scaling up” pro-poor access to energy
projects

Objective: Provide access to reliable and affordable modern energy services to

100 million people in Asia-Pacific by 2015

Why: Responds to stakeholders’ call for a regional platform to overcome the

challenges of scaling up successful models

Who: Brings together key stakeholders from private sector, financial

institutions, governments, NGOs.

How: ADB seed funding for secretariat; working group activities and project
development supported by ADB, other partners
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 Working Groups

Leveraging activities to achieve greater impact

Benefits to Partners
• Project pipeline development
• Networking and mentoring
• Exchange of information and know-how
• Access to financial institutions and investors
• Explore business opportunities and build partnerships to develop,
finance, and implement energy access projects
• Newsletter, publications, invitations to Partnership events

Getting Involved
• Register online: www.energyforall.info
• Contact the secretariat: secretariat@energyforall.info
Contact
MD Shahid Parwez
Nepal Resident Mission
Kathmandu
Email: msparwez@adb.org
Tel: Tel: +977 1 422 7779
Jiwan Acharya
Climate Change Specialist (Energy)
ADB Headquarters, Manila
Email: jacharya@adb.org
Tel: +63 2 632 6207
web: www.adb.org/Clean-Energy/energyforall-initiative.asp

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