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| PNR | 307 |
| Project Name | Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency |
| Project Detail | Only 40% of Bangladesh’s 160 million people are connected to the electricity grid. In rural areas, which are home to over 70% of the population, only 20% have electricity. Just 6% of the entire population have access to natural gas, and they are primarily in the few urban agglomerations. Half of the country’s total energy consumption is covered by biomass. Providing backup solutions for power failures is a daily challenge facing medium-sized and large factories. Small enterprises and micro-businesses cease production as dusk falls. The poor power supply restricts the day-to-day activities of the population. Smoke and soot from kerosene lamps and conventional stoves cause eye problems and respiratory diseases. However, the reliable and efficient provision of modern energy services is vital to development and poverty reduction. Objective There are numerous decentralised renewable energy sources available to households and companies and the energy available is used more efficiently. Poor families are increasingly able to replace unhealthy traditional stoves and kerosene lamps. Approach The programme uses a multilevel approach and cooperates with a variety of partners. At the policy level, the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources is the most important partner. GIZ is advising the Ministry on ways to improve the legal and institutional framework for the energy sector. This includes developing energy policies and stipulating rules and regulations for energy conservation. The programme is also supporting the establishment of the Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority. For the development and adaptation of technologies, the programme cooperates with research and educational institutions, such as the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute. To disseminate new technologies, GIZ works with many local partners, most of which are non-governmental organisations. The most important of these are Grameen Shakti and BRAC. The programme also works together with organisations such as the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank. Results achieved so far In 2003, the Infrastructure Development Company Ltd. launched a solar home systems programme. By the start of 2013, a total of 2 million systems had been installed, some 190,000 of which were completed with the support of GIZ. The programme is regarded as being one of the most successful of its kind in the world: Higher income is generated from commercial and handicraft activities. Workshops and businesses are able to remain open after dark. Community health centres can run a refrigerator for storing vaccines and other medicines. Children are now able to do schoolwork in the evenings as well. People in rural areas use mobile phones to find out the market prices they can get for their products and keep in touch with their relatives in cities or abroad. Over 1,000 biogas plants have been set up in slaughterhouses, and on dairy and poultry farms. This reduces the consumption of biomass traditionally used for cooking. In this way, the project has also helped to produce pathogen-free fertiliser and to prevent the spread of disease. Around 100 institutions such as boarding schools and madrassas (religious schools) now use human sewage to generate biogas. Depending on their construction, energy-efficient stoves use 30 to 50% less fuel compared to traditional stoves. These stoves have a chimney which means that the health risks posed by the stoves to users, who are mostly women and small children, is no longer as great. The initial number of people trained to build energy-efficient stoves out of clay totals roughly 10,000. Since 2010, concrete has been used to build the stoves. These can be mass-produced, last longer and can be installed more quickly than clay stoves. Roughly one million of these improved stoves have now been sold. Similar stoves are also being used in yarn dyeing plants, restaurants and police stations. An improved system for parboiling rice has been successfully piloted in rice mills. By optimising the old system, the consumption of rice husks was reduced by more than 50%. Around 50 rice mill owners have already had this system installed. In 2010, the project began to introduce solar powered pumps to supply drinking water. There are now approximately 100 such pumps providing clean drinking water to households in the south-west of the country. The advisory services to the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources have helped to improve the legal and institutional framework of the energy sector. This has led not only to renewable energy technologies now becoming more widespread but also to increased energy efficiency in industries and households. |
| Funded By | Deutsche Gesellschaft f?r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) |
| Sector | Energy & Power |
| Country | Ghana , Western Africa |
| Project Value | Plz Refer Document |
Contact Information |
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| Company Name | German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) |
| Address | Postfach 12 03 22, 53045 Bonn, Germany, Tel: +49 / 228 / 9 95 35-0, Fax: +49 / 228 / 9 95 35-35 00. |
