PowerPoint Presentation - Parliamentarians and Energy Access (Gregory Woodsworth)

MDG-based
Energy targets for 2015

Target 1: Enable the use of modern fuels for 50% of those who at present use traditional biomass for cooking - improved cookstoves, reduce indoor air pollution, increase sustainable biomass production.

Target 2: Access to electricity for all urban and peri-urban poor.

Target 3: Access to modern energy services such as lighting, refrigeration, information and communication technology, and water treatment and supply for all schools, clinics, hospitals and community centres.

Target 4: Access to mechanical power within the community for all communities for heating and productive uses.


	•EAC has adopted four targets that will have the greatest impact in meeting the MDGs
	•As has been noted at CSD so far, the biomass issue is the most difficult and expensive to deal with but without properly addressing it the MDGs related to poverty reduction, health, and environmental sustainability will not be addressed
	•Providing access by the urban and peri-urban poor to the grid where it already exists is not an issue of technology or large scale investments but one of regulatory reform and governance. Models exist elsewhere (South Africa, Tunisia) which indicate that this is feasible
	•Electricity and motive power at the community level where the grid does not exist is a technical challenge for scaling up decentralized systems at relatively low cost. Few technical options exist beyond those that can serve niche markets but there are models that working in West Africa, notably the Multifunctional Platforms which will merit review in the East Africa context. There are already multifunctional pilot programs underway in all EAC countries associated with the Global Village Energy Partnership