PowerPoint Presentation - Parliamentarians and Energy Access (Gregory Woodsworth)

coal oil natural gas sunlight wind biomass

electricity

charcoal biofuels

LPG/propane

Sources

Extraction

Treatment

Conversion

Technologies

Distribution

Service

Technologies

Carriers

(fuels)

Services

Electricity, grid,

truck,

railway,

women

light bulb, automobile, refrigerator, gas stove, arc welder, water pump

Architecture of the Energy System

communication

transportation

keeping warm/cold

food

health care

security

potable water

consumer goods

Coal mining, tree felling, oil/gas recovery etc

Coal/gas fired power plant, photovoltaic panels wind turbines, biogas digester


	A significant and growing branch of energy planning focuses on the issue of energy services as the starting point for analysis and design of a suitable response to the lack of energy for development issue. Energy access is becoming increasingly common part of our vocabulary as we address the issues of poverty, women, environmental and social issues, cost considerations and so on. It moves us outside the concept of �energy as a sector� and moving us decisively away from a �business as usual� scenario.

	As we refine our approach to energy access it is becoming clear that the provision of the services can be associated with particular forms of energy, namely�next slide