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The
objective of RESIREA is to promote wide-scale development in access
to renewable energy-based electrical services with the goal of contributing
to the fight against poverty.
Framework:
RESIREA has been launched in January 2007 and will last until December
2009.
RESIREA is co-financed by the European
Commission under the COOPENER programme, the French Agency for
Environment ADEME, and the participating
organizations.
Objectives:
RESIREA aims at:
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Removing barriers to large scale
rural electrification programs, by renewable technologies |
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Contributing to the economic and social development
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RESIREA proposes to define sustainable and
ready to implement electrification programmes, in Lower Mekong countries
through:
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an innovative methodology which will
define the most reliable zones, based on the cross-analysis
of technical and economic parameters,
definition of rural electrification programs, economically and
technically sustainable,
trainings of local entrepreneurs,
regional dissemination of methodology and results.
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Localization:
The selected provinces are:
Expected results:
| Number of targeted villages |
± about 40 villages per
country |
| Estimated population |
8 000 families / country |
| Investment |
± about 4 millions Euros / country |
| Technologies |
The most suitable renewable solution between:
- Biomass
- Hydroelectricity
- Solar photovoltaic
(Solar Home Systems or centralized generator)
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| Use of electricity |
- Domestic use for rural
households (lighting, radio, TV)
- Community use for health centres and schools
(lighting and supplying equipments)
- Economic/productive use for workshops,
shops, mills, sewing, fruits transformation, etc.
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| Impacts on poverty alleviation |
- Improvement of living conditions in households
- Improvement of health and education conditions
- Economic stimulation of the local development and activities
that require electricity (production, craft industry, shops,
etc.)
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| Capacity building |
For local partners and provincial authorities:
- training on renewable energies technologies
- elaboration of databases for each province
- methodology for planning DRE programs
- increased awareness of operators and population about the
possibilities of off-grid electrification through renewable
energies
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European partners:
RESIREA integrates the participation of 3 European actors that are
well recognised in their fields of competence:
Local partners:
The local partners are:
Main phases of the work program:
Each partner intervenes on its sector of expertise and shares its
knowledge with the entire project team. The programme is structured
in 8 phases:
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Exhaustive inventory and analysis
of existing decentralized rural electrification structures and
associated financial mechanisms,
Study of potential renewable energy sources in the provinces,
Study of political, economic, social, demographic and geographic
contexts,
Integration and exploitation of the data, cross-analysis of
socio-economic and technical parameters and selection of the
priority zones,
Detailed studies concerning the selected zones,
Elaboration of electrification programmes,
Training of identified operators,
Dissemination of results
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