CAMBODIA: Kampong Thom - Results

Detailed studies of the selected zones

The objective of this task is to collect precise data, describing the local context of each selected village.

In a first place, village databases have been fulfilled in the 23 villages. These databases describe:

  • The demographical context;

  • The geographical context (map of the villages, types of houses, etc.);

  • The socio-demographic context (education and health infrastructures; description of the social cohesion);

  • The economical context (socio-professional repartition of the population, agriculture, market, period of economic difficulties);

  • The energy context (past experiences and electrification projects), including the assessment of the biomass potential available in the village (agricultural residues and land availability for growing energy crops);

  • An inventory of non-domestic users (social and community infrastructures, economic activities generating income) has also been achieved in the frame of the study

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Further to the completion of the village database, the priority villages have been scored basing on the following criteria:

• Accessibility,
• Economical dynamism: presence of activities generating income,
  of markets, etc.
• Social dynamism: presence of associations, development projects, etc.
• Good context: access to water, health care, education,

The 27 priority villages have been organized into a hierarchical order, according to their more or less favorable context for a sustainable development of an electrification project.

The second phase of the study consists in surveying a sample of users (domestic and non domestic users) to analyze the energy demand patterns in the selected villages, through the following aspects:

  • traditional energy uses,

  • energy demand,

  • monthly budget allocated to energy expenses, that can be substituted by electricity,

  • ability and willingness to pay electricity.

This study has been finalized and the results are presented here.