Contract number:

EIE/05/141/SI2.420262

Duration: from 01/10/2007 to

31/12/2007

20/02/2008

ANDEAN ENERGY HUB

ANDENERGY

ANDENERGY aims to support the establishment of the Andean Energy Hub and the enforcement of energy-poverty policies.The ANDENERGY partners are European and Latin American Universities, NGO, Andean Community.ANDENERGY engaged various actors, (international, national, and regional institutions, non governmental and civil society organizations, universities, etc) undertaking national and specific case-studies analysis (three regions and nine local communities). ANDENERGY identified many financial, political and technical actions to energize extremely poor areas in Andean countries.

PROJECT SUMMARY

BACKGROUNDA number of financial, regulatory and technical barriers keep excluding the

poorest (respectively in Ecuador 3.3, and in Peru 6.2 million people have no

access to basic services). Indeed the lack of basic energy services (cooking,

heating, water supply, lighting, communication, refrigeration) causes and

deepens a lower quality of life, poor medical care and education. The

addressed question is how to deliver basic energy services to rural and

marginal-urban areas in a sustainable and sustained manner.

The traditional centralized approach failed to energize isolated and

depressed areas for which the participatory process represents the ultimate

methodology. The proposed way to escape this trap is through providing

energy services in a case specific manner, avoiding the fallacy of one

solution fits (almost) all of the traditional approach.

OBJECTIVESIdentification of energy chains: market (policies and regulations, trade and investments), resources, conversions, distributions, demands and access.

Assessment and perspectives of energy chains: socioeconomic impacts, efficiency, implementations and strategies

Determination of main possible actions for the promotion of renewable energies and access to energy services for poverty alleviation.

Implementation of Capacity-building and technology transfer for the Andean communities’ members.

Integration of energy planners and experts.

RESULTS More than 500 pages of reports have been written and more than 100

important documents and 200 important contacts were collected, more than 90 visits, 8 field trips, 6 meetings-workshops and 2 final conferences were made.

Many ANDENERGY indications were applied by Ecuador and Peru governments. The Rural Electrification Plans now include Renewable Energy Technologies (RETs) systems and off grid projects indicating RETs as the best alternative and an analysis of current and potential RETs installations is taking off. In December 2007 the Peruvian Ministry of Energy published a technical guide for the installation of domestic PV systems.

The involved actors are implementing energy capacity building activities (conferences, courses, guidelines, etc) and demonstrative and research projects of RETs systems (micro hydro, solar thermal, photovoltaic, wind and geothermal systems; anaerobic digesters for humid waste, combustor and gasifier for dry waste, etc).

PARTNERS & CONTACTSCIRPS, Interuniversity Research Centre for Sustainable

Development, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. ITALY

IST, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, PORTUGAL

ESPOL, Escuela Politecnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, ECUADOR

CIDES, Universidad Católica de Chiclayo “Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo”, Lambayeque, PERU

ENERGY, Sección Energía, Universidad de Piura, PERU

CAN Comunidad Andina de Naciones, Lima, PERU

ECO Centro de Ecología y Género, Chiclayo, PERU

MUCHIK CORP S.A.C., Lima, PERU

CoordinatorFabio Orecchini

Piazza San Pietro in vincoli 10, 00184 Roma E-mail: fabio.orecchini@uniroma1.it

Tel: + 39 06 44.58.54.00