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ENERGYMEANS LIFE!

z ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATIONz ACCESS TO HEALTH AND EDUCATION

z ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

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Fondation Énergies pour le Monde p. 2

Where? Country programmes p. 4

What? On-going programmes z Burkina Faso p. 6

z Madagascar p. 8

z Senegal p. 10

z Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam p. 11

How? Noria or state-of-the-art choice p. 12

Why? Clearing the way to modern living p. 14

Who gets involved? Funding partners revolve in different circles p. 16

z Donation Form p. 16

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Today, two billion men and women subsist with only access to very limitedenergy resources such as a little wood for heating and cooking and candlesor an oil lamp for lighting…

Yet energy is what drives development.

Without electricity, classrooms cannot be lit or vaccines refrigerated.Similarly, pumping water, processing harvested crops or developingeconomic activities are out of the question.

Since Fondation Énergies pour le Monde was created in 1990, it hasdone everything in its power to bring electricity to those populationswho are deprived of it, and do so without resorting to dirty or costlyfossil fuels. It always acts by forging close partnerships with thepopulations and their representatives.

This brochure sets out the Foundation’s missions, programmes and philosophyand gives you insight into how the living conditions of the populations it assists are radically transformed by the arrival of sustainable, affordableand locally-managed energy. The spin-offs include gradual economicempowerment, successful schooling and lower levels of insecurity.

Fondation Énergies pour le Monde counts on your support to help it continueand develop its work.

Alain LIÉBARDPresident, Fondation Énergies pour le Monde

Word from the President


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FONDATION ÉNERGIES POUR LE MONDE


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The French Prime Ministerial decree of March 8 1990 officially recognisedFondation Énergies pour le Monde as a public-interest organisation.

It was created on the initiative of theObservatoire des Énergies Renouvelables.

Fondation Énergies pour le Monde has setitself the goal of stimulating the developmentof disadvantaged populations around the globe by bringing energy to them throughits programmes.

It favours all forms of environmentally-friendly technologies, objectively (includingphotovoltaic, solar thermal, wind power, smallhydropower and biomass energy).

It has developed facilities for:z conducting energy identification,

feasibility and planning studies throughNoria, its internally-developed powerfulexpert system (see p. 12);

z advising governments and territorialauthorities;

z training and offering guidance to localoperators;

z taking part in funding and conductingfieldwork geared to sustainability;

z organising communication, informationand awareness-building campaigns;

z gathering, distributing informationthrough its multimedia publications;

z attracting funding and technicalpartners to work together around a project;

z fund raising.

It operates in a wide range of fields: z rural electrification (collective

and individual household systems);z agriculture (water pumping, irrigation); z health (provision of drinking water,

lighting for health centres, refrigerationfor vaccine storage);

z education and training (lighting in schools,audiovisual equipment);

z family life (lighting, radio, television,telephone);

z employment (shop lighting, bringing enginepower to mills, sewing machines, etc.).


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COUNTRY PROGRAMMESOver the course of 20 years, FondationÉnergies pour le Monde has engaged in actionin 27 countries. Most of them are in Sub-Saharan Africa,where the needs are the most flagrant and energy consumption is the lowest in the world as less than 15% of its inhabitantshave access to electricity. Some thirty programmes have beenconducted, staggered over several yearsaround the globe.

z 1,000,000 people have benefitedfrom improved living conditions.

z Operations in 27 countries.

z 5,000 tonnes of CO2 avoided.

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ON-GOING PROGRAMMESBURKINA FASO

z Increasing the electrification rate of a province threefold

In Kourittenga, 100,000 people will benefit when solar electricityarrives.

Burkina Faso is a West African country wherealmost 80% of the population is rural and involved in farming activities. Only the main urban centres are electrified.Energy comes after food as the secondbiggest item of household expenditure, at an average cost of ¤9 out of their ¤65monthly income for the purchase of oil,candles and batteries.

Kourittenga province has 300,000 inhabitants,only 2% of whom have access to electricity.After three years of studies and consultationwith the local populations, their representativesand public authorities, 12 villages wereselected on the basis of their social cohesion,political stability and tangible economicbuoyancy (markets, shops, tradesmen).

The sites are too far away from the grid, but enjoy have ample exposure to sunshine.Hence photovoltaic solar energy is the preferred option. Some 1,300 individual

solar systems will be installed on thedwellings, shops and workshops to provideelectricity to 13,000 inhabitants. If thepeople using electrified public buildings suchas schools, health centres as well aselectrically-driven water pumps and publiclighting, etc. are taken into account, a totalof 100,000 people will benefit from the programme.

The financing package is innovative.It enables one single private regionaloperator to make a modest profit running the electrical infrastructures thanks to a combination of private- and public-sectorinvestments. The Burkina Faso Ministry ofEnergy, in return, will monitor the operator’sperformance with regard to its commitments.The local institutions and national bodiesresponsible for energy are in equipped toinspect the installations and service quality.

Only 2% of the inhabitants of Kourittenga province have access to electricity.

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Fondation Énergies pour le Monde’s experience

Fondation Énergies pour le Monde has been working in Burkina Faso since 1999. One major initiative is the “Energy Credit” launched in 2002, which awards loansfor the purchase of individual photovoltaic kits. To date, 245 families have beenable to take up these loans. In another scheme, the Foundation has installed 185 similar kits in two Kourit-tenga villages to increase the number of consumers, since 2005. Under thisscheme the users pay a monthly invoice that is pegged to their payment capaci-ties. Three years after the launch, the scheme was independently assessed. Theoperating methods were considered sustainable, suitable and understood by thepopulation. As a consequence of these first successes, a further 12 villages in the same area are to be electrified.

The Kourittenga electrification programme brochure is available on request.


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z Green electricity for 1 million rural inhabitants in Madagascar

MADAGASCAR

41 photovoltaic solar, 23 wind powerand 9 micro hydropower plants – the goal of this programme, which isthe biggest ever undertaken by the Foundation, is to electrify at least73 rural communities and double the region’s electrification rate.

The island of Madagascar lies off the Africancoast. It is mountainous with a surface area of587,000 km2, but its population density isaround 18,000,000 inhabitants. The nationalelectricity coverage rate is about 28%, but isas low as 5% in the countryside, which ishome to 70% of the population. Thesesparsely populated areas generally rely ongenerating sets to produce electricity, whichis an expensive, dirty and unsuitable solution.

It took the Foundation and its partners threeyears to study and select 73 communitieswith technically and economically viableconditions in the southern half of thecountry for installing renewable energysystems. One million people will benefitfrom the programme, for instance, throughthe electrification of public amenities(health centres, administrative offices,schools, etc).

The target communities are distributed overnine regions that present contrastinggeography, climate and economies. The mainsolution for the coastal areas will be windturbines, small hydropower units for mountainous regions, while elsewheresolar photovoltaic energy will dominate.These technologies are reliable and evenwithstand sand and cyclones. Furthermorethey can be sourced from established

Malagasy supplier-installers who will provideafter-sales service over time.

The Foundation held numerousconsultations with the relevant players to hammer out the organisational architectureon the supply side. Together they havedecided to assign the task of infrastructurebuilding and running for a group ofcommunities to a private operator. This isbecause the State’s electricity managementstrategy is private sector centred. The communities, for their part, prefer to deal with professionals on the groundrather than with administrative bodies.Lastly, the utility operator has a sizeable localnetwork enabling it to reduce operating costs.

On the consumer side, suitable paymentterms have been established to avoid socialinjustice. The pilot trial carried out in thevillage of Antetezambato (in the south of the island) demonstrates that very high(95%) recovery rates can be achieved if the tariffs are appropriate and the users are well-briefed.

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A MULTI-STRAND ENERGY PACKAGEThe Fondation Énergies pour le Monde has a long track-record in Madagascar. As early as 1997, it electrified some thirty dispensaries in Fianarantsoa province. It also installed solar pumps in twelve drought-prone villages. The programme,which was completed in 2006, brought good quality water to 17,000 people. One of the most recent projects to supply 186 households in the hamlet of Antetezambato,250 km to the south of the capital, involved installing a 42 kW micro hydropowerplant connected to a local distribution grid. As a result a farm-school, welding and repair workshop and other new activities have been spawned.

Doubling the electrification rate in Southern Madagascar.

The brochure describing the electrification programme in the southern regions of Madagascar is available on request.


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SENEGAL

z Reducing the energy gap between town and country…

The Foundation has been on the groundin Senegal since 1992, taking an active role in universalising the provision of electricity in LowCasamance.

A comprehensive rural electrification schemecovering the whole of the Low Casamanceregion in the southernmost tip of the countrywas set up at the end of a three-yearconsultation process applying the Noriaapproach (see p. 12). After a particularly successful pilot trial atDjilonguia, where family-sized photovoltaicsolar kits have been installed in100 households, supplying about 1,000 people,in addition to a school, health centre and eightpublic lighting points, the Foundationearmarked eight priority zones including88 villages in all, where the scheme was to be reproduced on a wide scale. The villagers injected their own impetus intoelectrification scheme and turned it to theiradvantage to boost the local economy withstart-ups (sale of chilled produce, craft trades,market gardening). An ad hoc management committee was set upalongside the elected deputies to run theinstallations and also ensure their sustainabilityover time. The project is managed by aterritory-wide collective and is a plank of the national access to electricity strategy.


The Foundation has been working in Senegal since 1992 with particular successstories such as the photovoltaic electrification of 40 health dispensaries, most of which are located in Low Casamance and the installation of solar pumps installed in 14 market gardens managed by women’s groups that have resulted in higher vegetable yields, and lightening the task of drawing water.

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CAMBODIA, LAOS AND VIETNAM


The Foundation has been in South-East Asia since 1995 working on dispensaryelectrification projects in Cambodia, and village electrification programmes andplanning in Laos and Vietnam. Currently two electrification schemes to set uplocal distribution grids are under way. The Phakeo scheme, in Laos, is suppliedby a small photovoltaic plant. At Sambour, Cambodia, a biomass gasificationplant produces electricity from farming waste (wood, rice balls).

z Rural electrification for 83 villages

The Foundation proffers a wide arrayof technological and highlyinnovative solutions in its drive toadapt to local conditions.

This programme is going ahead in threeMekong Delta provinces – Kampong Thom in Cambodia, Oudomxay in Laos and Dak Nongin Vietnam. In the first, photovoltaic plantsand biomass energy recovery are welcomeand effective replacements for currentbatteries. In a Lao valley region, a mix of micro-hydropower and photovoltaic is planned. In contrast microcredits are being granted for purchasing solar kits in Vietnam. A total of 8,900 families living in 83 villages acrossthe three countries will benefit – namely over145,000 individuals.

Brochures describing the Kampong Thom (Cambodia) and Oudomxay (Laos) electrification schemes are available on request (see opposite).


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NORIA OR STATE-OF-THE-ART CHOICEThe Foundation’s major programmessince 2005 could not have seen the light of day without resort to Noria, an in-house expertmodelling system developed using a proven method to ring-fence the conditions for programme success.

The selection of villages for electrificationcannot be left to chance, but is grounded in a methodical approach known as Noria(which stands for new orientations for making suitable investments). The acronym was inspired by the Egyptianbucket elevator that constantly draws waterfrom the Nile. The purpose-developed expertsystem has cast-iron powers of deduction, as it is fed with thousands of field data itemsand the aspirations of the populations and their representatives. Accordingly it is capable of identifying the mostconducive region for installing a ruralelectrification programme, along with the most promising villages, the mostappropriate technologies, and the mostcost-effective financial packages!

An electrification programme cannot succeedwithout the involvement of the populations.

How?


Noria has three complementary tools.

z Firstly, a set of databases, primarilygathered out in the field, by thememodule, from the broadest (nationalinstitutions) to the most detailed (such as users’ payment capacities), where allthe gathered data is stored and organised.

z Secondly, mapping softwareto cross-reference this data by location.Noria is extremely powerful as it canoverlay the data gathered on a single map,compare the selection criteria and mark outfeasibility zones for viable electrification.

z Lastly, computing software helps theFoundation define the right technology(solar, wind power, etc.) and the mostrelevant finance packages and type oforganisation (association, co-operative,private firm and so on) to optimise the chosen programme.

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Accurate field dataNoria processes two to three years of in-depthsurveys conducted by local engineering officesbefore it can deliver its verdict. The first yearis devoted to gathering generaldata–institutions, fiscal framework, economicand social context, etc. Selection criteria,identified in conjunction with the localauthorities are entered into the Noriasoftware. The system selects a number ofpriority zones by comparing data and criteria.

Next, the data collection work extends to thecircumscribed zone. The surveys cover thelocalities (accessibility, population density,energy resources, economic dynamics,social relations, etc). Then the Noria softwarepinpoints the villages that will accommodatethe programme to best advantage.

Lastly, the survey turns to a panel of potential users, who are interviewed in their own language about their energyrequirements, payment abilities and so on.Noria integrates these details and analysesthem before coming up with the most likely(technical, financial and organisational)application terms to ensure that theprogramme is a success.

The Foundation draws up the programmecontent from these soundly-basedconclusions that have been approved by thelocal partners. Only then will it submit theprogramme to lenders and potential investors.


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CLEARING THE WAY TO MODERN LIVING

Job creation, higher incomes, better workingconditions, academic success, lower infant mortality rates and less insecurity... once electricityhas percolated through to the rural environment it seems like a whole revolution.

Environment IMPROVING THE ENVIRONMENTDeveloping countries tend to have fragileecosystems. The harnessing of renewableenergies reduces the pollution caused by batteries, smoke, as well as transport and the use of oil. The rural electrificationprogramme in Madagascar alone will avoidthe production of 65,000 tonnes of CO2 over20 years.

EconomyDIRECT JOB CREATION Maintenance engineers, accountant,payment collectors and supervisory staff, etc.

REDUCING THE ENERGY BILLUsers lighten their outgoings by about 20%by exchanging batteries and oil forrenewably-sourced electricity.

MORE PRODUCTIVE TIMEHome-based, commercial and trade activitiescan be conducted after nightfall with electriclighting. The chance to earn additionalincome (craft work, agriculture, fishing…)contributes to reducing poverty.

NEW ACTIVITIES Farm produce can be preserved byrefrigeration or processed using electricalappliances. Traditional small-scale activitiesare modernised.

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Social EDUCATIONLighting and audiovisual media offer studentsand teachers better working conditions bothat school and at home. Attendance andeducational success rate rises can be quitespectacular.

HEALTHElectric lamps in the home put paid to usingcandles and domestic lamp oil, which areinflammable health hazards. Electricitybrings refrigeration power for medication andvaccines, the use of electrical medicalequipment and adequate lighting intreatment rooms.

ACCESS TO CLEAN WATERCovering a well and installing an electricpump at the bottom of it enable water to bedrawn while mitigating the risks ofcontamination.

SECURITYPublic lighting is an ally in combatinginsecurity primarily by reducing the numberof burglaries. Populations everywhere quotesecurity as being the benefit of electricity.

ACCESS TO INFORMATIONAccess to radio, television and internet opensnew windows to understanding the world.Recharging cell phones in situ makes externalcalls easier.

GENDER EQUALITYDomestic comfort and living conditions arebroadly improved, especially for women,opening up opportunities for developing craftbusinesses (basketwork, sewing, small-scalecatering and so on). At Djilonguia, Senegal,one group of women has had great successselling locally produced fruit juices andsorbets.

Over and above the advantages listedhere, the arrival of electricity marksthe pathway into modern living, and often triggers uplifting andsustainable development dynamics.


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FUNDING PARTNERS REVOLVE IN DIFFERENT CIRCLES

The Foundation draws on public- andprivate-sector funds and tends to form 3 to4-year partnerships to finance its fieldprogrammes.

Who gets involved?

Public- and private-sectorpartners

FRENCH PUBLIC-SECTOR PARTNERSMinistry of the Economy, Industry andEmployment • Ministry of Ecology, Energy,Sustainable Development and the Sea •Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs •French Environment and Energy ManagementAgency (ADEME)• Agence régionale del’environnement et des nouvelles énergiesd’Île-de-France (Arene)

INTERNATIONAL LENDERSEuropean Commission • United NationsDevelopment Programme (UNDP, New York) •Institut de l'énergie et de l’environnement dela Francophonie (IEPF, Quebec) • World Bank

FRENCH PRIVATE-SECTOR PARTNERS EDF • Crédit Coopératif • Total • Crédit AgricoleSA • Caisse des Dépôts • GDF Suez • Areva

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z you help the rural populations ofdeveloping countries expand theireconomies;

z you contribute to lower carbon growth;z you improve educational conditions forchildren;

z you improve the sanitary conditions ofrural populations;

z you give energy to those who aredeprived of it;

z you choose an organisation withrecognised expertise;

z you opt for a lean, public-privateorganisation that applies a locallyempowering approach;

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Your contact at the Foundation:[email protected]

FONDATION ÉNERGIES POUR LE MONDEPresident: Alain LiébardGeneral Director: Yves-Bruno CivelDirector: Yves MaigneGeneral Secretary: Nicolas Guichard

Photo credits: Rémy Delacloche, all except front cover: Amin Toulors (top left), back cover:Amin Toulors (top left), p. 4: Amin Toulors (centre), p. 5: Amin Toulors (centre: elderly ladyand young girl, top right: lady with straw hat), p. 13: Google Earth (top) and Fondation Énergies pour le Monde (bottom).

Reporting secretary: Emmanuel Thévenon

Graphic design: Lucie Sauget/Pop Agency

Translation: Shula Tennenhaus/Parlance

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