The U.S. Clean Energy Initiative

Powering Sustainable Development from Village to Metropolis The U.S. Clean Energy Initiative

Access to affordable, reliable, clean, and • The Global Village Energy Partnership (GVEP) efficient energy services is essential to will increase access to modern and affordable breaking the cycle of poverty and achieving energy services in areas either not served sustainable development. At the World or under-served by current energy delivery Summit on Sustainable Development, the systems. (USG lead: USAID) U.S. Government announced a new Signature Partnership for sustainable development – the • Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development (EESD) Clean Energy Initiative: Powering Sustainable will improve the productivity and efficiency of Development from Village to Metropolis. energy systems, while reducing waste and pollution, saving money, improving reliability, The “Powering Sustainable Development” and delaying the need for expensive new Initiative provides a foundation to meet generating capacity. (USG lead: DOE) President Bush’s commitment to alleviate poverty, support education and health • Healthy Homes and Communities (HHC) care, provide safe drinking water, reverse will promote clean transportation fuels the loss of environmental resources and (e.g. unleaded gasoline, low sulfur fuels), support the availability of new technologies and healthier indoor cooking and heating by revolutionizing the delivery of energy practices to reduce the estimated 3 million services to the world’s rural and urban poor. annual and readily preventable deaths The Initiative seeks to provide millions of associated with air pollution and unhealthy people with new access to energy services; patterns of energy use. (USG lead: EPA) increase the efficiency of energy, production, delivery and use; and significantly reduce readily preventable deaths and respiratory illnesses associated with motor vehicle and indoor air pollution. To achieve this aim, this U.S.-led, multi-year initiative has three parts:

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2 The Global Village Energy Partnership

Why GVEP Desired outcomes Objectives

• Approximately 2 billion people are • 400 million people and 50,000 new • Catalyze country commitments to energy- without electricity communities served poverty reduction in rural, peri-urban and urban areas • Women and children in many developing • Significant number of countries with countries spend 1/3 of their productive energy-poverty reduction programs • Bridge the gap between investors, life transporting fuelwood and water suppliers and users to mitigate barriers • Cadre of trained entrepreneurs to energy access • Current activities do not link to broader energy needs in agriculture, water, • Increases in productivity, incomes, • Facilitate policy and regulatory telecom, small industry, natural resource environmental conservation, quality of life frameworks for scale-up to engage management, gender equity, health private sector and civil society and education sectors • Implementation vehicle for Millennium Development Goals • Serve as a marketplace for lessons • Individual efforts to date have not been learned, best practices sufficient: weak political commitments and • Large-scale replication of innovative, market barriers, insufficient number of business, technical and financial • Create and maintain effective coordination enterprises, not enough information and energy models mechanisms among stakeholders lesson sharing, inadequate financing, insufficient accountability for results • 10:1 leveraging of U.S. Government funding • Provide access to cleaner, more affordable energy sources for productive, • The global needs are beyond any single social and consumptive uses including organization and require a partnership lighting, cooking and heating services of organizations – public and private – to meet global energy service needs

Case study – Urban energy access Goal In Ahmedabad, India, USAID is piloting a private sector – NGO alliance to improve Increased access to modern energy services electrical service to households living in informal urban settlements. In 2003, some 800 around the world households in four chaals (slums) were upgraded from illegal and unreliable electrical service for which they paid the equivalent of $5/month to illegal intermediate service providers. Households now pay about $50 for a legal connection. Local women are trained to read meters and to collect tariffs from households – for which they are paid by the city’s privately-owned electrical utility. The electrification of these communities has extended the number of hours that women can work, contributed to their ability to send their children to school, and provided their households with legal, safer, and more reliable electricity service. In addition, the utility has seen its unaccounted losses reduced to the industry standard of 10% in upgraded areas. This model is expected to ensure a long-term, sustainable solution to upgrade the living standards of slum dwellers. U.S. Government lead: USAID 3 Harnessing Energy for People, Productivity and Poverty Reduction GVEP

Partners Case study – Rural energy access

Over 280 donor governments, developing In the Philippines, USAID is developing off-grid renewable energy systems in 170 remote countries, international organizations, rural communities in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, through the Alliance industry and members of civil society for Mindanao Off-Grid Renewable Energy (AMORE). Through solar-powered battery charging stations and individual batteries for households and public facilities, residents are now saving 70% each month of what they used to spend on kerosene for light. Partners commit to Residents now have increased opportunities for productive activities such as mat weaving, sewing, extension of ‘daylight’ hours for study time and household work. The AMORE • Increase energy access and reduce Project is electrifying remote communities of conflict-affected areas of Mindanao, lighting poverty homes and hearths, and providing communities with economic incentives to achieve peace. In this era of globalization and advanced technology, no one should be left in the dark. • 10-year “implementation-based and demand-driven” program

• Advance market principles: energy sector reform, diversity of energy providers and funders

• Consider multiple technologies, sectors and delivery approaches

• Focus on the poor

• Coordinate with related activities (national, local, regional) and partnerships

• Agree to report on results

4 Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development

Why EESD Desired outcomes Objectives

• Three billion people have access only to • 20% energy intensity reduction in up to Assist host countries reduce poverty and get inadequate, unreliable and prohibitively 20 host countries ahead of their development curve through: expensive energy • Efficient energy projects in 20 countries • Leadership – Promote public leadership • In many developing economies, energy though community partnerships, projects demand is growing exponentially – • 10:1 leveraging of U.S. Government funding at public facilities, standards and labeling, energy expenses can be as high as 70% best practices, technical standards, and • Reduce the occurrence of blackouts and policies that spur demand for energy • Efficiency losses for generation, delivery brownouts in up to 10 major cities efficient products, services and and use of energy range from 20 to 50% technologies • Establish U.S. Community Partnerships • Even modest efficiency gains could free in up to eight countries • Finance – Facilitate locally managed up some $30 billion a year to address financial programs to attract affordable broader social and development goals • Federal Energy Management Plans saving and long-term financing and to scale-up at least 20% of central budget overhead projects that are ‘market’ driven based • Public-private partnerships needed to costs for improving public facilities in up on demand for capital and services foster clean energy projects, regional to 10 countries cooperation and integrated economic • Technology – Build capacity to access development • CLASP in up to 20 countries and adopt cleaner and more efficient technologies • Energy efficient building codes established Goal in up to 15 developing countries • Efficiency gains in energy production and delivery Improve the productivity and efficiency of • WATERGY in up to 20 countries energy systems, while reducing pollution • Modernizing industrial and and waste, saving money and improving • Financial facilities that support upgrades agricultural operations reliability through less energy intensive to 10,000 schools, 5,000 medical facilities products, more energy efficient processes and 10,000 low income multi-family • Project development and and production modernization buildings in 10 countries implementation services

• Technical and managerial assistance to local entrepreneurs

U.S. Government lead: U.S. Department of Energy 5 A Performance-Based, Market-Oriented Partnership Opportunity EESD

Partners Case study

Over 60 donor governments, developing In Mexico, DOE is closing the gap between sources of private capital and qualified energy countries, international organizations, and environmental projects. DOE is supporting the creation of funding mechanisms for industry and civil society energy efficient projects. The aim is to make capital more affordable and accessible, and reduce risk, uncertainty and costs for all parties. The goal is being achieved by addressing the structural or systemic impediments to financing clean energy and efficiency projects. Partners commit to DOE is working with the Mexican Government, the State Government of Monterey, the University of Monterey, NADBank, and The World Bank. • Improve energy efficiency and reduce poverty

• Develop new business and financing models for sustainable development and clean energy projects

• Promote integrated development by optimizing the forces of the new global marketplace (information, investment, technology) for economic growth, social development and environmental progress

• Form new alliances with governments, international organizations, industry and civil society to facilitate project development and coordinated programs

• Focus on capacity building and technical and managerial assistance

• Facilitate the adoption of energy efficiency standards, labeling and best practices

• Promote institutional and policy agendas to enable investment in energy efficient and clean technologies

• Monitor and report results

6 Healthy Homes and Communities

Why HHC Desired outcomes Objectives

• More than two billion people worldwide • Action plans for elimination of • Serve as a platform for exchange of use traditional biomass fuels for cooking leaded gasoline experiences and successful practices and heating, accounting for an estimated two million premature deaths annually, • Cleaner fuel and vehicle requirements • Conduct public outreach, educational primarily among women and children and commitments programs, awareness campaigns

• Air pollution in many cities in the • Phase down of sulphur in diesel and • Adapt economic and planning tools developing world is reaching crisis gasoline fuels for clean fuels and vehicles analyses proportions – motor vehicles account in local settings for a significant portion of this urban • Improved cooking and heating practices air pollution • Foster key partnerships between • Reduced exposures to elevated levels government, industry, NGOs of indoor pollutants Goal • Demonstrate and promote effective strategies for overcoming social/behavioral Reduce health impacts from motor barriers, developing local markets, meeting vehicle emissions and combustion design guidelines and monitoring exposure pollutants indoors and health effects

• The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air is increasing the use of affordable, reliable, clean and efficient home cooking and heating practices to prevent the premature deaths of an estimated two million people annually due to elevated indoor levels of smoke

• The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles is eliminating the use of lead in gasoline worldwide and helping developing countries reduce sulfur in gasoline and diesel fuels, while also introducing clean vehicle technology

U.S. Government lead: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 7 Healthier Energy Use from Homes to Highways HHC

Partners Case study

62 countries, private sector companies, In Mexico, USEPA is implementing both its partnerships under the Healthy Homes and oil and auto industries, NGOs and Communities initiative. The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles is collaborating with international organizations the Mexican government on a pilot program to retrofit older city buses with new emission control technologies and low-sulfur diesel fuel; and to help analyze the costs and benefits of reducing sulfur from diesel and gasoline fuels in Mexico, with a focus on the health Partners commit to benefits to Mexico. The Partnership for Clean Indoor Air kicked off efforts in Mexico by hosting a meeting with government and NGOs involved in indoor cooking and heating • Help developing countries to develop issues. Participants agreed to develop a Partnership strategy for Mexico, discuss potential action plans to eliminate leaded gasoline roles for each stakeholder, and explore ways to collaborate more effectively. and phase down sulphur in diesel and gasoline fuels

• Provide a platform for exchange of experiences and successful practices in developed and developing countries as well as technical assistance

• Develop public outreach materials, educational programs and awareness campaigns

• Foster key partnerships between government, industry, NGOs and other interested parties

8 Partners to Date

Governments Multilateral organizations Non-government organizations

Bolivia, Centro de Desarrollo en Energy Sector Management Program Action For Food Production Engineers Without Borders Energìa Solar European Commission AEA Technology Environment Protection Training and Bolivia, Ministry of Public Works FAO African Energy Policy Resource Network Research Institute Brazil, Ministry of Mines and Energy United Nations Development Programme Foundation Against Social Trauma and ERA Cameroun Brazil, Sao Paulo State Secretariat for the United Nations Environment Programme Environmental Ravages Fiorello H. LaGuardia Foundation Environment The World Bank Agency of Universal access to Services Forum One Communications Foundation Cameroon, Agence d'Electrification Rurale Albanian Ecological Club – International Against Social Trauma and Canadian International Development Agency Friends of Nature Environmental Ravages Denmark, Royal Danish Ministry of Aligarh Muslim University Foundation Against Social Trauma and Foreign Affairs All India Women's Conference Environmental Ravages Dominican Republic Ministry of Industry & Alternative Energy Institute Fundação Para O Desenvolvimento Commerce Appropriate Technology Center Tecnológico Da Engenharia Ecuador, Electricity Council of Ecuador Approtech Asia Future Energy Solutions Ethiopia, Geological Survey Australian CRC for Renewable Energy Gender and Energy Research and Training Ethiopia, Rural Energy Development and AVD/RIOD-AO Green Empowerment Promotion Center Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy Green Markets International France, Agence France de Developpement Bhartiya Dnyanpith Bahuudeshiya Gramin Grupo Interdiscipinario de Tecnología Rural France, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vikas Sanstha Wadgaon Apropiada A.C. Germany, Federal Environmental Ministry Biomass Energy for Rural India Project Haggai Philanthropy Centre Uganda Germany, GTZ German Technical Biomass Users Network – Central America HEDON Household Energy Network Co-operation Bureau of Environmental Analysis Hind Privileges Germany, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau International ILZRO RAPS Peru Ghana, Ministry of Energy Business Council for Sustainable Energy Indira Gandhi Institute of Developmental Guatemala, Ministry of Energy Honduras Carbona Research Dirección de Energia CEFA Tanzania Institute for Sustainable Power Honduras, Dirección de Energia Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Integrated Rural Development Organization Honduras, Secretary of Natural Resources Center for Renewable Energy and Integrated Sustainable Energy & Ecological and Environment Appropriate Technologies Development Association India, Central Board of Irrigation and Power Climate Institute International Center for Sustainable Italy, Ministry for the Environment and Club zur Laendlichen Elektrifizierung Development Territory Community Development Carbon Fund International Energy Initiative Lesotho, Department of Energy Community Orientated Sustainable International Lead Zinc Research Liberia, Center for Sustainable Energy Development Initiative Organization, Inc Technology Community Power Corporation International Solar Energy Society Mexico, Grupo de Estudos e Consejo Empresarial de Desarrollo ISL Desenvolvimento de Alternativas Energé Sostenible ITDG-Nepal Mexico, Ministry of Energy CRESP ITDG-Peru Pakistan, Ministry of the Environment Durban Institute of Technology ITDG-South Asia Peru, Ministry of Energy and Mines E+Co ITDG-UK Philippines, Department of Energy E5 Jerome Weingart and Associates Republic of South Africa, Department of East African Energy Conservation Alliance Joaquim Nabuco Foundation / Minerals and Energy East African Energy Technical Development Energia/Joaquim Nabuci Foundation Swedish International Development Agency Network Kadikoyu Friends of Science, Culture and Tanzania, United Republic of Ecotechnology, Mid-Sweden University Art Association The Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Electric Power Research Institute Kumasi Institute of Technology and U.K., Department for International Electrical Engineering Division Environment Development ENDA Light Up The World Foundation U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory ENERGIA Mali-Folkecenter U.S. Sandia National Laboratories Energia y Telecommunicaciones Andinas Management & Planning Organization United States Agency for International Energy and Development Research Centre Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust Development Energy and Environmental Concerns for Mbutu Agriculture Society ECOSOC UN United States Department of Energy Zambia MECON LIMITED Zambia, Ministry of Energy and Water Energy Forum Minerals & Energy Policy Centre Development Energy Management Centre Munasinghe Institute for Development Energy Management Group Natural Resources Defense Council Energynet Limited Nature Conservancy China Program Enersol, Inc New Mexico State University Engineers Against Poverty Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute

9 The Global Village Energy Partnership GVEP

Private organizations

NRECA International Ltd ABB Group P.T. Minaca Selaras OLADE Acumen International PA Energy Ltd Organization of American States African Energy Pace University Energy Project Pakistan Energy and Environment Agama Energy Ltd Parallax Sustainable Development Solutions Management Centre AHAssociates PFE Power Solutions Pembina Institute for Appropriate Al Tayyar Energy Ltd Preferred Energy, Inc Development APRODEST Prokaushali Sangsad Limited Persons Helping People/Solar Ovens Asia Credit Fund RAPS Consulting Pvt Ltd Pothohar Water Partnership BBRM Investments, LLC RAPS Finance Renewable Energy & Agricultural BD Consult Regulatory Economics Group LLC Development Foundation bilco consultants international REMEDE RITES Ltd Biodesign RenewableEnergyAccess.com Sandia National Laboratories BP Solar Ltd Sabraa Bank Saraswathy Shanmugam Public British Petroleum Sahyadri Energy Systems Private Limited Charitable Trust Canada ExSolar Systems International Inc. Schneider Electric Save Earth Nigeria CIRAD SELCO Save Environment Management Class Energy LLC Seth Willey Solar SEWA Clouston Energy Research SGA Energy Ltd Shakti: Energy Website of Bangladesh Conside Ltd Energy Consulting firm Sociedade do Sol Solar Development Group Consumer Energy Council of America Societe de Services Decentralisees Nuon Solar Electric Light Company CORE International, Inc EDF Solar Electric Light Fund CTSC Consulting Solamatics Solar Energy Network Cygnus Renewable Energy SolAqua Solar Energy Society of Central Africa Dasag Energy Engineering Ltd Solar Engineering Services Soluz David Suzuki Foundation Solar Household Energy, Inc Somali Association for Sustainable DESI Power: Decentralized Energy Solar Industries Association Energy & Development Systems India Ltd Solar International Management, Inc Sonnenenergie fuer Westafrika DG Development Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank Stakeholder Forum for Our Common Future Electricite de France Stean & Associates Business Development Stockholm Environment Institute – Elektroplan Consulting Engineers Services Boston Center Energy & Security Group Strategic Consulting Partners Sussex Research Associates Ltd Energy Conversion Devices SUN OVENS International, Inc Sustainable Rural Enterprise Energy for Sustainable Development Ltd Sunseed Tanzania Trust Sustainable Village LLC Energy Studies Application Institute Sustainable Energy Solutions Tangier Faculty of Sciences and Farmworks International Symbiotic Research Action Group Technologies Free Energy Europe U.S. Energy Association Tanzania Traditional Energy Development Global Sustainable Energy Solutions Pty Ltd Washington Liaison Office and Environment Global Transition Consulting World Water Tata Energy Research Institute Grameen Shakti Tellus Institute/SEI-Boston IMA International The Awards for Sustainable Energy Independent Consultant Trust for Voluntary Organizations India Power Associates Ukuvuka Operation Firestop Innovation Energie Developement UMA-Atlantic Forest Open University Integrated Energy Solutions Pvt Ltd Umgeni Water University of Las Palmas Integrated Research and Action for de Gran Canaria Development UNC/Technological Solutions for International Copper Association, Ltd Social Development Isofoton University of Zaragoza IT Power India US Hydropower Council for International IT Power U.S., Inc Development Lahmeyer International GMBH Utilities Planning Associates LEVON Group, LLC Utility Automation Integrators, Incorporated LGA Consultants Ltd/Sage Training Pvt Ltd Winrock International. N2solar World Energy Council National Environmental Consulting Xavier Institute of Management Nuon RAPS Utility Yayasan Bina Usaha Lingkungan Optimum Energy Senegal ORMAT International

10 Partners to Date

Governments Non-government organizations Private organizations

Australia Alliance to Save Energy AEP Botswana Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum Baker and McKenzie Brazil Business Council for International Understanding Biotechnology Industry Organization China Business Council for Sustainable Energy Canadian Energy Research Institute India Clark University Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Mexico CLASP (Collaborative Labeling and Appliance Standards Chevron/Texaco Philippines Program) CME North American Merchant Energy Florida International University – Center for Energy and Commonwealth Bank of Australia Technology of the Americas Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Global Environment and Technology Foundation Duke Energy Global Environment Management Institute Dupont International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives E-7 International Institute for Sustainable Development Edison Electric Institute Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Energy Conversion Devices National Academy of Engineering Energy Future Coalition National Academy of Sciences Environics International The World Federation of Engineering Organizations Environmental Business International US/China Energy and Environment Technology Center FE Clean Energy Group, Inc. Winrock International Gas Technology Institute Interlink Capital Strategies International Utility Efficiency Partnership National Mining Association National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Navista North American Development Bank North American Insulation Manufacturers Association Ormat Peer Consultants P.C. Resource Mobilization Advisors Southern Company Sparber and Associates Inc. Summitt Ventures, LLC Swiss Re The Dow Chemical Company Toyota United States Energy Association University of Monterey

The partners listed above are participating or have expressed an interest in working with the Energy Efficiency for Sustainable Development program. 11 Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development EESD

International organizations

Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum – Energy Working Group Bi-lateral Energy Working Groups – Japan, EU, Russia, China, India, Ukraine, Venezuela and others G-8 Energy Working Group International Energy Agency North American Energy Working Group OECD United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development United Nations Economic Commission for Europe The World Bank

12 Partners to Date

Governments Multilateral organizations Non-government organizations

Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles

Australia, Environment Australia Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Environmental and Energy Technology and Policy Institute Canada, Environment Canada Trust for Lead Poisoning Prevention Environmental Defense Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Environmental Liaison Centre International Central American Commission on Environment and UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) FIA Foundation Development (CCAD) Forum for Environment, Ethiopia Congo, Democratic Republic of, Ministere de Global Environmental Technology Foundation l'Environnement Conservation de la Nature, Eaux et Lawyer's Environmental Action Team, Tanzania Forets The Lead Group, Australia Ghana, Environmental Protection Agency Natural Resources Defense Council Guatemala and Belize Southern Centre for Energy and Environment, Zimbabwe Chile China Italy, Ministry of Environment and Territory Kenya, National Environmental Management Authority Mexico, Office for Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) Mozambique, Ministry for Coordination of Environmental Affairs Netherlands, The, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning, and Environment Nigeria. Federal Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Industry South Africa, Department of Minerals and Energy United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) United States Agency for International Development (U.S. AID) United States Department of Energy (U.S. DOE)

Partnership for Clean Indoor Air

Belize Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Appropriate Rural Energy Institute (ARTI) Canada UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Aprovecho Research Center Central America (Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, El UN Environment Programme (UNEP) CEDESOL - BOL Salvador, Honduras) Commission for Central American The World Bank Colorado State University Engines and Energy Conversion Development (CCAD) World Health Organization (WHO) Laboratory France Development Alternatives Guatemala ETHOS Italy Global Environment and Technology Foundation Mexico Health Effects Institute Mozambique HELPS International South Africa Indian Institute of Technology U.S.A. Intermediate Technology Development Group Proleña Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Shell Foundation UC/Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab University of Liverpool - Department of Public Health Resources for the Future Trees, Water & People University of WA Winrock International

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Private organizations

Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers American Honda American Petroleum Institute Association of European Automobile Manufacturers (ACEA) Association for Emission Control by Catalyst Association of International Automobile Manufacturers BP Products North America Inc. Engine Manufacturers Association Ethyl European Fuel Oxygenates Association International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC) International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Assn (IPIECA) International Truck and Engine Japan Automobile Manufacturer's Association Lubrizol Corporation Manufacturers of Emissions Control Association (MECA) Organisation Internationales des Constructeurs d'Automobile (OICA) Petrobras Petroleum Industry of East Africa, Kenya

LPG Association of Southern Africa Solar Household Energy, Inc. World L.P. Gas Association

14 For more information on the For more information on For more information on Global Village Energy Partnership Efficient Energy for Sustainable Development Healthy Homes and Communities U.S. Agency for International Development U.S. Department of Energy U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Gordon Weynand Larisa Dobriansky • Partnership for Clean Indoor Air 01.202.712.1864 01.202.586.1524 Brenda Doroski [email protected] [email protected] 01.202.343.9764 www.gvep.org [email protected] www.epa.gov/iaq • Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles Jane Metcalfe 01.202.564.6451 [email protected] www.unep.org/PCF