ACTIVITIES REPORT 2003-2004 international energy initiative To promote the efficient production and use of energy for sustainable development http://www.ieiglobal.org January 2005 IEI Offices IEI Staff President President c/o Princeton Environmental Institute Eric D. Larson Guyot Hall, Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 USA Phone: +1-609-258-4966 Executive Director Fax: +1- 609-258-7715 Gilberto De Martino Jannuzzi Email: [email protected] REI – Asia Executive Director Director: Antonette D’Sa in care of REI – Latin America Research Associate: K.V.Narasimha Murthy Regional Energy Initiative – Asia Research Assistant: B.T.Chandru 25/5 Borebank Road Accounts Manager: K.M.Basavarajappa Benson Town Office Assistant: G.Saravanan Bangalore 560 046 India Phone: +91-80-23538426 Fax: +91-80-23538426 REI – Latin America E-mail: [email protected] Director: Gilberto De Martino Jannuzzi Office Assistant: Andreia Maria dos Santos Regional Energy Initiative – Latin America Secretary: Maira de S. A. Camargo Caixa Postal 6163 Research Assistant: Rodolfo D. M. Gomes Campinas, São Paulo Legal Advisor (Pro bono): Ana Maria P.C. Jannuzzi CEP 13083-970 Brazil Phone: +55-19-3249-0288 Research Collaborator: Guilherme Queiroz Fax: +55-19-3289-3125 Research Collaborator: Edson Vendrusculo E-mail: [email protected] Research Collaborator: Thomaz Borges Research Student: Gheisa Esteves Regional Energy Initiative – Africa Research Student: Herculano Xavier (closed January 2004) University of Cape Town Research Student: Paulo Santana Private Bag Rondebosch 7701 Research Student: Godfrey Sanga South Africa Energy for Sustainable Development REI – Africa (through January 2004) 25/5 Borebank Road Director: Anton Eberhard Benson Town Research Assistant: Alix Clark Bangalore 560 046 India Secretary: Shireen Arnold Phone: +91-80-23536563 Fax: +91-80-23538426 E-mail: [email protected] Energy for Sustainable Development Executive Editor: Svati Bhogle IEI Board of Directors Technical Editor: K. Krishna Prasad Thomas B. Johansson (Chairman), Sweden Special Issues Technical Editor: Amulya K.N. Reddy Editorial Consultant: Anand Doraswami José Goldemberg, Brazil Editorial and Production Coordinator: U.K. Jayadev Stephen Karekezi, Kenya Amulya K. Reddy, India Wim Turkenburg, The Netherlands Robert H. Williams, USA Contents PRESIDENT’S FORWARD 2 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. GLOBAL ACTIVITIES 3 2.1. Protecting Public Benefits in the Face of Electricity Sector Restructuring 4 2.2. A Global Initiative on Fuels for Clean Cooking 6 2.3. Energy for Sustainable Development: the journal of the IEI 10 2.4. IEI’s Website Upgrade and New IEI Digital Initiatives 10 3. REGIONAL ACTIVITIES 12 3.1. REI-Asia 12 3.2. REI-Latin America 17 3.3. REI-Africa 22 4. PEOPLE 26 4.1. IEI Board of Directors 26 4.2. IEI Officers and REI Directors 28 5. ANNEX 1: IEI PUBLICATIONS FOR 2003 AND 2004 30 6. ANNEX 2: MEETINGS/CONFERENCES ATTENDED OR ORGANIZED BY IEI 32 6.1. REI - Asia 32 6.2. REI – Latin America 33 6.3. REI – Africa 34 7. ANNEX 3: CAPE TOWN COURSE DELEGATE LIST 35 PRESIDENT’S FORWARD IEI is an independent, international, non-profit, non-governmental organization that has been operating since September 1992 with the sole purpose of promoting efficient production and use of energy for sustainable development. It is a South-North partnership that is Southern-conceived, Southern-led, and Southern-located. IEI’s activities are focused on developing countries, taking into consideration the critical role of energy in economic growth, balance of payments, peace and security, gender and economic equity, and environmental protection. IEI is guided by the philosophy that energy is not an end in itself, but is an instrument of sustainable development: IEI identifies, analyses, and helps to promote and implement technical, financing, policy, and other solutions toward more efficient and sustainable production of energy services across all sectors in developing countries. The key overall goals of IEI are to 1) articulate and encourage acceptance of the paradigm that the level of energy services is the appropriate measure of energy development, rather than the magnitude of energy supply, and 2) catalyse increased delivery of energy services, based on a rationally determined mix of end-use and other efficiency measures, decentralized renewable energy sources, and “clean” centralized sources of energy. IEI operates through Regional Energy Initiative (REI) offices, each of which maintains links with energy actors from public and private institutions in its home region as well as in other regions of the South and the North. The REIs work in coordination with each other and with IEI’s virtual headquarters, the latter overseen by the President and IEI’s Executive Director. IEI currently maintains REI offices in Bangalore, India, and Campinas, Brazil. The REI-Africa office (Cape Town, South Africa) was closed in January 2004. IEI began the 21st century with a strong reputation and track record for unique contributions in regions where IEI has been active. IEI’s journal, Energy for Sustainable Development (ESD), was also finding an increasing readership in developing and industrialized countries. Anton Eberhard (based at the University of Cape Town), who had joined IEI’s Board of Directors in 1998, accepted IEI’s invitation to take over as President in 2000, with Professor Amulya Reddy, IEI’s first President, stepping down from these duties but retaining his position as a member of the IEI Board of Directors. Professor Eberhard oversaw IEI until January 2004, when he resigned to pursue other activities. Eric Larson (based at Princeton University) accepted the position of President for a limited period (until an individual from the South is identified to assume the position), and Stephen Karakezi (based in Nairobi) accepted IEI’s invitation to fill Anton Eberhard’s position on the Board of Directors. During his tenure as President, Anton Eberhard oversaw the transition of IEI from an organization working primarily on local/regional issues within each of its REIs to one that continues to operate at the local/regional levels, but has added to its portfolio major multi-year globally-relevant efforts undertaken as a collaboration among the REIs and/or among the REIs and outside analysts. One global project, aimed at helping to protect public benefits in the face of electricity sector restructuring, is nearing an end as of this writing, while another, aimed at accelerating the global phase out of direct use of solid fuels for cooking, is being launched. IEI’s budget has averaged about US$300,000 per year during the past five years, with grant funding generously provided by the Dutch Foreign Ministry, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (USA). In addition to this core IEI support, the REI offices also receive a modest level of project-specific sponsorship from other sources. The majority of IEI funding has historically been given as base program support, which has allowed IEI the creative freedom and flexibility to address issues of greatest relevance to its mission and which might otherwise have received insufficient attention due to lack of explicit funder interest. It is fair to say that IEI’s impact on the world has been disproportionately large relative to the size of the organization, and this can be attributed largely to the freedom and flexibility given to IEI by its funders, enabling it to make effective choices of activities. 2 1. INTRODUCTION This report describes IEI’s activities for 2003 and 2004. The Annexes list IEI publications and conference/workshop activities. The organizing framework for all of IEI activities, whether local, regional or global, is INTAAACT: Information, Training, Analysis, Advocacy, and Action. Most IEI projects contain several or all of these five elements. Information: IEI promotes information exchange to better inform energy actors throughout society regarding IEI-relevant issues. IEI seeks especially to encourage improved South-South and South-North exchanges, in part by responding to information requests and supporting existing information networks. A key element of IEI’s information mission is publication of its highly regarded quarterly journal, Energy for Sustainable Development (ESD), which is celebrating its 10th year of publication in 2004. Training: IEI seeks to create and grow indigenous technical, analytical, and managerial capacity to promote the efficient production of energy services for sustainable development. Training activities include providing fellowships to students training toward careers in IEI-relevant areas and running workshops to build local or regional capacity in areas of IEI expertise. Analysis: IEI seeks to generate new insights and understanding on a wide variety of IEI-relevant energy issues. Analysis is the core intellectual activity of IEI. Analysis activities support IEI’s information and training activities as well as advocacy and action efforts. Written outputs of IEI analysis are published in a variety of forums. Advocacy: IEI seeks to create demand for improving the production of energy services consistent with sustainable development. The target audiences for this effort are those who play roles in formulating energy paradigms, strategies, policies, plans, programs, projects, and decisions: energy consumers, equipment manufacturers and suppliers, energy companies, local, state and central governments, energy analysts and planners, national and international financial institutions, bilateral and