PUBLIC-PRIVATE ROUNDTABLE ON MINI-GRIDS

Clean Energy Ministerial at New Delhi April 17-18, 2013

Kavita Ravi AAAS Fellow U.S. Department of Energy

OVERVIEW: CLEAN ENERGY MINISTERIAL

Coalition of 23 governments to collaborate on policies and programs that accelerate the global transition to a clean energy technologies

>90% of Global Clean Energy Investment > 80% of Global GHG Emissions

Australia

Finland

Japan

Sweden

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OVERALL CEM STRATEGY

Overarching Goal: Accelerating the transition to clean energy technologies

1 High-Level Policy Dialogue

2 Technical Cooperation

3 Engagement with the Private-Sector and Other Stakeholders

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CEM CORE PRINCIPLES

• “Deliverables” are concrete and transformative clean energy initiatives led by like-minded and willing governments

• No expectation that each government participates in all initiatives

• No communiqué or other negotiated text

• Distributed leadership model

• Meetings are opportunities to assess and publicly communicate progress, as well as guide and strengthen the work of the CEM

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CEM GOALS

• Make substantive progress on the 13 CEM initiatives, which have the potential to: – Avoid the need to build more than 650 mid-sized power plants in the next 20 years – Bring improved energy services to more than 10 million people without access to electricity by 2015 – Promote rapid deployment of renewable energy, carbon capture and storage, and electric vehicles – Help encourage women to pursue careers in clean energy

• Maintain widespread participation and buy-in from governments accounting for more than 90% of global clean energy investment and more than 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions

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CEM MEETINGS

Meetings are opportunities to assess progress, engage the private sector and the public, and guide work under the initiatives.

Ministerials

CEM1 – Washington DC, July 2010 CEM2 – Abu Dhabi, April 2011 CEM3 – London, April 2012 CEM4 – Delhi, 2013 CEM5 – Seoul, 2014 CEM6 – Mexico, 2015

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CEM4 AGENDA

• Ministers will meet April 17-18 in New Delhi, India

• Closed-door government discussions about key accomplishments and opportunities for further progress

• IEA will present updated Clean Energy Progress Report, BNEF will present Clean Energy Investment Trends

Public-private engagement via roundtables •

• Innovation Showcase Pavilion: public-facing event

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CEM4 ROUNDTABLE

Discussion Format

• 90 minutes, 3-4 themes

• 20-25 Participants • 4-5 Ministers • 15-20 Private Sector Participants • Practitioners, International NGOs

• Background material provided to the participants

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MARKET BARRIERS TO MINI-GRID DEVELOPMENT

Concept of a CEM Roundtable: Focus on commercial scale up of mini-grids as a key component of providing energy access • Important opportunity to bring together practitioners and high level policymakers • Discuss barriers and synthesize the lessons-learned from demonstrated successes as well as past and current R&D efforts • Discuss actionable efforts going forward

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MARKET BARRIERS TO MINI-GRID DEVELOPMENT

Potential Discussion Questions

• What are the market barriers for the scale up of mini- grids? What are viable business and financing models for mini-grids that provide energy access with and without the prospect of grid-connection in the future? • What are the policies and regulatory frameworks that are required to support commercially viable mini-grids, in particular the renewable generation based mini-grids? • Are there technologies, load management approaches, standards, or other enabling factors that would creation cost-effective mini-grids for both consumers and installers?

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LINKAGES TO CEM’S GLOBAL LEAP INITIATIVE

• Global LEAP supports market catalyzing efforts in the energy access space • Global LEAP partner governments have provided technical support to the IFC’s Lighting Asia

program in India, which focuses on mini-grid business models • IFC India team is collaborating on the roundtable

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KEY CONTACTS CEM Roundtable Point-of-Contact

• Kavita Ravi • Email: [email protected] • Phone: 1-202-586-3612 Convening Partner

U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory • Kari Burman • Email: [email protected] • Phone: 1-303-384-7558

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