Public-Private Roundtable on Mini-Grids
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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 European Commission Brazil Canada China Denmark Finland France Germany India Indonesia Italy Japan Korea Mexico Norway Russia South Africa Sweden Spain United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States 2 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 6 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 7 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 8 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 9 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? 10 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 11 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 12 .