Design targeted subsidies Support social entrepreneurs Finance ecosystem for poorest customers Invest in programs designed to create the required “infrastructure” for the energy initiatives Support favorable energy regulation Set quality standards to weed out sub-standard products Avoid market distortions such as the promise of free help Solidify relationships between public utilities and energy enterprises

1. Providing access to energy is at the
heart of the development challenge

2. Quick Low priced Solution

3. Allows the poorest to cook, lights
home work, and protects health
Envirofit cookstove
Improved air quality with clean cookstove
Global market of billions of
customers requires distribution
partners

4. Stove market price: $14 (IRS675)
Pellets for 1 week: $0.4 (IRS20)
Combustion efficiency
from 40% to 80%
Cooking and fuel gathering
time from 3h to 40hper day
Carbon monoxide
emissions down 98%
4-5 years life expectancy

5. B-1200 stove
market price: $17
Fuel consumption
reduced by 50%

6. Solar LED lanterns
Retail prices range
from $10 up to $35
The Solata prices: $12 to $20
D.light Design

7. SOLAR HOME SYSTEMS
Lighting, communication and income
generation for richer rural households
~20% upfront, rest monthly fees Financing scheme:
Microfinance or revolving funds, some household savings
solar panel (typically 10 to
50W)
A 12V battery to store the
power
A charge controller to
protect the battery
2 to 6 lamps (LED)

8. Needs addressed: lighting, cooking,
entertainment, communication and
income generation (working at night)
Grameen Shakti Bangladesh has already
built up 41 Grameen Technology Centers for
distributed assembling and servicing of SHS.
Currently they are training local technicians
who can take on future servicing and
installation of SHS at the village level
SHS priced at $140 for
10W system, $412 for
50W; $1,000 for 130W
Biogas Plants starting
from USD 187 for a 1.6
cum plant to $422 for a
4.8m2 plant
Improved Cook Stoves
at $11.76
>215k SHS installations

9. The Solar Energy foundation (SEF) promote
solar energy lighting in Africa with non-subsidized Solar Home
Systems
Financing: $80 upfront,
then $9 per month
for 3 years
~$7.5 monthly
households spending
replaceable
by ST10 power
Needs addressed:
household and
classrooms
lighting. Also
addressing water
pumping and cooling
systems for medicine.

10. Micro hydro plants owned and
managed by the community
100kW plant
costs $300k to
build Each
customer pays
$0.10 per kWh,
roughly $2 a
month
Beneficiaries: 60
villages; 300,000
people

11. FINANCING
• Facilitating the development of social
enterprises
• Grant-based support to build
the market
• Patient capital with energy sector expertise
• Carbon markets designed to serve
low-income communities

12. Recommendations
• Design targeted subsidies
• Support social entrepreneurs
• Finance ecosystem for poorest customers
• Invest in programs designed to create the required
“infrastructure” for the energy initiatives
• Support favorable energy regulation
• Set quality standards to weed out sub-standard products
• Avoid market distortions such as the promise of free help
• Solidify relationships between public utilities and energy
enterprises

13. Thank you
The Hystra / Ashoka team
This team was led by Olivier Kayser, with
Laurent Liautaud as day-to-day project
manager. Aileen Nowlan and Jean-Elie
Aron worked full time on this project
FOR MORE INFORMATION
• www.hystra.com
• www.ashoka.org/fec
• http://www.ashoka.org/sites/ashoka/files/Ashoka-
HYSTRA_Access_to_%20Energy_for_the_BOP.pdf