Adopt the following specific goals:
- Pro-Poor Focus: Improve access to and broaden
energy choices for households and rural
communities, including promoting the use of higher
quality fuels to the fullest extent possible.
- Renewable Energy: Use decentralized renewable
energy technologies.
- Rational Trade in Energy: Remove tariff and
nontariff trade barriers to increase international
competition and market access.
Encourage participation of SMEs (public, private, and
nonprofit) in the energy service business to facilitate
technological adaptations. Provide technical and
financial intermediation services for both urban and rural
markets.
Remove perverse incentives that continue the use of
highly polluting coal. Adjust prices to reflect total
impacts consistent with efforts to improve the efficiency
of energy systems.
Promote renewable sources of energy, such as the
adoption of improved cooking stoves or more
sophisticated biomass conversion technologies (for
example, linking biogas digesters to fuel cells). Look
for alternatives to fossil fuels in the provision of
commercial energy and to wood fuels for home energy
requirements.
Increase efficiency in the generation, transmission, and
distribution of electricity.
Improve energy efficiency through greater use of
resource-efficient materials, techniques, and equipment.
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