Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

TA 4649: Alternative Energy Supply for Rural Poor in Remote Areas – People’s Republic of China
Financed by Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

Project Summary

The TA will assist the Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (GIMAR) in formulating a strategy for expansion of alternative energy-based electrification in remote rural areas, including a strategy to improve sustainability of existing decentralized installations.

The will undertake the following:

1. review the existing GIMAR approach and policies on basic electrification;
2. short-list villages and households for socioeconomic assessment of basic electrification;
3. undertake a socioeconomic survey to collect data on decentralized electrification systems;
4. carry out analysis of the basic electrification approach;
5. analyze the impact of the ongoing subsidy scheme and recommend a mechanism to enhance the sustainability of rural electrification;
6. compare and contrast community-based centralized systems and household-based decentralized systems to identify the structure for rural community and household electrification;
7. identify mechanisms to promote community participation in design, and operation and maintenance of decentralized systems;
8. undertake rural energy resource assessment in short-listed villages to identify optimal energy mix for rural needs;
9. evaluate and identify an appropriate energy business model;
10. analyze and recommend a strategic approach to expand and intensify alternative energy-based rural electrification;
11. develop train-the-trainer program to extend maintenance services to remote dispersed households;
12. identify a package of policy and regulatory initiatives to create enabling conditions for proposed strategic approach;
13. examine possibilities of leveraging and integrating incentives through a clean development mechanism and global environmental facility mechanisms;
14. develop a monitoring and evaluation framework for TA outcomes; and
15. conduct workshops and seminars to disseminate TA results.

• TA Paper [ PDF: 118kb | 13 pages ]
• Case Study [ PDF: 80kb | 3 pages ]
• Consultant's Report