FRIDAY 4 JUNE: OFF-GRID DES OPTIONS
9:00 Off-grid DES in developing countries
Panel chair: Dan Kammen, UC Berkeley
・Distributed electricity services in Africa: The Sierra Leone perspective
- Jonas Redwood-Sawyer, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone
・Importance of implementation strategy and management arrangements for rural electrification projects: Case studies of solar lighting and water pumping projects in India
- Gemini Wahhaj, Princeton University
・Renewable energy water pumping
- Shannon Graham, UC Berkeley and SWTDI and Enersol Associates, Inc.
・Status and prospects for DES in Kenya
- Bernard Osawa
10:45 Coffee
11:00 Off-grid DES in Southern Africa
Panel chair: Douglas Banks, EDRC
・Introductory remarks: South Africa's off grid electrification programme
- Izak Kotze, DME
・Electricity demand patterns and load modeling in the South African context
- Marcus Dekenah, Eskom
・Distributed electricity service initiatives in South Africa 1998
- Leslie Anne Hummel, Stanford University
・An integrated approach towards sustainable dissemination of solar home systems in Namibia
- Lucy Wamukonya, EDRC, UC Berkeley
12:45 Lunch
13:45 Financing off-grid distributed electricity projects: Private sector potential and the role of subsidies
Panel chair: Deon Stassen, Development Bank of Southern Africa
・Bridging the implementation gap: the potential role of financial intermediaries in advancing renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Southern Africa
- Glenn Hodes, Princeton University
・The Chilean rural electrification program: Effective subsidisation of renewables?
- Andrew McAllister, UC Berkeley
・Renewable energy investment by transnational oil corporations
- Simone Pulver, UC Berkeley
・The dimensions of renewable energy finance
- Jeff Cole, UC Berkeley
15:30 Coffee
15:45 Standards setting for SHSs
Panel chair: Kefa Rabah, University of Nairobi
・Thin-film a-Si photovoltaic modules in Kenya: bargain or boondoggle?
- Arne Jacobsen, UC Berkeley
・Standards-setting for SHS and the Kenya PVMTI programme
- Jos a van den Akker
16:45 Workshop to define a role for world corps in assisting rural energy services companies
・Dwight Wilson, Collins Machyo, & Tariq Khan of World Corps
18:45 Dinner
