Sustainable Energy Access Planning: A Framework

By Ram M. Shrestha and Jiwan S. Acharya

Sustainable energy access planning, unlike traditional energy planning, gives primary importance to the energy demand of both poor and nonpoor households, the need to make cleaner energy services more affordable to the poor, the costs of both supply-side and demand-side access options, and the sustainability of technology and resource options. As such, this type of energy planning contributes to low carbon development and achievement of Sustainable Energy for All objectives. This report presents a framework for sustainable energy access planning that planners and policy makers can use to design cost-effective clean energy supply systems that both poor and nonpoor can sustainably access to meet at least the minimum amount of energy for their basic needs. The report discusses the multidimensional assessments involved in this type of planning, as well as their interlinkages and implementation issues.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Asian Development Bank
• Release date: Jun 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9789292549664

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SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ACCESS PLANNING A FRAMEWORK

Ram M. Shrestha

Jiwan S. Acharya

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Sustainable energy access planning—a framework.

Mandaluyong City, Philippines: Asian Development Bank, 2015.

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Foreword

The developing countries of Asia and the Pacific region face a number of stark challenges in their energy sectors: energy security, the interlinked issue of energy generation and climate change, and widespread energy poverty, with hundreds of millions having no access to electricity and billions more having no access to modern fuels for cooking or heating.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is guided by an energy policy that was shaped to respond to these challenges, and help developing Asian countries achieve a supply of energy that is secure, reliable, accessible to all, and clean to support the region’s continued transition toward low-carbon, sustainable development. Sustainable energy access planning (SEAP) provides a new framework with which to achieve that goal.

SEAP considers new options which traditional planning was unable to properly assess. SEAP allows for a direct and comprehensive response to the energy demands of the poor and the nonpoor alike, and links the issues of access and affordability together, to address those cases where poor families living within the range of the grid are nevertheless priced out of access to modern energy services.

SEAP researches and weighs a number of closely linked factors: resources, cost, benefit, sustainability, and affordability, to plan out the ideal solution for an energy access program of high quality, wide reach, and positive effects. It is flexible enough to cover the major concerns of access to electricity and modern fuels as well as energy for productive activities and mechanical energy applications, which include pumping water and milling grain.

ADB’s commitment to energy access is expressed through our Energy for All Initiative, which has guided our investments in energy access, and through our role as a lead organization and host of the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative’s (SE4ALL) Regional Hub for Asia and the Pacific. ADB, as part of SE4ALL’s global partnership, is contributing to the achievement of its 2030 goals, most notably the goal to provide universal energy access. This publication hopes to contribute to that work being done by ADB, and by all organizations seeking to maximize access to energy by providing an improved framework and assessment basis to shape responses and build better solutions.

This publication was made possible with the support of the Government of Japan, and guided by the expertise of ADB’s Energy Sector Group. I extend my thanks to them and to the authors, Ram M. Shrestha and Jiwan S. Acharya, for adding to our knowledge of sustainable development planning.

Bindu Lohani

Vice-President (Knowledge